The Return of Indonesian Workers from Overseas, A Threat?

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In many social media groups, a lot of information that a large number of Indonesian workers abroad are now choosing to return to Indonesia. Actually this is not a problem, if they do not return when the Covid-19 virus pandemic case.

However, because it occurs in a situation like this, the return of workers from abroad is a new threat to the community. Moreover those who returned from a country that had many Corona cases.

I have heard firsthand the expression of a regent in Aceh. He said he was worried about the large number of workers returning from Malaysia. In his area, there are around 450 workers reportedly have returned.

But of this amount, only a few were successfully detected and then carried out checks and isolation. Because many workers are overwhelming, do not want to follow the rules of handling Corona from the government, now the police are even more strict.

The police require workers who have just returned from abroad to isolate themselves independently when they arrive in the country in anticipation of the spread of the corona virus. If they do not isolation they self, the police will ensnare them with a criminal. This was applied since 4 April.

The head of the Indonesian police asked the criminal investigation squad (reskrim) police throughout Indonesia to be asked to coordinate with stakeholders related to the repatriation of migrant workers from abroad. Some of them, such as health quarantine providers, BPBD, Health Office, and Quarantine Service.

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At the port entrance, airports, cross-border posts, must accompany health workers to carry out checks on newly arrived passengers.

In this case, Idham stressed that the procedures for handling health care for the migrant workers must be carried out in accordance with Law 6/2018 on Health Quarantine.

Every passenger with ODP status is also required to undergo a period of independent isolation when arriving at the destination. Later, supervision will be carried out by officials of the destination area who are accompanied by police officers.

If the procedures stipulated by the government are not carried out by the migrant worker, the National Police Chief requests that his staff can proceed legally.

If violations are found in accordance with articles 90 to 93 of Law No. 6 of 2018 concerning health quarantine, and can be carried out by police investigators or PPNS.

Previously, the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI) noted there were 32,192 Indonesian workers (TKI) returning from countries affected by corona or Covid-19.

In a written statement, BP2MI Deputy Protection Anjar Prihantoro said they were part of 33,503 migrant workers returning from 85 placement countries until 29 March 2020.

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The majority work in Malaysia with 11,566 people, Hong Kong 9,075 people, Taiwan 5,487 people, Singapore 2,799 people, and Brunei Darussalam 889 people.

In addition, there were 888 migrant workers returning from Saudi Arabia, 756 from South Korea, 641 from Italy, 46 from Japan, and 45 workers returning from the United States.

In addition, a number of areas which were the locations of returning migrant workers had also required the isolation to be carried out independently for 14 days, counting from the return.