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Amnesty International has decried a repressive human rights climate in Indonesia and a worrying lack of progress in addressing past abuses, in a report that is also the third in as many weeks to criticize rising religious intolerance in the country.

Asia’s migrant workers sent approximately $260 billion to their families in 2012, but high fees and limited financial services outside of urban areas are reducing the benefits of those remittances for millions of rural residents, according to a new report.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) is encouraging the Indonesian government to make optimum use of bilateral and multilateral agreements to better protect its migrant workers abroad.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) is encouraging the Indonesian government to make optimum use of bilateral and multilateral agreements to better protect its migrant workers abroad.

The Balinese workforce has yet to be able to seize the opportunity of becoming spa therapists overseas, although there are thousands of vacancies in various countries, due to lack of competence.

Relatives have lost contact for years with seven workers in the Middle East, the Indonesian migrant workers union (SBMI) of West Java said.

Executive director of Migrant CARE Anis Hidayah said there were 420 Indonesian workers abroad who were facing the death penalty.

Indonesia received US$7.2 billion from around 6.5 million migrant workers overseas in 2012, the World Bank said in a recent report.