Jakarta – The government should be more serious about controlling the rising rate of inflation.

Ismira Lutfia – Migrant Care says it has raised almost Rp 100 million ($11,000) in less than a month to help repatriate hundreds of Indonesian migrant workers languishing under a bridge

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Several migrant worker placement companies (PJTKI) have been dodging bylaws to protect migrant workers in certain regencies, transferring workers to neighboring

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The government, employers, labor unions and insurers have called for a revision of the 2004 national social security system law to include five mandatory s

Elisabeth Oktofani – The government moratorium on sending Indonesian domestic migrant workers to Malaysia has worsened the unemployment situation in the country, as alternative jobs hav

Medan, North Sumatra – Thousands of workers from the Medan Industrial Area (KIM) II rallied at Lubuk Pakam District Court in Deli Serdang regency on Monday demanding the court stop repo

Fadli, Batam – Up to 1,200 people could lose their jobs following the announcement that a Japan-based electronics manufacturer plans to close its plant in Batam, Riau Islands, in April.

Made Arya Kencana & Ismira Lutfia, Denpasar – Linda Gumelar, the minister for women's empowerment and child protection, on Monday called on the government to end the moratorium on s

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Employers are seeking a win-win solution to a deadlock regarding labor law revisions in an effort to create an investment-friendly law that will also provi

Jakarta – The number of permanently employed workers in the formal sector is steadily declining and currently stands at only 35 percent of all formal workers.

Jakarta – Activists warn that Indonesian migrant workers will still be highly susceptible to violent treatment without significant improvement in legal protection provided by the govern

Ismira Lutfia, Indonesia – Countries that send and receive migrant workers are poorly lacking in protection policies, New-York based Human Rights Watch said in a report on Saturday.

Surabaya, East Java – Hundreds of workers in East Java took to the streets again Friday to oppose the 2011 City Minimum Wage (UMK), which they deemed inadequate and against the aspects

In excess of 1,700 Indonesian maids are "languishing in different jails" around Saudi Arabia, most on alleged charges of immorality, while another 300 are sheltering in Indonesian Embas

Anita Rachman & Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Twelve Indonesian Islamic organizations, including the two largest, demanded on Tuesday a temporary ban on sending migrant workers to Saudi

Arlina Arshad, Rawa Lumbu, Indonesia – Undeterred by sickening tales of abuse, Indonesian women are lining up to work as maids in Saudi Arabia where in just a few years they can achieve

Jakarta – Thousands of workers in and around an industrial estate in East Jakarta went on a daylong strike on Friday over the new monthly minimum wage announced for the capital.

Kupang – Thousands of Indonesian migrant workers from East Nusa Tenggara have fallen victim to human trafficking practices given the fact that they were recruited through illegal proced

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The task of helping migrant workers who suffered abuse at the hands of their employers does not end after they've been brought back home, women's rights activis

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The social security programs for workers need to be overhauled to provide social protection to the majority of people as well as to speed up economic devel

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has taken the manpower minister to task over the government's apparent lack of protection for migrant workers and called for a free

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration on Friday said the increase in the new minimum wage for next year would be 15.8 percent, a move that labor unions lambasted as t

Elisabeth Oktofani, Jakarta – Among the millions of who flock to Jakarta in search of jobs each year, many will tell you they can subsist on minimum wage, but it's unlikely to be any fu

Jakarta – The Jakarta Administration has increased the provincial minimum wage (UMP) for 2011 to Rp 1,290,000, (US$120) or an increase by 15.38 percent from the 2010 minimum wage of Rp

Liputan6.com, Yogyakarta – Scores of workers in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta from the Security Employees Union (SPK) and the United Indonesian Labour Movement (PPBI) demonstrated

Jakarta – Migrant Care, an NGO that focusing on the welfare of Indonesian workers abroad, says the government's initiative to provide migrant workers with cellular phones is an "irrelev

Jakarta – More than 100 former employees of the McDonald's fast food restaurant chain held a rally in front of the Jakarta Police on Jl. Gatot Subroto, South Jakarta.

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta, Indonesia – She arrived in Saudi Arabia a high-spirited 23-year-old, eager to start work as a maid to help support her family back home.

Armando Siahaan & Antara, Jakarta – An Indonesian minister tasked last week with ensuring the welfare of a migrant worker tortured and abused in Saudi Arabia was still stuck here on

Dessy Sagita & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – Amid the furor over the abuse of Indonesian maids abroad, questions are being raised over which government body is ultimately responsible for th

Jakarta – A Saudi Arabian woman has admitted to burning her Indonesian maid, Sumiati, with an electric iron and other forms of torture because she was "reckless" in performing her dutie

Sanggau, West Kalimantan – The Women's Empowerment, Family Planning and Child Protection Agency head, Gorgonius Theno, is condemning private companies that are hiring underage workers.

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Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The government is considering whether it will equip Indonesian migrant workers overseas with cell phones to better enable them to reach officials in the event t

Ali Kotarumalos, Jakarta – Indonesia demanded an investigation on Friday into reports that a domestic worker was allegedly killed by her employer in Saudi Arabia and thrown into dumpste

Jakarta – Sumiati binti Salan Mustapa arrived in Saudi Arabia four months ago in search of a better life.

BATAM, Riau Islands – Workers with a number of labor unions in Batam on Wednesday protested the implementation of a law revision that they said would degrade their rights.

Medan, North Sumatra – Workers in North Sumatra staged a rally at the governor's office in Medan on Wednesday, demanding the government immediately implement a law on social security.

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Indonesian migrant workers are estimated to contribute US$7.1 billion in remittance to the country this year.

Zoe Kenny, Yogyakarta – A labour dispute is unfolding in this Central Java city that highlights many of the intransigent problems Indonesian workers face under the neoliberal government

Zely Ariane – If there was an easier way to struggle for their rights, the workers from the PT.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Thousands of workers from across West Java staged a rally in Bandung on Tuesday protesting a plan to revise Law No 13/2003 on manpower, claiming it was plann

Slamet Susanto, Bantul – Cigarette producer partners (MPS) are earning less than the Rp 1.5 million (US$150) a month they received four years ago producing hand-rolled cigarettes for a

Made Arya Kencaya, Denpasar – Hundreds of employees of state-owned Telekomunikasi Indonesia rallied on Monday in front of the Bali Regional House of Representatives.

The newly-formed union SPK-PPBI (Security Workers Union, aligned with the United Movement of Labour Indonesia) is calling for solidarity from unions and individuals.

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Though activists and businesspeople have welcomed a ministerial decree ending a dispute between two bodies with overlapping mandates on migrant workers, many do

Jakarta – The minister of manpower on Thursday vowed to "eventually" abolish labor outsourcing, starting with restrictions on the scope of the practice.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Migrant Care, an organization providing advocacy for troubled migrant workers, has recently been at loggerheads with labor exporter associations over labor

Labour activists from the Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM), the Yogyakarta Labour Alliance (ABY), the Greater Jakarta Labour Federation of Struggle (FBPJ) and the United Indonesian Labo

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Indonesian labor unions grouped under the Asian Labor Networking in International Financing Institutions (ALNI) said "slavery" occurs in projects funded by