In The Philippines, The Government Years Ago Had Instilled An Un – Spoken Re-Stricted Travel Block On All Filipino’s. If You Don’t Have POEA, Or IF Your Not A Celebrity, Politician Or Look Rich Enough, To Travel Outside Of The Philippines Is Not Possible For Average Filipino’s. This Is The Reality Of The Filipino People. They Are Prisoners In Their Own Country And Where There Are Not Enough Jobs, Hence Poverty Is Going To Be An Everlasting Problem.
For Musicians This Hits Close To Home. Talents For Asia Has Just Learned Last Night Of Four (4) Filipino Musicians Who Were Off Loaded From A Flight Bound For Dubai. The Musicians End Destination Was Not Dubai But A Country Which Has No Philippines Embassy And They Were On Their Way For An Audition. As Such Before Their Departure They Had Called The POEA Office For Advice And POEA Had Said To Apply For Visa At The Nearest Embassy Of The Country You Are Going For Audition In, And Ask The Potential Employer For A Letter Of Invitation.
All this Was Done And When they Were Stopped By Officers Of The Philippines Immigration before Walking On The Plane, Mind You They Cleared Philippines Immigration But Were Then Stopped And Ask To Offload, Upon Questioning The Officer For the Reason Of The Offload The Officer Kept Silent, Then Band Then Asked The Officer, How Do you Apply POEA When The Country They Are Going To Has NO PHILIPPINES EMBASSY, And They Are Only Going For An Audition, Not Employment, The Officer Then Still Kept Silent And Said OFFLOAD.
As Such, This Begs The Question, How Does POEA Or The Philippines Government Classify Auditions? 2) How Come The Philippines Immigration Officer Questioned Why A Visa For The Country The Band Was Going To Was Issued From Another Country; When They Should Know That The Country Of Travel To Has No Embassy In The Philippines.? After The Musicians Had Informed The Officer That There Was No Embassy Of The Philippines In That Particular Country And That That Country They Were Going To Had No Embassy In Philippines They Were Still OFFLOADED.
Is This Not A Form Of FORCED IMPRISONMENT By Denying People Their Rights To Leave The Country? Now If You Do The Math, What Would Be The Employers Cost Should He Have To Travel To The Nearest Country To Him Just To Apply For POEA For Four (4) People To Audition? And Then Travel Again To Facilitate POEA For Employment. Now In The Case Where They Have Offloaded, Who Pays For The Losses Of The Tickets And Money Spent?
If The Government Of The Philippines Wants To Close Its Doors Under The Pretext Of Protecting Its People, then It Should Also Have Funds to Re-Pay All Cost In Cases Like This Where Philippines Immigration Officers Seem To Lack Common Sense. It’s a Sad Day To Hear All This, When The Philippines Is So Dependent On The OFW Remittance. Talents For Asia Is Not Attacking Anyone But Is Trying To Show The Lack Of Logic, Human Decency And Human Rights Violation In A Law That Can Only Be Classified As Pre- Historic.
We Believe That It Is Time For Change In A System That Hinders The Filipino Musician And People For Seeking A Better Life As The POEA Process Is Only Beneficial to The Philippines Government And Not The Employer Or People. It Would Be Better To Launch A Special POEA Identification Card That Has A Microchip And It Can Function As Digital Permit Card Upon Departure Of Filipino’s Having This Valid For Only 12 Months And Having It Equipped With Insurance And All Information Needed Will Ease And Resolve Issues Like We Have Mentioned Above, Because Now The Potential Employer Has A Clear Cut Case For Legal Action Not Only Against The Officer Who Offloaded WITHOUT DUE JUSTIFICATION But Also Against The Philippines Immigration For Cost As Now Tickets Are Wasted. If You Launch A POEA Card, It Would Promote Legal Employment As All you Have To Do Is Simplify The Card Application Process By Having Filipino’s Apply For It In Person. This Also Stems Out The Problems With Fixers, It Instantly Provides For Data Collection On OFW’s And It Makes The Whole Employment Process Easier For Foreign Companies Which Will Then Further Generate Greater Employment Due to A Process That Is Fair To All.
It Really Amazes And At The Same Time Ticks Talents For Asia Off Because The Musicians As Mentioned In Yesterday's Night’s Incident Were Really Not At Fault, And No Act Of Corruption Was Attempted By The Musicians They Were Leaving On The Merit Of Their LEGAL Documentation. Talents For Asia Can Now Understand Why So Many Filipino’s Who Leave The Philippines, Don’t Want To Go Home Again. Because Its Really Like A Prison Sentence, You Can’t Leave At Your Own Free Will, Unlike Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, And Or Even Malaysia. As We At Talents For Asia Start To Look At This Particular Incident, We Are Starting To Understand Why So Many Filipino Musicians Are So Tired And Sick Of Their Own Country And Rather live Overseas For As Long As They Can, Simply Because When They Get Home, Its Just Too Much Hassle For Them to Go Out Again.
So Really Is Talents For Asia The Fool For Advocating At The Top Of Our Lungs, The POEA Law?; Which Now Looks To Talents For Asia As A Law That Only Benefits A Few And Enshrines The Majority In Poverty? We Are Now At The Cross Roads Of Reality And What Do We Do,? Talents For Asia Promotes Direct Employment As We Are Only A Promotions Platform, We Are Not An Agency. Yet We Can Feel The Anger And Frustration Of The Filipino Musicians And We Wonder If Ever The New President Will Ever Open The Gates At The Airports And Allow His People To Be Free Or Will He Continue To Enslave his People In A Situation Which Only Benefits The Minority And Not The Majority?
Again, We Are Stressing That We Are Not Attacking But We Are Just Airing Our Queries And Thoughts, And We At Talents For Asia Are Wondering What Is The Solution? And Who Will Lead The Call For The Freedom Of Filipino Musicians? And The Filipino People to Travel Internationally Without Being Made To Answer Questions That Don’t Concern Any Philippines Immigration Officer Or Even The Government As The End Of It All Is The Remittance Still Comes Back Anyway, Does It not?
This Is Really A Discussion Worth Having Just To Tap Ideas That Can Lead To A Winning Situation For Both Sides Of The Divide. Talents For Asia Apologies If We Have Offended Anyone As Its Only Our Intention To Ask The Questions That Really Begs To Be Asked And Also To Create Room For Intelligent Discussions To Find Solutions That Can Really Help Ease The Burden Of The People. It Is Sad When You Have To Miss An Opportunity Because The People In Power Lack Commonsense And A Train Of Thought To Trust Legal Documentation And Also It Is Sad That They Lack Knowledge In Which Countries Have Embassies In Philippines.
Maybe Its time Filipino Musicians Bind Together And Come Up With A Proposal That They Can Submit To Their Respective Senators And President For More Liberation At The Airport Gates For Them. We Hope This Article Spurs Creative Thinking Which Will Lead To The Generation Of Ideas Which Can Open The Gates And Free The Musicians. Talents For Asia Understands The Some Protection Is Needed, But That Can Be Done Via In A Different Manner That Does Not Cost People Jobs And Potential Employers Financial Loss. Times Have Changed And We Sincerely Feel That The Locks At The Airport Gates Should Be Removed And Other Documented Procedures Should Be Put Into Place Especially For Countries That Have No Philippines Embassies And Have No Diplomatic Missions In The Philippines.
Let Us Hope That This Article Will Spur Creative, And Intelligent As Well As Un – Selfish Results, So That The Majority Will Benefit, After All, Philippines Is Suppose To Be A Democratic Country, Thus Why Not Have Democratic Laws . As They Say; Out With The Old And In With The New…
We Leave It To You The Reader To Draw your Own Conclusion But We Clearly State Our Position As Not Attacking With No Intention To Offend, Once Again, Talents For Asia Is Only Asking The Questions That Begged To Be Asked After We Heard Of Last Night’s Incident, That Really Should Not Have Happened Due To The Lack Of Knowledge By The Philippines Immigration Officer That Ordered The Off Load Of The Four Musicians. One Mans Fault Is Not The Fault Of the Entire Company, But It Questions The Style In Which The Said Company Is Managed.
Should This Article Offend Any Person And Or Entity, We At Talents For Asia Thus Apologies In Advance. As This Article Is For The SOLE Purpose Of Exposing What Went Wrong, And Who Is To be Held Responsible And What Type Of Solutions Can Be Put In Place To Stop This From Happening Again. There Are To Many Man Made laws That Are Archaic And Should Be Revised With Freedom To All Placed In Mind.Thus We End This We A An Apology To Those Who Feel Offended And We Hope This Serves As A Lesson To Those Involved To Go And Expand Their Knowledge Which Will Enable Them To Do Their Jobs Better.
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