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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 – 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.

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