Selasa, 27 September 2016

Philipines Government Encourages Ratification of ILO 188 and STCW-F

Philipines Government encourages the ratification of Ilo 188 and STCW-F

The Philippine government officers were present on the agenda of South East Asia / East Asia Regional Conference on Ethical Recruitment and Policy Harmonization in Fishing Industry
National Assembly of Republic of Korea, 25-26 August 2016.

On their session, Philippines Government was presented on Migration System in Philippine. As we know the Philippines is also a sending country of migrant workers. They also have good rules in terms of governance of migration to the division of tasks, functions and inter-institutional coordination. Nevertheless it is still considered insufficient to protect their migrant workers wh
o work abroad, especially for those working Workers at Fishing Vessel.

Based on data from the Philippine Government that there are 1.8 million migrant workers, there are 406 531 workers in the sea, and of the workers at sea fishermen. Thus the Philippine government is also obliged to protect their migrant workers who are in the fishery sector.

At the session of presentation, John Rio Bautista, POEA stated that the Philippines will push to ratify ILO 188 and the STCW-F. Then he also describes the challenges faced by the Philippine government in implementing policy instruments, nationalized the living standards and working conditions on board, including in the deep sea and territorial sea.

The basic rules and procedures to protect workers Philippine fishing vessels by John Rio Bautista, POEA is about: job descriptions, wages, hours of work, overtime, meals and accommodation, transport, leave pay and sick leave, vacation.

During this time the Philippines has a practice such costs are borne entirely shipowner. Earlier, the government survey in advance to see the state of Labor. Eg ships that will operate in coastal areas, both in trading and fishing boats. Then the costs associated with the recruitment and placement of Filipino crew borne by the shipowner.

According Rizky Oktaviana, SBMI representatives who attended the event, stated that, in Indonesia alone rules made by the Indonesian government in the protection of Indonesian Seafarers working on foreign-flagged ship Fish still overlapping and unclear. This raises the number of victims of the Indonesian Seafarers are alleged to be victims of human trafficking and modern slavery on foreign-flagged fishing vessels. Then the Indonesian Government's efforts in terms of checking the ship, Rizky not know whether the Indonesian Government has done it yet because it has not been a lack of transparency on the matter.

Rizky added that "If you want to make the protection of Indonesians Seafares who work on foreign vessels, the Indonesian government should immediately make rules regarding the protection of them, with a note of this rule has been agreed between the institutions in Indonesia. It is intended that does not happen again overlapping regulations or disharmony regulations issued or could the government to ratify ILO Convention 188 or the effort to adopt the rules in ILO Convention 188 view of the factors the needs of society and also the urgency regarding the protection Indonesian Seafares
at this time ".

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