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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.

This book traces the beginning of the process of nation-formation, the struggle for independence, the hopeful beginning of the new nation-state of Indonesia only to be followed by hard and difficult ways to remain true to the ideals of independence. In the process Indonesia with its sprawling archipelago and its multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation has to undergo various types of crisis and internal conflicts, but the ideals that have been nurtured since the beginning when a new nation beg

Geoff Simons profiles the appalling human-rights record of modern Indonesia, against a history of the country. Brutal repression, the unjust legal system and corrupt nepotism are described, with attention to the independence struggles of the East Timorese and West Papuans. The historical survey includes the anti-colonialist campaign, the role of Sukarno as first president, the Suharto decades, the 1998 appointment of Habibie as third president and the social chaos caused by economic collapse. It also describes how the United States and Britain plotted anti-Sukarno coups , supported 1960s massacres, and protected the despotic Suharto regime.