The Importance of Migrant Workers Protection in Industrial Revolution Era 4.0 (Comparative Study between Indonesia and Philippines)

The changes triggered by the rise of industrial revolution 4.0, has forced the government to improve the protection of migrant workers, especially Indonesia and Philippines as the two biggest senders of migrant workers among ASEAN member countries. This paper aims to compare protection migrant workers in industrial revolution 4.0 era that given by Philippines and Indonesia. This paper is using qualitative method, by collecting data through literature studies. The analysis result showed that in terms of regulation, Indonesia and Philippines have allocated considerable attention to protect the migrant workers. On the level of program, the government and non-governmental organization has initiated the making of a digital platform to help the migrant workers in sharing various information. The using digitalization as migrant workers’ protection means is showed by each country through the use of digital-based platform initiated by the government and non-governmental Organization.