G(irls)20
2019 Summit, Japan
Indonesia Representative
Eva Maria Putri Salsabila
Draft of May 721, 2019 by Edelman Indonesia
Theme Empowering Female Migrant Workers in Indonesia
Message One
“Voicing Female Migrant Workers’
Rights in G(irls)20 SummitFemale
labor inclusion and female migrant
workers landscape in Indonesia”
Globalization has caused major
disruptions in labor markets around the
world. This condition increases labor
Messages migration in a seemingly borderless
world but also causes a variety of
challenges for the workers, i.e. illegal
procedures and opportunities.
The number of international migrants,
and labor workforce worldwide has
continued to grow rapidly in recent
years.Note: Basically, here, she needs to
immediately hook her core cause to the
Summit cause.
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Message Two Message Three Formatted: English (United States)
“Continue helping to protect female
“Working across borders is the only (migrant) workers’ rightsElevating
waykey to attend to challenges facing the safety and rights of female
faced by female migrant workers” migrant workers will optimize their
welfare” (?)
To tackle the existing issues migrant
At Justice Without Borders – an NGO Formatted: Font: Not Italic
workers face in Indonesia, and to
focused on providing legal aid for labor
increase female labor inclusion, I will
exploitation and human trafficking, we
be working alongside college-led
seek compensation from abusers for labor
initiatives such as Hope Helps and
workers – primarily female migrant
Psychope.Note: Noted that she has a Formatted: Font: Not Italic
workers.Note: Here she can go direct about
very personal interest to attend to sexualFormatted: Font: Not Italic
what she is doing on a transnational basis;
violence cases and the female victims’
rights. But the post-Summit cause needsFormatted: Font: Not Italic
what she has learned so far and what she
can contribute to Summit leaders – the
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insights of all the problems and the
objective, which is to increase the
potential solutions that she has collected
female labor force participation in
are invaluable to be conveyed to the G20
globally. So, maybe the sexual violence
leaders
message is to be replaced?

The increase number of labor migration
around the world puts female migrant
workers in a more vulnerable position
and world leaders need to attend to this
matter more seriously in orchestrated
effort – the same applies for female labor
workers in general.s.
- In Indonesia, 2017 saw 50 sexual
violence cases from 195 reportsi
- Gender bias salary is prevalent in
Indonesia amongst labor
workforceii
 In 2017, global female labour force
participation reached 49.4%Number
of international migrant workers, esp.
Female iii
Supporting Facts  Labor Force Participation Rate in
Indonesia increased to 69.20 percent
in 2018 from 69.02 percent in
2017.Number of cases of violation of
rights experienced by female migrant
workersiv
 Her works in Justice Without Borders;
what she does
 Cases that she handles and solves
The aim is to provide trainings for the
existing volunteers of both
organizations, in order to educate
female migrant workers their safety,
rights, as well as opportunities. Formatted: Font: Not Bold
This project will improve their capacity
in handling caseworks, gender
sensitivity and case management.
(Edelman recommendation) the project
should also provide knowledge and
support for migrant workers and labor
workforce alike to penetrate the labor
market. i.e. how they can attain
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nation, how they can upscale their
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 xxx
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  According to BPS, in 2017 the female
labor force participation rate (TPAK)
increased by 2.33 percent to 55.04
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percent from the previous one, 52.71
percent in February 2016.vThe types
of violations and roots
Once the three messages are crafted, it would be easy to find/provide the supporting facts in each of the pillar kan

Draft of May 6 by Salsa

1. The issue that I’m working on

Globalization has caused major disruptions in labor markets around the world. This condition increases labor migration in a seemingly borderless
world. The number of international migrant worldwide has continued to grow rapidly in recent years. Indonesia, as shown from World Bank report,
has more than nine millions migrant workers in 2017. However, the lack of protection for workers and the weak power relation makes migrant
domestic workers, spesifically, vulnerable for violation of rights. In general, cases of rights violations occur at every stage of the labor migration
process: pre-placement, while working abroad and after returning (ILO, 2006). At the pre-placement, communities (even the ones that are proactive
in seeking information) still find it difficult to gain access to information about their rights and responsibilities as migrant workers or prospective
migrant workers (post-recruitment and pre-deployment). Most migrant workers are unaware of illegal recruitment traps or what conditions will be
faced in pre-departure training. Recruited migrant workers are often unaware of the name of the recruiting agent and who to contact in Indonesia
and in the destination country if there’s a serious dispute or other emergency (Human Rights Watch, 2005). The migration of women migrant
worker caused by limited access and control of women to life sources due to development policies that tend to be oriented towards global economic
growth and place women in impoverished situations. The lack of jobs accessible to women with low levels of education leads to the increasingly
squeezed position of women in difficult economic conditions (Solidaritas Perempuan, 2016). At first glance, this situation left the impression that
there is a shift in the role of women as housewives to women who are 'empowered' in providing for their families, where in fact this is one example
of how women are often used as the solution of every economic problem faced by the family, such as the object of debt relief, economic assets to
help families earn a living, including migrant workers to meet family needs. So what happens is an additional burden, because they have to take
care of the family and seek additional economic. Along with that, women migrant workers should be assured of the protection of work rights.
 2. What I Do
I Currently work in Justice Without Borders, an NGO that creates transnational lifelines to legal aid for victims of labour exploitation and human
trafficking. We enable victims to seek rightful compensation from their abusers, even after returning home. We work in four countries
(Phillippines, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong) and have three offices (Hong Kong, Indonesia and Singapore).

As the only home country based office, in Indonesia we focus on caseworks by directly communicating with clients, prepare the evidence and
case summary for litigation process in host countries and empower communities by doing paralegal trainings and outreach to other frontline
organisations. Last year only I’ve facilitate and assist trainings and/or case consultation in Indramayu, Cilacap, Ponorogo, Blitar, Lampung and
Wonosobo. My work involved a heavy amount of travel, but there’s nothing I love more than meeting front line orgs and listen to their stories.
Most of them are ex-migrant workers, but they are strongly motivated to help others so they don’t have to been through the same bad stuff that
the ex migrant workers did in the past.

In my extra time, I am now a steering committee in a crisis centre organisation that I co-founded in my college years, HopeHelps. It’s a crisis
centre for sexual violence victims. My job include ensuring that they work accordingly to the workplan and focused on their staff development.

3. What I’ll do Post Girls(20) Commented [AH1]: This in an incorrect way to write
the name of the organization/initiative
The issue i wanted to tackle is the lack of resource and training for frontline youth movement that deals with sexual violence. At the moment, the
law for sexual violence in Indonesia is very limited. This also impact the shallow perspective the society have on this matter and resulted in
victim-blaming and revictimization when there's a sexual violence case. There has been a lot of initiative on tackling sexual violence, however
the gap between the victims and the helpers (NGOs, Legal Aid Institute, Govt Institutions and Law Enforcements) as well as the stigma in the
society, make it hard for them to reach out for the help they need. Reflecting on the rising number of sexual violence in the campus, there's been
an initiative for the students who wanted to be active bystander and create a crisis centre for the university members. However they don't have
the network, know-how and knowledge to professionally help them. That's why my project will provide trainings from professional network to
teach them the ways to deal with sexual violence cases. Colliding the passionate heart of the youth movement with the wisdom and experience
from the adults will lead to a insightful and productive learning session that supply the front- liners (students) to help others in a better, more
efficient and productive way.
My project will assist two frontline organisations directly, 'Hope Helps' and 'Psychope' as a crisis centre and first psychological aid organisation.
Both of the organisations are initiated by the students. This project will improve their capacity in handling caseworks, gender sensitivity and case
management. Indirectly, my project will also help academicians and other university of Indonesia members, who have experienced sexual
violence, as my project will improve the frontline organisations that helped them.

i https://www.cnnindonesia.com/nasional/20180430092942-20-294602/segelintir-potret-buruh-perempuan-indonesia Formatted: English (United States)

ii https://finance.detik.com/berita-ekonomi-bisnis/d-4293408/upah-buruh-wanita-dari-tahun-ke-tahun-masih-di-bawah-pria
iii https://www.g20-insights.org/policy_briefs/gender-economic-equity-achieving-25-by-25-actions-to-make-womens-labour-inclusion-a-g20-priority/
Formatted: English (United States)
iv https://tradingeconomics.com/indonesia/labor-force-participation-rate
v https://www.jawapos.com/ekonomi/30/11/2017/kesetaraan-gender-di-dunia-industri-jumlah-pekerja-perempuan-naik/
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