Indonesia's overseas labour migration programme, 1969-2010
By: by Wayne Palmer
Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde -- 307; Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde -- 307.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9789004325449; 9789004325487
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Foreign workers; Indonesian Foreign workers; Government policy; Legal status, laws; Emigration and immigration; Corrupt practices
Other titles: Indonesia's overseas labor migration program, 1969-2010
Description: In 'Indonesia's Overseas Labour Migration Programme, 1969-2010', Wayne Palmer offers for the first time a detailed, critical analysis of the way in which Indonesia's Overseas Labour Migration Programme is managed and how that fits with other developments within the Indonesian government. Commonly portrayed as a corrupt bunch of officials out to line their own pockets at the expense of migrant workers' welfare, here we are shown that they also make exceptions to rules when the law and political climate are not on their side. Wayne Palmer used interviews with over 120 officials in six Indonesian provinces and three diplomatic missions in the Asia-Pacific region to understand motivations for corrupt and other illegal behaviour.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index.