Events

SHORT FILMS PREMIERE – Migrating Out of Poverty

Date: 02 May 2016
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Venue:

Auditorium Pusat Studi Kependudukan dan Kebijakan (PSKK)
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Jl. Tevesia, Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta, 5528, Indonesia

Programme

The Migrating out of Poverty research team at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (ARI-MOOP) has been working closely with the Centre for Population and Policy Studies, Gajah Mada University (UGM-CPPS) on migrant workers’ issues over the last couple of years. Migrating out of Poverty is an international research programme consortium funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. It focuses on the relationship between migration and poverty, with the aim of maximising the development impacts of migration whilst minimising the costs and risks of migration for the poor.

With an explicit aim of reaching out to the general public to raise awareness about labour migration issues, the team has commissioned two short films on migration in Indonesia:

1. Film: Ceria: Reading across Worlds
“We come to Singapore to work and contribute. I wanted to bring something home for my own community.” Ristani Ningrum spent years in Singapore as a domestic worker, one of over 200, 000 women from the Southeast Asian region who migrate to Singapore to work. Part of her job involved reading to her employer’s son – and through this shared activity, she was inspired to start a children’s library, named Ceria, in her home village of Desa Bader, Indonesia.

2. Film: Mimpi Anak Desa: Small Town, Big Dreams
“Mimpi Anak Desa” focuses on the impact of parental migration on young people’s aspirations in Ponorogo, Indonesia. Miko and Nisa are children of overseas labour migrants. Miko majors in business administration in the university while Nisa is pursuing a diploma in nursing at a private polytechnic. What dreams do they have for the future?

The research team will be at the event to interact with attendees.

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

  • Registration will start at 9.00am.
  • Overview of research work under the Migrating out of Poverty research programme consortium.
  • Screening of films.
  • Discussions with event attendees.

REGISTRATION

Admission is free. Please register online by 25 April at this link: (http://tinyurl.com/moopfilm).
If you have any queries, please email the event coordinator, Hera (herasahnan@yahoo.com).