The Productive Migrant Village Program (Desmigratif), used as a concept to manage villages of migrant workers in an integrated manner, applies four main pillars to protect Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI), Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah said.
Desmigratif is a program by the Manpower Ministry made to manage villages of migrant workers in an integrated manner. The efforts involve relevant ministries and institutions to empower, protect, and serve migrant workers and their families, starting from the villages scope.
“Desmigratif is applied with four main pillars, namely opening migration services in villages, developing productive businesses, facilitating creation of family development communities or community parenting, and facilitating the growth of cooperatives or village-owned enterprises,” Minister Fauziyah noted qt an event held to commemorate the International Migrant Day 2022 in East Lombok District, West Nusa Tenggara, on Sunday.
She informed that regarding the first pillar, the ministry has formed the Migration Service Centers in villages to serve migrant workers and those wanting to work abroad. The centers provide information on job market, job guidance, and migrant workers data verification.
Among the services provided are creation of documents based on personal needs; assistance for migrant workers’ troubled families; and data collection on village community migration before and after working abroad.
The efforts will involve the village administrators.
The second pillar is intended to create an independent and productive society geared towards entrepreneurship by conducting training, developing productive business innovations, utilizing the application of appropriate technology, providing business facility assistance, business incubation, marketing entrepreneurial products through institutional collaboration.
“Moreover, the Manpower Ministry also helps improve village facilities through labor intensive and facilitation of volunteer labor assistance, in order to facilitate community access and efficiency in running the economy in rural areas,” she informed.
In the third pillar, the ministry aims to inform the community that children’s education is not only sourced from their biological parents. Society is also obliged to care for children regardless of their biological status, especially for children of migrant workers.
The efforts to meet these ends must be made through guidance and counseling, providing guidance on financial management.
For example, the community can assist these children in reading, writing, arithmetic, arts, sports, healthy internet, or spirituality. The ministry itself has also collaborated with its stakeholder to create modules on community parenting for caregivers and these children.
As for the last pillar, Ida stated that to rebuild the nation’s culture, one must go through mutual cooperation economically to facilitate access business capital, working capital, and at the same time protect the migrant workers from the restrains of loan sharks or brokers who put their lives in difficult situation.
Source: Antara News