MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT EFFORTS IN MANAGING THE ILLEGAL MIGRANT WORKERS FROM INDONESIA (2011-2017)

Abstract

Malaysia is one of the developing countries in Southeast Asia that has been dealing with the phenomenon of transnational migration particularly illegal migrant workers from Indonesia. In fact, the phenomenon of migration in Malaysia has been underwent for such long times. The identified number of illegal Indonesian migrant workers is huge, while the presence of these illegal migrant workers has raised insecurities among the local and government of Malaysia. Regardless of their status that is unlawfully, the implications given by the illegal migrant workers from admittedly have threaten the national security of Malaysia, which eventually the illegal migrant workers have been perceived as security threat by the Malaysian government. Not only impacted Malaysia, the conduct of illegal migration justified as organized crime, which likely associated with smuggling of migrant. In the end, Malaysian government implemented several programs to manage the flow of illegal migrant workers from Indonesia in 2011 until 2017. This research used the qualitative approach which explained on how Malaysian government control the illegal migrant workers of Indonesia in Malaysia through the programs and security operation