The Role of Social Worker in the Context of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Rights in Indonesia

Alamsyah Agus, Intan Slipi Lia, Muh. Akbar

2018

Abstract

The plight of refugees and asylum seekers has been a trending issue of critical importance for social workers in Indonesia. At the end of February 2018, the public was overwhelmed by mass media coverage of a large number of refugees living on the streets in front of the Immigration Office in Jakarta. Their existence needs to be noticed by the government in particular and all parties in general, as it may create a new social problem. Many of the difficulties experienced by them, but the most felt is due to the issue of legal status and language barrier; they can not access public services such as healthcare, education, work, and others. Social workers work to uphold the dignity of all those refugees and asylum seekers including unaccompanied minors (UAM) and to work with them for successful social functioning. This paper explores available integrative literature, quantitative document analysis, and presents mixed methodology through individual interviews and an exploratory study to analyze social workers’ role to respond the various issues faced by today’s refugees and asylum seekers rights as well as potential way for being supporting document as a policy framework for Indonesian government to ratify the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Agus A., Lia I. and Akbar M. (2018). The Role of Social Worker in the Context of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Rights in Indonesia.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 332-339. DOI: 10.5220/0009930103320339

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Alamsyah Agus and Intan Slipi Lia and Muh. Akbar},
title={The Role of Social Worker in the Context of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Rights in Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={332-339},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009930103320339},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - The Role of Social Worker in the Context of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Rights in Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Agus A.
AU - Lia I.
AU - Akbar M.
PY - 2018
SP - 332
EP - 339
DO - 10.5220/0009930103320339