Sixty years have passed, seven administrations have come and gone, but not much has changed for illegal migrant workers in Nunukan, North Kalimantan.

Since the 1960s, thousands of Indonesians in the region have passed through the Malaysian border illegally. Due to their illegal status, they receive no protection as they work as cheap laborers: farmers, domestic and even sex workers.

Motivated by poverty and the desperate need to transform their fat