ndonesians attempting to work overseas have been hampered with bureaucratic red tape, forcing them to work undocumented in foreign countries.
The World Bank report, titled “Migrating to Opportunity: Overcoming Barriers to Labor Mobility in Southeast Asia,” addressed the complications in Indonesia’s bureaucracy that people face when wanting to work overseas.
The report’s lead author, Mauro Testaverde, said on Monday that Indonesians need to take more than 10 steps when completing the paperwork required to work abroad.
“In Indonesia [...] migrant workers, in order to formally migrate, need to go through twice the number of procedures compared to other Southeast Asian countries, and it is increasing the amount of time they spend to be formally documented,” Testaverde, who is also the World Bank’s economist for the social protection and labor unit, said.
The cluttered procedures were a contributing factor to the amount of undocumented Indonesian workers abroad.
This was further complicated as more than 90 percent of Indonesian migrant workers had not completed their secondary education, the World Bank found.
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