PERAN HUKUM INTERNASIONAL DALAM MENYELESAIKAN MASALAH PELANGGARAN HAM TENAGA KERJA INDONESIA DI LUAR NEGERI (STUDI KASUS KEKERASAN TERHADAP TKW DI ARAB SAUDI)

Cooperation among Indonesia and Saudi Arabia become tighter with the delivery the Indonesian labors to Saudi Arabia. The majority of Indonesian labors are woman. It cooperation is very beneficial for both of the country. For Indonesia, its delivery could reduce unemployment and produce foreign exchange, and for Saudi Arabia could fill the requirement of human resources. Basically, the purpose of delivery of woman labors to Saudi Arabia is to increase their life level (release from the poverty) but it can't work properly just like their and Indonesian government expectation before. So many human right violation for them since they have been work in Saudi Arabia, for example maltreatment (mistreating), women violation, sexual insulting, unpaid fee, even murder where these cases caused by some factors among others are poorly skill of them and no law could protect them from any violence acts pertained into light or hard level of human rights violation. To handle these human rights violation problems, so far Indonesian Government had ratification the International Convention about human rights violation as effort to prevent its violation become worse. Both of states also had mutually agreed to sign the bilateral cooperation or MoU (Minutes of Meeting) to increase the protection quality for Indonesian labor in Saudi Arabia.