Women domestic workers in Indonesia face human rights abuses at work, including economic exploitation, poor working conditions and gender-based discrimination.

Nurfika Osman – Almost half of Indonesian overseas workers – or three million people – are victims of human trafficking, according to an annual report released on Tuesday by the US Stat

Ismira Lutfia – Domestic workers' advocates have lashed out at the House of Representatives for bumping a bill on protecting their rights from the list of priority legislation for delib

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Migrant Care is one of the NGOs providing legal advocacy for troubled migrant workers.

Nurfika Osman – The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry has set up a task force to curb the number of migrant workers heading to Malaysia in breach of a government moratorium on sendin

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Every three months at least 500 Indonesians travel to Malaysia and start work illegally, despite Indonesia's ban on allowing informal workers to migrate to t

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Jon Lamb – The East Timorese government is refusing to accept a proposal by Australian-based exploration company Woodside Petroleum to develop the Greater Sunrise gas deposit in the Tim

Desy Nurhayati, Denpasar – The Bali Tourism Union is calling on the provincial administration to immediately set a minimum wage for their members.

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Some 200 employees of cement company PT Semen Kupang are angry they have still not been paid their pensions and allowances after being made redundant by the co

Ismira Lutfia & Putri Prameshwari – Despite the optimism aired by Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar that the president would sign a long-awaited agreement on In

Jakarta – A Javanese tradition that holds that domestic workers must be considered as part of the families that employ them is a major hurdle for passage of a House domestic worker prot

Kuala Lumpur – The Indonesian government's bans on sending migrant workers to Malaysia will remain in force after both countries failed to agree on a minimum wage.

Ismira Lutfia – If Malaysians seem to have been unfazed by the almost yearlong ban on the placement of Indonesian migrant workers, it is because an underground business has continued to

Ismira Lutfia & Camelia Pasandaran – A joint task force will be formed to monitor a long-awaited agreement to protect Indonesian workers in Malaysia after it is signed today.

Ismira Lutfia – As the government pushes for protection of domestic workers overseas, activists on Sunday said it must start by passing a law guaranteeing their right to fair treatment

Activists demanded Saturday that Marsinah, a labor activist found dead in 1993 in East Java, be honored as a national heroine.

Anung Wendyartaka – To this day there has yet to be any visible sign of a breakthrough in the improvement of workers' standard of living.

Aidi Yursal & Dessy Sagita – The May Day banners have been put away but protesters in Jakarta plan to hit the streets again this week because the president did not show up on Saturd

The number of women leaving Indonesia, legally or illegally, has been steadily climbing over the past decade, according to the National Authority for the Placement and Protection of Ind

Barbara Surk – Reforms undertaken by governments in the Middle East to protect domestic workers, including from Indonesia, from abuse are insufficient to shield women working as house m

Adisti Dini Indreswari, Jakarta – Temporary workers at Jakarta International Container Terminal at Tanjung Priok Seaport rallied outside their office in demand for permanent status in w

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Nurfika Osman – Incidents of physical, sexual and psychological violence against Indonesian migrant workers abroad continue as the government abjectly fails at protecting its citizens o

Nurfika Osman – A Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration fact-finding team on Tuesday said the firm at the center of a labor riot in Batam last week was riddled with problems.

Batam, Riau Islands – A legislator said wide gaps in both salaries and work benefits provided by PT.

Farouk Arnaz, Ismira Lutfia & Nivell Rayda – About 5,000 workers at a dry dock company on Batam Island rioted on Thursday, attacking their company's executives and foreign staff, mo

Ahmad Fikri, Jakarta – Dozens of workers in West Java took part in a rally on Tuesday (20/4) outside Bandung City Hall as a preliminary act to the international worker's day that falls

Wasti Atmodjo, Denpasar – Indonesian migrant workers overseas sent Rp 100 trillion in remittances to their families in their hometowns in 2009, data shows.

Bandung – Six former hotel employees who were fired from their jobs two years ago marched from Bandung to Jakarta on Monday to appeal for support from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Cilacap, Central Java – The amount of cash sent back home by Indonesian migrant workers to families in Cilacap regency last year reached Rp 372 billion – almost one-third of the adminis

Ismira Lutfia & Camelia Pasandaran – Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Muhaimin Iskandar said on Monday that the government would maintain its bans on sending migrant workers

Ivansyah, Jakarta – Executives of the State oil and gas company Pertamina in its facility in Balongan, West Java met protesting workers on Friday (19/3) after three days of protests to

Jakarta – Activists are calling on all household workers to stop working and march in the streets during the nationwide strike called for May 1-3 to push for the formulation and passage

Malaysia's laissez-faire approach on domestic workers ignores the huge disparities in bargaining power between a woman trying to escape massive unemployment in Indonesia and her Mala

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang, East Java – Their salaries might be too small to suffice daily needs, but loyal cigarette workers are ready to extend a helping hand as their employers fac

Nurfika Osman – Two national rights commissions have expressed concern over the number of underage children working in the country, classifying it as child abuse.

Jakarta – Activists dismissed the government's claim of having achieved "success" in taking home thousands of migrant workers who were experiencing problems abroad.

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – A common interest to ensure resilience to China's growing domination over the Indonesian market has brought big employers and labor unions together in a prev

Putri Prameshwari – Employees who were recently laid off by several companies without prior discussion must be taken back, Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Muhaimin Iskandar said

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Commemorating what they called domestic worker national day, which falls on Feb.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The government has promised to provide more attention on reviving manufacturing, service sectors, among the hardest hit by the global crisis last year, in or

Some employers choose to hire a girl rather than an adult because they want someone who will work for less money and who will be easier to boss around.

Anita Rachman – At least four million of 58.8 million children across the nation are in employment, and of those at least 1.7 million are considered child laborers, according to a 2009

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – A hundred activists and domestic workers in Yogyakarta staged a rally Tuesday, protesting a governor decree that allegedly contravened a bylaw on domestic work

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Malaysia and Indonesia are close to signing a comprehensive agreement on migrant workers that will better protect Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia from

Ulum, Jakarta – Thousands of workers of the state steel producer Krakatau Steel rallied outside the Cilegon Regional Legislator's office on Tuesday (2/2) to demand immediate completion

Jakarta – Five hundred contract workers from PT Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) staged a protest on Monday in front of the main gate of Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakar

Adisti, Jakarta – Activities at Jakarta main seaport disrupted on Monday as around 400 workers staged a protest at the gate of Tanjung Priok Port to demand settlement of several industr

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