Indonesia has shown commitment to address HIV vulnerability among migrants and mobile populations with their inclusion in national HIV prevention, care and treatment strategies. Policies have been developed to provide migrants with health and reintegration services and to prohibit HIV mandatory testing during the recruitment process.

However, HIV testing is mandatory in most destination countries as part of recruitment procedures and onsite medical exams often take place upon arrival. This raises concerns about the availability of care, treatment and referral services for potential and returning migrants found HIV positive.

Strengthening national capacities to provide migrant and mobile populations with quality prevention, care and treatment services throughout the migration cycle is needed. In addition, gender-based data collection and surveillance systems that target vulnerable migrant and mobile populations with strategic HIV interventions remain to be developed.