At a regional labor summit in Bangkok, Indonesia placed before its ASEAN partners a question that cuts to the heart of modern migration: when crisis strikes, who is responsible for the millions who have crossed borders to work? Seven million intra-regional migrant workers — laboring in fields, on fishing boats, and in private homes — exist largely outside the protective reach of any formal emergency system. Indonesia's proposal is not merely administrative; it is a moral reckoning with the distance between the promises nations make to their citizens and the reality those citizens face when dis
Indonesia Pushes ASEAN for Unified Migrant Crisis Safety Net
Millions of migrant workers lack emergency access to consular support, shelters, and safe evacuation during crises, with maritime crews at particular risk of abandonment.