Fadli, Batam – Amid fears of security disturbances from potentially escalating workers' rallies, Riau Islands Governor Muhammad Sani has agreed to raise the workers' minimum wage in Bat

Anita Rachman – Tired of waiting, dozens of domestic workers and activists ambushed the office of the House of Representatives' Legislative Body on Wednesday to demand the domestic work

Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia workers have finally agreed to end their strike after the copper and gold mining giant decided to increase their wages by up to 40 percent.

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A group of maids and activists has vowed to camp out in front of the legislative building in Jakarta until lawmakers make the domestic wor

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – Tony Wenas, the vice chairman of the Indonesian Mining Association, said on Sunday that he was worried a union decision to extend its three-month strike at the

Strikers at PT Freeport Indonesia in Papua say they will remain on strike into 2012 if no agreement can be reached with management on new wages.

Jakarta – The East Nusa Tenggara provincial government has set the minimum regional wage for 2012 at Rp 925,000 (about US$102) a month.

Leaders of various worker's unions and movements say they will group together into a more organized front, and establish a joint committee and local branches in cities to oppose the pol

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has officially lifted the two year moratorium on sending migrant workers to Malaysia.

By Max Lane – The simmering discontent throughout Indonesia regularly overflowed throughout October and November.

John McBeth – For all the democratic space created after the fall of President Suharto, with Indonesia signing on to the core principles of freedom of association and the right to colle

Fadli, Batam – Although the city was quiet on Friday, the situation remained volatile in Batam with Batam Mayor Ahmad Dahlan continuing to reject the demands of local workers seeking a

Anita Rachman – Nanik Sutiyah rents a small room in North Jakarta, about three square meters all around, but it still seems sparsely furnished.

Index: ASA 21/035/2011

Oyos Saroso H.N, Bandar Lampung – A strike involving medical workers, including doctors and administrative employees at the Abdul Moeloek General Hospital (RSUAM) in Bandar Lampung, Lam

Batam – Indonesian National Police said on Friday that 27 people have been arrested in connection with two days of violent wage demonstrations that rocked the industrial zone of Batam,

Ismira Lutfia – A UN committee has approved a draft resolution presented by Indonesia on violence against women migrant workers, but activists warn that it wields no power unless it is

Fadli and Arya Dipa, Batam/Cimahi – A massive rally involving nearly 10,000 workers demanding a pay rise in Batam, Riau Islands, ended in chaos as six were injured, including one person

John McBeth – A three month-long strike has paralyzed Freeport Indonesia's giant copper and gold mine in the Central Highlands of Papua.

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Bandung/Surabaya – Rejection of both workers and employers marred the passage of the ruling of the minimum wage (UMK) for 2012 in Bandung, Wes

Dofa Fasila – A planned week-long strike by workers across the capital was averted after the Jakarta wage council approved a more substantial provincial minimum wage rise for next year.

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Dofa Fasila – The Jakarta Administration announced on Friday that the provincial minimum wage would be raised next year by about 16 percent, setting the stage for a strike by workers ho

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Jakarta – As the Indonesian government looks set to lift a moratorium on sending migrant workers to Malaysia, workers' advocate group Migrant Care is wondering whether the two countries

Jakarta – The Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI) chief M.

Jakarta – As many as 400 Newmont Nusa Tenggara's workers on Wednesday conducted a strike demanding the company clarify over-time payments.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Local business associations have complained about recent demands by workers for wage increases above the proper-living needs (KHL) standard set by regional lab

Faisal Maliki Baskoro & Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry says Freeport Indonesia's union workers should be more reasonable in their demand for a ra

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The government and the House of Representatives have been told to immediately review the controversial 2003 Labor Law to better protect labor and revive th

About 2,500 workers at Indonesia's largest mobile-phone carrier, Telkomsel, went on strike on Thursday demanding better pay and pensions, the latest dispute over labor in Southeast Asia

Union workers at Freeport Indonesia Grasberg copper mine plan to extend a strike into a third month, which would make it the worst work stoppage in the history of the country's mining i

Camelia Pasandaran – Striking workers employed by Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold's subsidiary in Papua have dropped their minimum wage increase demands from $7.50 to $4 an hour, the

The presence of Indonesian domestic workers in the Middle East negatively impacts on the country's image, a group of Indonesian ambassadors allege.

Trade unionists from around the world including Australia are in Jakarta, to try to resolve the bitter dispute at the Freeport mine in the Indonesian province of Papua.

Bandung – Around 150 workers who say they are members of the Indonesian Labor Movement (KASBI) union, staged a rally demanding 100 percent wage increases next year.

John McBeth, Jakarta – He is a mechanic with a single name and a mysterious past, but the man called Sudiro is almost single-handedly leading the eight-week-long strike that has played

The union representing striking Freeport Indonesia mine workers in Timika, Papua, is claiming that a number of police armored vehicles and heavy loaders were on their way to break up th

Jakarta – Hundreds of workers from Jakarta Labor Forum, a grouping of several labor associations, staged a protest in front of governor's office in the capital on Friday.

Jakarta – Pay talks between Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold and a union representing striking workers at its Indonesia mine are deadlocked after a week of negotiations, the union sai

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – As many as 100 representatives from worker groups throughout the province of South Sulawesi staged a mass rally in the front of the governor's office.

Olivia Rondonuwu – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold declared force majeure on some concentrate sales from its strike-hit Grasberg mine in Papua on Wednesday, a move that kept benchmar

Setyo Budi – Workers at West Papua's Grasberg mine have been in intense negotiations for wage increases with Freeport Indonesia management since July this year.

The West Papua Advocacy Team and East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) are deeply concerned by the escalating violence in the area of US-based Freeport McMoran's massive gold a

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-216-2011

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Olivia Rondonuwu and Neil Chatterjee – When Freeport renewed its contract for one of the world's biggest copper and gold mines, some of Indonesia's top officials were on hand at the cel

Ali Kutarumalos, Jakarta – Thousands of striking workers blockaded roads leading to Freeport-McMoRan Cooper & Gold Inc.'s mine in easternmost Indonesia on Tuesday, preventing food,

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A group of workers has opposed the bill on social security and insurance that mandates the merger of the existing four social security providers, saying th

Banjir Ambarita – At least three people were killed in an ambush on Friday near the Freeport-McMoRan Grasberg mine in the Mimika district of Papua, police said.

Elly Burhaini Faizal – Quality education is the key to improving productivity during this era of high under-employment in the country, an ILO report says.