Jakarta – An estimated 7,000 workers from the city and surrounding areas staged a mass rally, demanding the government significantly raise the provincial minimum wages and retract a rec
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September 6, 2013
SP/Edi Hardum, SP/Hotman Siregar, SP/Mikael Niman & Bayu Marhaenjati – Some 20,000 Greater Jakarta workers rallied on Thursday to demand a 50 percent increase in regional minimum wa
September 5, 2013
Jakarta – Around 20,000 workers from the Confederation of Indonesia Workers' Union (KSPI) staged a mass rally on Thursday from the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle to the State Palace to
Fadli, Batam – Workers' rallies, ahead of the 2014 City Minimum Wage (UMK) discussion in Batam, Riau Islands, have raised concern among various parties, especially foreign investors.
September 4, 2013
Lenny Tristia Tambun & Hotman Siregar – Thousands of workers staged a demonstration in front of City Hall to demand a monthly minimum wage increase of 68 percent in the Jakarta area
Fikri Zaki Muhanmadi and Sita W.
The Archipelago – Dozens of activists of the Domestic Workers Protection Network (JPPRT) staged a rally in front of the Yogyakarta State Palace Gedung Agung on Tuesday to demand that th
September 3, 2013
Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Thousands of Indonesian migrant workers marched through the streets of Hong Kong on Monday in protest at the Indonesian government's migrant worker identifica
August 31, 2013
Fikri Zaki Muhammadi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Workers Forum on Friday urged the central government to cancel the presidential instruction (Inpres) that regulates wage rises, saying that i
August 30, 2013
Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) and several other labour associations have emphatically rejected the issuance of a presidential instruction (Inpres) on lim
inda Yulisman/Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, as part of the government's efforts to avert further massive layoffs amid the current economic slowdown, si
August 29, 2013
aulina Quintao – The Secretary of State for Professional Training Policy and Employment (SEPFOPE) has set the minimum wage at $115 per month but employers continue to pay domestic worke
August 28, 2013
Zulfi Suhendra, Jakarta – A number of companies and industrial zones have been included as Indonesian National Vital Objects (OVNI) in the industrial sector and now come under governmen
August 25, 2013
Sherr Rinn – During July and August, the Indonesian government firmed up its resistance to any further large increases in the minimum wage.
August 21, 2013
Sita W.
August 20, 2013
Alsadad Rudi, Jakarta – The Cross-Factory Labour Forum (FBLP) disputes the claim that four South Korean companies have left Jakarta.
Sita W.
August 19, 2013
Pallavi Gummalam – Indonesia has a large talent pool, but when it comes to a qualified workforce, this is where the country is lacking because of its underdeveloped education system, ac
August 16, 2013
Sherr Rinn – Between 2010-12 there was an awakening of the Indonesian labour movement that can be seen in the writings of people such as Danial Indrakusuma, Rahmat, Tarikh, Hidayah and
August 8, 2013
Shesar Andriawan/FMB, Jakarta – According to Budi Wardoyo, the national secretary of Politics of the People and the Joint Labour Secretariat (Sekber Buruh) working body, complaints [by
July 20, 2013
Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – The government is planning to issue a new rule that will serve as a reference for tripartite negotiations to set a nationwide minimum wage increase every year.
July 19, 2013
Workers at the Indonesian unit of Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc expect to reach an agreement over pay in less than two weeks, a union official said on Friday, cutting the risk
Tika Primandari, Jakarta – The National Commission for Child Protection has released a data concerning children for the first semester of 2013.
July 16, 2013
Damiana Ningsih & Agustiyanti – Business leaders are protesting a proposal from labor unions that have called for a 50 percent increase in monthly wages for 2014, saying the demand
Jakarta – Labour observer Professor Dr.
July 15, 2013
The National Director for Workplace Inspections Aniceto Leto Soro said they would give fines to individuals and employers who give hard, physical work to minors under 18 years old, beca
June 25, 2013
Jakarta – Despite the recent increase of fuel prices and inflation on the horizon, the Employers Association (Apindo) indicated there will be no wage increase this year.
June 22, 2013
Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – Up to 20 percent of Indonesian migrant workers have fallen victim to human trafficking, a figure that suggests that the criminals involved are just as well
June 20, 2013
The State Secretary for Professional Training and Employment (SEFOPE), Elidio Ximenes said the country's law banned children from working and said they had rights to get access to educa
Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Edi Hardum – A legislator and workers' rights activist has highlighted what she says is a massive scam facilitated by the Manpower Ministry to fleece mill
June 17, 2013
Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) is calling on the government to ratify ILO Convention No.
June 16, 2013
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June 15, 2013
Jakarta – The International Labor Organization, Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance and local NGOs want the government and industry to put a stop to child labor.
June 14, 2013
PT Freeport Indonesia workers called off a strike planned for today that would have halted maintenance at the world's biggest copper mine, after the company suspended officials held res
June 7, 2013
Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Golkar Party insists that it supports a bill on domestic workers' rights currently being proposed for deliberation, despite earlier remarks to the contrar
June 5, 2013
Hundreds of workers from PT Bali Taru Utama, a stationery company located in Tangerang regency, took to the streets to demand that the management abandon outsourcing, which they said wa
May 29, 2013
Gabriel Kereh – Indonesian companies face the prospective problem of the inability to hire qualified employees due to a shortage in skilled labor and will need take action to meet the c
May 16, 2013
James Balowski – In some of the largest demonstrations in recent years, tens of thousands of trade unionists and workers took part in May Day rallies across Indonesia calling for higher
May 11, 2013
Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Edi Hardum – Indonesia's labor system opens the door to worker exploitation and slavery, as evidenced by a recent case in Tangerang that has gripped the n
May 9, 2013
Ali Akhmad, Jakarta – As many as 29 women's community groups from the Indonesian Women's Action Committee (KAPI) commemorated 20 years since the murder of Marsinah by holding a candleli
May 8, 2013
Achmad Faizal, Surabaya – Scores of women workers from various different groups in East Java held an action on Wednesday May 8 in the provincial capital of Surabaya to commemorate 20 ye
May 6, 2013
Sita W.
Tangerang – In response to the enslaving of workers at a kitchen utensils factory in Sepatan Timur, Tangerang, workers and local residents ran amok and damaged the factory's facilities
May 4, 2013
Police in Tangerang sealed a frying pan factory and arrested its owner, who allegedly held his underaged workers in captivity while forcing them to work without pay.
Jakarta – Khotiah, a factory worker, said she never expected her back-breaking work spanning 11 years at the Siliwangi Knitting Factory in North Jakarta to end with her dismissal for fo
May 3, 2013
Hundreds of workers at Freeport-McMoRan's Indonesian mine returned to work on Friday after a three-day strike over pay, the US firm said, ending the latest bout of industrial action to
May 1, 2013
Hundreds of workers at Freeport-McMoRan's Indonesian mine have gone on strike demanding better pay, the US firm said Wednesday, in the latest industrial action to hit the operation.
April 30, 2013
Paulus Suryanta Ginting – May Day 2013 cannot be evaluated as just a one day mobilisation, a kind of ceremony or celebration.
April 27, 2013
Jakarta – Labor watchdogs say limited access to information on the rights and protection of migrant workers is one of the reasons behind the rampant exploitation and marginalization tha
April 25, 2013
Suhartono, Jakarta – The Labour Secretariat (Sekber Buruh) in Jakarta and the satellite cities of Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi is calling on the thousands of workers planning to h