The Indonesian Economic and Trade Office to Taipei (IETO) has called on white-collar Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan to officially register in an online system to receive the same benefits extended to blue-collar Indonesian workers.
IETO yesterday held an event to publicize a pilot program that was initiated on Oct. 17 to encourage white-collar workers to register in the system set up by the Agency for the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BP2MI).
In doing so, Indonesians who hold professional foreign worker status can access the same benefits as Indonesians engaged in manual labor, IETO Deputy Representative Zulmartinof said at the event.
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These include Indonesian migrant workers’ social security coverage and US$500 exemptions in customs duties when they send or carry goods back to Indonesia up to three times a year, Zulmartinof said.
Under the Law of the Republic of Indonesia on the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers passed in 2017, all Indonesian migrant workers are required to be registered in the BP2MI system, he said.
By registering overseas workers, the Indonesian government can better provide migrant workers with assistance in the event of work-related incidents, health issues or death, Zulmartinof said.
However, until now the Indonesian government had mostly focused on registering manual workers who “required more attention,” he said.
Indonesia has the third highest number of white-collar workers in Taiwan, after Malaysia and Japan, and if the pilot program proves successful, the Indonesian Ministry of Labor would implement similar programs in other countries, he said.
So far, only 19 Indonesian professional workers have been registered out of 5,947 of such workers in Taiwan, the office said.
Most of these white-collar workers acquired the status of “professional foreign worker” after they graduated from a Taiwanese university or graduate institution, the office said in a statement.
They work in Taiwan’s engineering, higher education, journalism, translation and hospitality sectors, among others, the office said.
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