[20 February 2010, dis, The Jakarta Post] Activists dismissed the government's claim of having achieved "success" in taking home thousands of migrant workers who were experiencing problems abroad.They said that protecting and demanding those workers rights could be considered an achievement, but taking them home would not be considered so. "Taking them home is not an achievement because its only a part of the government's obligation," Anis Hidayah from the Migrant Care organization told The Jakarta Post.

She said the government should consider bigger problems that needed solving, such as the deaths of migrant workers overseas and the delayed ratification of the conventions on basic migrant workers' rights.

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