Pre-Departure Measures

A shadowy migrant labor industry leaves many migrant laborers vulnerable to exploitation overseas. Two villages in West Nusa Tenggara have created a system to better protect Indonesian workers.

Zainul Arifin, 24, loves to weave fruit baskets from rattan, a small palm plant. He sells the baskets in his home village of Jenggik Utara in East Lombok regency, West Nusa Tenggara, where he lives with his wife and child. "I was a mig