SEANF Paper on Migrant Workers its coordination mandate. The SEANF also calls on the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to develop more effective mechanisms to monitor Indonesian migrant workers toiling in foreign countries, such as a database of workers, and ensure information contained in these systems is kept up to date. 78. In countries where there are significant numbers of Indonesian migrant workers, the SEANF urges the Government to establish (1) migrant assistance officers who are required to assist and protect migrant workers and (2) shelters to protect Indonesian migrants in crisis, staffed with personnel with appropriate counseling and other support skills. For this work, the Government should provide clear authority and adequate budgetary and personnel support. 79. The SEANF urges the Government to launch a comprehensive community-level information campaign to educate intending migrant workers (especially in areas of Indonesia which send many workers overseas) about their rights and responsibilities in foreign countries. The campaign should be planned and implemented in close collaboration with trade unions, NGOs and communitybased organizations as well as National Human Rights Institutions. 80. The SEANF calls on the Government to earnestly develop and implement job creation, social protection, and decent work programs that will have the effect of promoting sufficient livelihoods that allow Indonesians to remain in their homes, thereby reducing the need for them to migrate. 81. The SEANF urges the National Government of Indonesia to enact local regulation started from province to village for preventing forced labour and human trafficking. B. Malaysia The SEANF makes the following recommendations to the Government of Malaysia: 82. 38 The SEANF calls on the Government of Malaysia to undertake an immediate review of all its laws related to migration, and make revisions to bring those laws into compliance with all of the UN and ILO Conventions to which Malaysia is

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