The Overlooked Soft Power of Indonesia's Post-UNCMW

• Author: Pranoto Iskandar - François Crépeau
• Position: Institute for Migrant Rights, Cianjur, Indonesia - McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism, Montreal, Canada
• Pages: 371-372

e Indonesian Journal of International & Comparative Law

ISSN: 2338-7602; E-ISSN: 2338-770X

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© 2014 e Institute for Migrant Rights Press

ICIJL’s Note

thE ovErlookEd soft powEr of

indonEsia’s post-unCmw

Pranoto Iskandar & François Crépeau

Institute for Migrant Rights, Cianjur—Indonesia

McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism, Montreal—Canada

E-mail: pranotoi@imr.or.id

Indonesia’s ratication of the International Convention on the Rights of

All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (ICMW) is a laud-

able step for the promotion and protection of human rights in South-

east Asia. It signals Indonesia’s intention to take better care of the rights

of Indonesian workers abroad, as well as of the rights of non-citizens in

Indonesia. It could herald Indonesia’s willingness to increase its social

and political engagement on the protection of human rights generally.

Indonesia can now go further and take concrete steps in three dierent

directions, domestic, regional and international.

At the domestic level, Indonesia could bank on its social diversity and

take advantage of its multilayered political system: central government,

regional administrations and cities should start to collaborate towards

the elaboration of a “national plan on migration management”, which