New York – Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said on Tuesday that his government was fully aware of problems in restive Papua and was working to find a way to deliver autonom

We fully support the strike by PT Freeport Indonesia workers for better wages and conditions.

Agus Triyono & Camelia Pasandaran – The Indonesian government has been accused of "lying" about what it knew before Indonesian migrant worker Ruyati binti Satubi was beheaded by aut

Freeport Indonesia's labor union plans not to continue with a tripartite mediation involving the government and is seeking to discuss the matter directly with the company in order to en

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) has urged the government to review the 2003 Labor Law to end prolonged industrial conflicts between employers a

Jakarta – Recent violence in Papua in July and August underscores the urgent need for the government to reassess its military approach and place respect for human rights at the heart of

There are allegations about [multinational private security corporation] SecuriCor led [at Freeport] by someone called Ian Church being involved in intimidating workers.

Batam – About 1,000 workers at a Singapore-owned shipyard engineering firm in Batam went on the rampage on Tuesday, setting fire to an office, equipment room and several vehicles after

Andi Hajramurni and Rizal Harahap, Makassar/Pekanbaru – The Malaysian government's plan to deport illegal migrant workers back to Indonesia has left local administrations scrambling to

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Timika, Indonesia – Thousands of workers at Freeport-McMoran's gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia began a monthlong strike Thursday over a wage dispute.

Thousands of workers at Freeport McMoRan's giant gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia prepared to go on a month-long strike over wages at midnight on Wednesday, a workers union sai

Brigitta Kinadi – With news outlets scrambling to cover the latest stories about Indonesian migrant workers abroad, from a beheading in Saudi Arabia to the latest roundup of illegals in

Max Lane – I was very active between 1991 and 1999 in the international solidarity movement for Timorese independence.

Washington – More than two dozen US lawmakers on Monday urged Indonesia to free Papuan activist Filep Karma, saying that his detention raised questions about the emerging US ally's comm

Dessy Sagita – Labor activists demanded on Friday that four state-owned insurance companies immediately comply with the terms of a pending bill on social security, in a bid to minimize

Alex Rayfield and Claudia King – Perched on the western rim of the Melanesian Pacific, adjacent to independent Papua New Guinea is West Papua.

Lauren Zumbach – Anis Hidayah, executive director of Migrant Care, was one of seven people around the globe awarded the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human Rights

Dessy Sagita – The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry said on Sunday that it had warned companies about paying this year's Lebaran bonus on time, and invited the public to report thos

Makassar – The South Sulawesi provincial government is drafting a law to ensure that maids receive a minimum wage and have the right to at least one day off a week.

Elly Burhaini Faizal – The beheading of Ruyati binti Satubi, a migrant worker from Bekasi, West Java, last month triggered a moratorium on sending Indonesian workers to Saudi Arabia.

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) called on the government and the House of Representatives to ratify a 1990 UN convention on

Jakarta – Pilots with state-run carrier Garuda Indonesia cut short their 24-hour strike Thursday after company officials agreed to reopen negotiations over pay and working conditions.

Ismira Lutfia – Activists have welcomed a new policy that may allow the direct hiring of Indonesian migrant workers by prospective Malaysian employers, but they insist the mechanism mus

Ulma Haryanto – The head of the workers' union at a Converse factory in Sukabumi, West Java, dismissed on Wednesday a recent report by The Associated Press alleging rampant rights viola

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman – Youth organizations and labor unions appealed to the House of Representatives on Thursday to ensure the immediate passage of the controver

Jakarta – The government should revise the 2004 Migrant Worker Law to better protect Indonesians working overseas amid rising concerns for their safety, experts say.

Niniek Karmini and Stephen Wright, Sukabumi, Indonesia – Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them dogs and

Striking workers at Freeport-McMoran's gold and copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province have returned to work after their union said the firm agreed to its demands in the latest round

Bandung – Thousands of workers staged a rally in Bandung on Tuesday in protest of a city administration policy that they feared would trigger mass layoffs.

Palu – The Labor Affairs Agency has criticized local companies of being reluctant to register their employees as members of Jamsostek, the national social and work insurance program.

There's been another call by West Papuans for dialogue with Indonesia's government towards making the Papua region peaceful.

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.

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

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

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