Indonesian Labour Migration: Identifying the Women

This paper is concerned with two main issues, Indonesian women working
abroad in the informal sector, mostly as domestic workers and the potentials
of other women stakeholders in addressing issues faced by women migrant
workers. This paper is written based on the assumption that an identification
of potential women at various levels and institutions may contribute to the
search for solutions for the problems faced by the women migrant workers
and that women should be seen as active actors that may contribute to the
problem solving. The identification in this paper has been able to identify the
existence of a number of prominent women migrant workers advocates, argue
for their existence in various parts within the labour migration system to
guarantee a protected migration for women labour, and suggest for the
widening of the scope and activism of these women migrant workers
advocates, in line with their movements across institutions.