Proceedings of the 4th Social and Humanities Research Symposium (SoRes 2021)

Legal Protection for Indonesian Migrant Workers During Pandemic Covid 19

The Case from Human Right Approach

Authors
Rini Irianti Sundary*, Deddy Effendydeddiefendi@gmail.com, Chepy Ali Firmanchepialifirmanzakaria@gmail.com
Faculty of Law, Universitas Islam Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia
Haidar Dziyauddinhaidar@uitm.edu.my, Haswira Nor Muhammad Hasyimhaswira648@uitm.edu.my
UITM Malaysia, Shah Alam, Malaysia
Chandra Manungsa Alitmanungsa@gmail.com
Faculty of Law, Universitas Islam Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia
Corresponding Author
Rini Irianti Sundary
Available Online 23 April 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220407.071How to use a DOI?
Keywords
legal; protection; migrant; workers
Abstract

Covid-19 has implications for all aspects of life, changing various social and life structures in Indonesia, and in various countries around the world. The Indonesian state has the responsibility to provide protection to migrant workers who are abroad. The case highlighted here is Indonesian migrant workers, in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Migrant workers are often the first to get the consequences of a condition, but the latter get access to protection. Likewise, in this pandemic period, migrant workers are most affected by it, but the government’s response is not as fast as the consequences that befall them. The research method used is the normative juridical research method, which is a method that examines legal symptoms that occur based on legal theories or concepts, based on literature searches, statutory regulations, plus interviews with parties who are considered competent with the problem researched. The result of this research is Protection of Indonesian migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic from the Indonesian government has basically been carried out with various efforts, including by helping to provide health protection for Indonesian migrant workers abroad through the Social Security Administering Agency (BPJS) or the repatriation of migrant workers. both working legally and illegally.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th Social and Humanities Research Symposium (SoRes 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
23 April 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-570-1
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220407.071How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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