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Fri, 01/08/2010 - 19:27
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FOREIGN MINISTRY TO IMPROVE MIGRANT WORKERS` PROTECTION SERVICES
Jakarta, Jan 8 (ANTARA) - The Foreign Affairs Ministry will strive to improve its services to protect Indonesian migrant workers abroad in 2010, Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa said.
"Indonesia's foreign ministry along with other related government agencies will set up a better legal framework to ensure that migrant workers' rights are respected properly," the minister said in his annual press statement here Friday.
He said migrant workers were contributing significantly to the national economy during their employment abroad.
Last December 2009, Indonesia had declared its commitment to be a party to the UN convention on protection of migrant workers.
"We are preparing the academic draft (of the necessary regulations)," the foreign affairs ministry`s director general of human rights, Harkristuti Harkrisnowo, said.
Harkristuti said Indonesia was making preparations to ratify the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families.
Indonesia`s plan to ratify the convention was part of the 2009 National Action Plan on Human Rights, she said.
In the near future, Indonesia would become a party to the UN convention, she said.
All processes related to the country`s plan to ratify the convention would be discussed at an inter-departmental meeting because the matter was included in the National Action Plan on Human Rights, she said.
Although the discussions would involve a number of ministries, the main role in the effort to ratify the convention would be assumed by the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry, she said.
Indonesia signed the convention in September 2004.***
"Indonesia's foreign ministry along with other related government agencies will set up a better legal framework to ensure that migrant workers' rights are respected properly," the minister said in his annual press statement here Friday.
He said migrant workers were contributing significantly to the national economy during their employment abroad.
Last December 2009, Indonesia had declared its commitment to be a party to the UN convention on protection of migrant workers.
"We are preparing the academic draft (of the necessary regulations)," the foreign affairs ministry`s director general of human rights, Harkristuti Harkrisnowo, said.
Harkristuti said Indonesia was making preparations to ratify the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families.
Indonesia`s plan to ratify the convention was part of the 2009 National Action Plan on Human Rights, she said.
In the near future, Indonesia would become a party to the UN convention, she said.
All processes related to the country`s plan to ratify the convention would be discussed at an inter-departmental meeting because the matter was included in the National Action Plan on Human Rights, she said.
Although the discussions would involve a number of ministries, the main role in the effort to ratify the convention would be assumed by the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry, she said.
Indonesia signed the convention in September 2004.***
