Every year, nearly 300,000 Indonesians leave to work abroad, and thousands of them are exploited.
Most of them leave without knowing who to call when something goes wrong. The protection exists, from worker hotlines to embassy numbers, but it sits in brochures and websites that almost nobody opens before departure.
There is one moment, though, when every worker pays complete attention, and that is the mandatory language test, because passing it is the only way out the door.
So we changed what the test teaches. The listening questions are no longer trivial questions about buying vegetables or counting change, but about a passport being taken, a contract nobody explained, a salary that never arrived, and the number to call when it happens, each one drawn from the real stories of Indonesian migrant workers who lived through them.