Many Polman migrant workers marry without documents

Polewali Mandar, Sulbarkita.com-Department of Manpower and Transmigration (Disnakertrans) Polewali Mandar found that many Indonesian migrant workers (TKI) from Polman were married without documents abroad. This finding is worrying because it will have an impact on the status of the migrant workers themselves and their children.

"From the reports we received without documents, there were many in Malaysia. "Most Indonesian migrant workers from Polman are in Malaysia, reaching 12 thousand people," said the Head of the Manpower Division at the Manpower Office of Polman, Indar Jaya, to Sulbarkita.com in his office on Monday.

According to Indar, many of them have reproduced there. Some even never set foot in Polman because their parents did not go home.

These conditions make them easily exposed to the law of marriage abroad. Even the descendants of the government are difficult to monitor because they do not have an official identity such as a birth certificate. As a result, the offspring of TKI Polman who are married without these documents can be illegal.

Indar said the Manpower and Transmigration Office of Polman had tried to find a solution to overcome the problem. One of them was by directly visiting the migrant workers in Malaysia some time ago. They were helped to take care of their marriage documents.

However, Indar admitted that he had a new obstacle, that most of the migrant workers were illegal. So that it is difficult for Disnaker to take care of it at the Indonesian Embassy. "As many as 70 percent of them are illegal," he said while claiming he was trying to find a solution to the problem.

Difficulties in Managing Marriage Documents

TKI Polman chooses to get married without documents in LN also not without reason. They are mostly difficult to fulfill administrative requirements that are applied abroad.

Eni (pseudonym), a household assistant who had worked 10 years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia said that official marriage to LN needed time, money, and high energy. Because prospective brides must go back and forth to the Indonesian Embassy (KBRI) to complete the conditions. "I experienced this when I married a local citizen in Riyadh," he told Sulbarkita.com.

Eni said that the conditions included having to have an official marriage permit from parents, making a letter from the local court, and the Indonesian embassy, ​​"I was forced to return to Polman to complete the document," he said. But the effort paid off, both of Eni's children have now become Indonesian citizens by obtaining a birth certificate from the Polman Regional Government.

AHMAD G.