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Abstract

International migration from Indonesia is dominated by labor migration and a significant share of unauthorized migration and female migration. The Center for Overseas Employment and the Ditjen Binawas Depnaker, Direktorat Jenderal Pembinaan dan Pengawasan Ketenagakerjaan are in charge of Indonesian overseas labor migration. The Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration is responsible for collecting data on stock estimates of immigrants and emigrants, annual inflows and outflows, and characteristics of immigrants and emigrants. The Bank of Indonesia and the Ministry of Manpower gather information on remittances. There is no government agency which collects information on return migration. The publication of detailed reports and electronic accessibility of data can further improve data dissemination on international migration.

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