REMITTANCES IMPACT FROM INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION TO ORIGIN COUTRIES: CASE FROM INDONESIA

In situations where the unemployment rate continues to rise, Indonesia benefits of sending workers abroad. Besides being able to solve the problem of unemployment, sending migrant labor may also increase the welfare of migrant families and provide foreign exchange. Along the way, sending Indonesian workers abroad raises many questions relating to the issue of economic and non-economic. This paper examines the phenomenon of international migration in Indonesia is associated with the impact on the country's economy in the context of the international economy.
Percentage of foreign exchange (remittances) from international migrants continues to increase the consumption and Gross Domestic Product. In the period of the 2000s, the percentage of foreign exchange (remittances) from international migrant household consumption on average by 2.76 percent, while the Gross Domestic Product of an average of 1.84 percent. But in 2005's, the percentage of foreign exchange earnings from international migrants to consumption and Gross Domestic Product decreased, but the percentage decline was still on the percentage of foreign exchange remitance.