The Days of Jokowis Reign: Economic Development for Migrant Workers

Economics development is one of the main focuses in every government?s planbook.In the initial reign of Jokowi, the 7th president of Indonesia, several policies have been served in short amount of time. One of the policies is about boosting the economy in the country, and the decision to put on a hold in the migrant workers departure in near future comes out contradictory. Migrant workers have been supporting the remittance of Indonesia for many years, and reducing it might endanger the economic stabilization in Indonesia, especially in government revenue. This journal aims to discover whether the new policy of Jokowi regarding reducement of migrant workers will affect economic development in Indonesia, and which strategy will work best for such plan. The result showed the main reason of the reducement is about the security of the migrant workers regarding of many violation cases happened to the workers.