Protection of Migrant Workers From Upstream to Downstream Through “Peduli Buruh Migran” Villages (Desbumi): Study at Kuripan Village, Central Java and Nyerot Village, West Nusa Tenggara

Abstract

The high Number of Indonesian migrant workers (IMWs)workingin abroad, in facts, is not supported by adequate government protections. Due to BNP2TKI Crisis Center data of 2016, there are at least 27 thousand casesfaced by IMWs working in many countries all over the world. According to the research results conducted Wulan (2011), problems faced by IMWs in the destination countries, 80 percent of those come from villages. A village actually has strategic roles to becomes a foundation of safe migrations since villages arethe first exit doorsforpotential IMWs. The government negligence in protecting IMWs eventually results in village constructive fights to protect their people. IMWs protection is realized in migrant workers caring villages initiated by some villages such as inKuripan Wonosbo Central Java and Nyerot Lombok West Nusa Tenggara; Qualitative method is used in this research by having deep interviews, observation, andfocus group discussion with head of Desbumi\u27s village, village goverment.The results show that the existence of Desbumi can be a model of IMW\u27s protection from upstream to downstream and it means that the state present in the protection of IMWs