The Efforts to Reduce Forced Labor and Human Trafficking of Indonesian Migrant Workers on Foreign Vessel

Human rights violations experienced by Indonesian workers in the fishing sector, occurring on foreign vessels, is the result of the weak employment recruitment system and its regulation. To address such problem, strengthening the recruitment process should be carried out internally and externally by the parties who are competent and authorized in each field. Therefore, this policy brief has three policy options to offer to the government to respond such problem, encompassing: 1) tightening the labor recruitment licensing system by non-governmental recruitment agencies; 2) ratifying the c188; 3) implementing the integrated database in fishing sector on Southeast Asia region. This policy brief is addressed to BP2MI as the official agent for Indonesian migrant workers, which exclusively acts as an institution of granting permission for labor recruitment companies and placing them on foreign vessels in the commercial fisheries sector.