JAKARTA - Indonesia’s Ministry for the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers is preparing a three-ministry cooperation agreement to place its “Migran Aman” material in 80,298 legal aid posts across villages and urban wards, according to a ministry release published on May 4. 

Deputy Minister Christina Aryani said the agreement was discussed in Jakarta on Monday, May 4, after a meeting with Deputy Law Minister Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej and Deputy Minister for Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) Veronica Tan. 

“We are finalising the planned cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Migrants, the Ministry of Law, and the Ministry of PPPA as a concrete step to strengthen protection for Indonesian migrant workers,” Aryani said. 

The new element, however, is not the creation of a separate post network. The Migrant Ministry said the programme will insert safe-migration guidance into the Law Ministry’s village-level legal aid posts, alongside material on preventing trafficking in persons and sexual violence, as well as gender perspectives.

Aryani said all paralegals in the 80,298 village and ward legal aid posts are expected to understand those issues under the Migran Aman framework. The Law Ministry earlier said the posts covered 95.66 percent of Indonesia’s 83,946 villages and urban wards with 31 provinces already reaching full formation. 

The programme comes as Indonesia continues to expand formal labour mobility channels. The Migrant Ministry said back in February that more than 297,000 Indonesian migrant workers were placed abroad in 2025 and around 350,000 overseas job opportunities were listed in its system, with about 17.5 percent filled. 

Aryani said the cooperation agreement is targeted for signing on May 18 with a national launch linked to a Children’s Day commemoration. The material will explain how people can migrate safely, remain protected, and avoid legal problems from pre-departure to return. 

“We are targeting the signing of the cooperation agreement on May 18, 2026, with the national programme launch,” she said. 

The Ministry of Migrants’ 2025 dataset, last updated on February 12, counted 2,849 complaints from prospective and current Indonesian migrant workers through its Crisis Center, covering problems reported from inside Indonesia and abroad.