31. KEBIJAKAN PEMERINTAH INDONESIA DAN KOREA SELATAN DALAM MENANGANI TKI OVERSTAY DI KOREA SELATAN

Abstract

This research aims to describe Indonesia and South Korea policies in tackling overstayed
Indonesian migrant workers in South Korea. Both countries have signed MoU on the
Sending Indonesian Workers to the Republic of Korea under Employment Permit System
since 2004. Indonesia and South Korea implement several policies through either bilateral
policy and unilateral policy to resolve the problem. This research uses qualitative as a
method and neoliberalism as a theory to explain policies that released by Indonesia and
South Korea. Those policies should be maximizing both parties absolute gain as mentioned
in the neoliberalism theory. Indonesia had released four main policies. South Korea
policies stand for general term of overstayed foreign worker. As conclusion, the policies
need a strong supervision on their implementation for efficiency increment.