Highlights of Discussion

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GLOBAL TRENDS OF
DISPLACEMENT AND FORCED
MIGRATION (UNHCR, 2018)

189,300 refugees
resettled in 2016

65,6 10
MILLION MILLION
forcibly
displaced stateless
people people
worldwide

22,5 MILLION
refugees

Source: http://www.unhcr.org/en-au/figures-at-a-glance.html, access online on March 7, 2018.

 What challenges do the host countries and refugees confront up?

Host Countries Refugees

Social
stability
Language and
cross-culture Uncertainty
barriers
Geopolitical
stability
Limited/no access
Economic Social pressures to work permit,
stability and labels lack access to
financial inclusion
 What have been doing? But challenges remain..

Most of
assistance are
in short-terms
and almost
Resettlement
entirely
and
depend on
reintegration
Refugees and humanitarian
programs
cash-based aid
interventions

As of September Humanitarian
2017 UNHCR’s Assistance
When
budget is at an Political
solutions are
advocacy designed to
historic high of
short-term
$7.76 billion, which targets, it is
Logistic of
is currently 46% displacement
likely ended
up to long-
funded (UNHCR (basic needs) term distress
Global Focus, 2018).
World Economic Forum 2018 in Davos

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 A shift in responding modern emergencies: A new transformative action

Short-term Bring new

business

humanitarian perspectives with

international
organizations

assistance
Innovative
economic
development
Foreign
platforms
Long-term Investment
&
New relationship
with Business
and private

innovative
Global sectors
partnership

solutions
The 2016 Jordan Compact and
Special Development Zones (SEZs)

The Jordan Compact: Sustainable

future for both Jordanians and
Syrian Refugees

18 Special Economic Zones - part of

1,7$ Billion Jordan Compact with
EU

Required 15% of refugees in the

workforce

Create 200,000 jobs in 5 years

Insights and Implications from Jordan in Responding
Global Refugee Crises

1 2 3
Turning the Syrian Leading way to Mobilizing sufficient
refugee crisis into a transformative action grants and concessionary
development from short-term financing to support the
opportunity assistance to long-term macroeconomic
intervention model in framework and small-
crisis settings scale local business
 There is a need to re-design our approach to responding refugee crisis in our country

“It is time for Indonesia to turn this crisis into a development opportunity.
It’s time to change the conversation about refugees and work on more
transformative action.”

The new
transformative
model: Can the similar Indonesia is a transit country for asylum seekers and refugees from Asia
and the Middle East (Tan, 2016.)

approach works to
address refugee issues Number of refugees & asylum seekers increased from 526 in 2007 to
13,000 in 2016 under UNHCR mandate à potential increase in the
and challenges in future due to conflicts, disasters and climate change.
Indonesia?
Both Jordan and Indonesia are economic-emerging countries in conflict-
prone regional environments who aren’t signatory to the 1951 refugee
Convention (Tan, 2016).
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