Banjir Ambarita – A strike that has crippled Freeport Indonesia's copper and gold mine in Papua is expected to continue well into its second week after talks between management and work

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The government has been criticized for allocating "too low" of a budget for protecting Indonesian workers overseas, setting aside merely Rp 26 billion (US$3.04

Arientha Primanita – There are 179 Indonesians on death row in Malaysia, with most cases involving narcotics offenses, an Indonesian government spokesman said on Thursday.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Thousands of PT Freeport Indonesia workers, engaged in a work stoppage for a second day, occupied a checkpoint in Kuala Kencana.

Elly Burhaini Faizal and Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – Although the Foreign Ministry received a letter from the Saudi Arabian government halting visas for Indonesian maids, other governme

Jakarta – Thousands of workers of PT Freeport Indonesia, the local unit of US giant mining corporation Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., claim that the strike they began on Monda

Samuel Wanda, Timika, Papua – About 8,000 workers at Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc's Indonesian unit kicked off a seven-day strike on Monday, a union head said, in a move that

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Riyadh – Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday it would stop granting work permits to domestic workers from Indonesia and the Philippines, following hiring conditions imposed by the Asian co

Arientha Primanita – An official with the country's migrant worker protection board urged that a fee collected from overseas workers and pooled in a fund to be used for legal problems a

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Indonesia needs benchmarks to ensure that more workers can obtain "decent and productive" work, according to an ILO economist.

The National Board for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers (BNP2TKI) launched a call center for Indonesian migrant workers (TKI) on Monday.

Former head of Nahdlatul Ulama National Board (PBNU) Hasyim Muzadi asked the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) to issue a fatwa against sending female migrant workers to foreign countri

Ismira Lutfia – An Indonesian maid convicted of murder in Saudi Arabia has been spared execution by beheading after the Indonesian government paid Rp 4.6 billion ($534,000) in "blood mo

The local branch of the union of energy and mining workers at Freeport-Indonesia announced on Friday 24 June that it had set a deadline of 4 July for its decision to organise a strike a

The Indonesian government on Wednesday suspended sending migrant workers to Saudi Arabia effective as of August 1, until both countries had reached an agreement to better protect the wo

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Board for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers (BNP2TKI) should be held responsible for the beheading of Indonesian worker

Ismira Lutfia – The highest concentration of Indonesians facing the death penalty or who are on death row abroad are in Malaysia, the foreign ministry said.

Jakarta – The House of Representatives should accelerate the deliberation of the domestic workers bill and ratify the UN convention on migrant workers to improve legal protection for ho

Indonesia's support for an international convention on domestic workers must be followed by the enactment of a domestic workers' law in Indonesia, Amnesty International said today.

Jakarta – Community-based organizations can play big role in providing a place for former child laborers, preventing them from returning to the worst form of labor, activists marking Wo

Ismira Lutfia – The government says that at a market-based wage for Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia accommodates the interests of all parties.

Protestors brought business to a halt in Cikarang, Bekasi, on Friday as demonstrators demanded the passage of a bill that would create a social security agency.

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – More Indonesian workers will suffer from unfair working environments if the government does not stop businesses from trying to dissolve labor unions, lab

Ismira Lutfia – The newly signed amendment to the Indonesia-Malaysia migrant workers agreement may give Indonesians working in the neighboring country more benefits, but labor activists

Jakarta – Vice President Boediono reprimanded stakeholders, and especially the Remuneration Council, that they should not consider decreasing wages in a bid to increase investment.

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Lack of transparency in labor recruitment and placement overseas has hindered justice and the protection of migrant workers' basic rights, the Supreme Audit Age

Kuala Lumpur – Indonesian labour agents expect to dispatch 1,000 maids to Malaysia every month after Jakarta lifts a two-year moratorium later this month.

Fitri R., Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Indonesian migrant workers from West Nusa Tenggara expressed relief and happiness upon returning home on Friday, after having spent months surviv

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – The country's effort to increase employment has not been followed by assurances of decent work and worker protection as the number of contract-based work

Jakarta – Thousands of workers from the Greater Jakarta area are ready to hold a rally starting from the Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic circle and leading to the Presidential Palace to ob

Elisabeth Oktofani – Mulyadi is 25, but he's lost count of how many times in the past three years he has switched factories.

Ronna Nirmala & Ulma Haryanto – Indonesian government officials have been accused of attempting to bribe workers planning to march in antigovernment protests on Labor Day.

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia says it will resume sending migrant workers to Malaysia after it implemented a ban in June 2009 because of a spate of shocking abuse cases and the general

Mataram – At least 50 workers rallied at Mataram Prosecutor's Office to demand justice following the alleged beating of a colleague by a village official.

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Despite higher economic growth in the last several years, Indonesia has not been able to translate its economic improvements into quality employment due

Following a police raid on gambling at a market in Papua on Wednesday, hundreds of people retaliated by attacking the police chief and the precinct office.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Two employees of mining giant Freeport were killed in Papua after the car they were traveling in overturned and caught fire, a company spokesman said on Frid

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A Freeport employee suffered from a gunshot wound after yet another shooting around the company's mining area in Papua.

Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) says the protection and placement of Indonesian migrant workers is ineffective.

Shirley Christie – Youth unemployment in Indonesia is five times higher than average, presenting a clear challenge to the government, according to the World Bank.

Ismira Lutfia – An activist for migrant worker rights has welcomed a plan to sign an agreement on the placement of Indonesian workers in Malaysia, but warns the deal falls short of ensu

Scavengers, street vendors and other informal workers are falling further behind as the global economy recovers, amid rising competition from hordes of new working poor, a study release

Jakarta – National Education Minister Muhammad Nuh says half of Indonesia's labor force is comprised of primary school graduates, some of whom have not even completed six years of basic

Imung Yuniardi, Semarang – A lack of regulation has been blamed for the rampant exploitation of domestic workers in Central Java, where over 40 percent of recruits are teenage girls, a

Jakarta – More domestic workers in the country will suffer mistreatment unless the government and the House of Representatives counterparts pass a law on domestic workers protection, ac

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Activists will demand stronger protection of domestic workers from excessive working hours, physical and sexual abuse and underpaid and unpaid salaries during the observation of Domesti

Jakarta – Thirty percent of university graduates are unemployed, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar says.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Unions representing thousands of employees of PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) have demanded that the state-run aircraft maker pay workers' January salaries a