Riyadi Suparno, Jakarta – Both employers and labor unions have come to the conclusion that the controversial 2003 labor law needs to be amended, but they differ markedly in their views

Markus Makur and Angela Flassy, Timika/Jayapura – The authorities have increased security measures at mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia by slipping a police officer into each of the bus

Jakarta – The Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (SBMI) lambasted the government for failing to protect Indonesian workers overseas, saying more than 1,000 of them had died while doing th

Bekasi – The Bekasi branch of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) announced Tuesday it had received reports from 15 companies about their plans to lay off a total of 30,000 em

Anita Rachman – Police are forever the friends of industry, and never of labor organizations, much less any single laborer, representatives of the nation's unions told National Police C

Muhammad Taufik, Jakarta – About eight hundred workers of a textile company in East Java went on strike on Monday (25/1) to demand better annual rise on their wage this year, and threat

Oyos Saroso H.N, Bandarlampung – Activists from NGOs in Lampung have voiced their protest over the ongoing visit by 10 Lampung officials and 15 council members to Hong Kong, Macau and S

Anita Rachman – Lax safety standards on job sites are behind the relatively high rate of work-related accidents each year, a safety official said.

Jakarta – Hundreds of workers from labor unions across Jakarta rallied outside City Hall on Tuesday to demand a revision to the provincial minimum wage, which they said was too small.

Jakarta – State-owned insurance company PT Jamsostek has warned of massive layoffs this year following the implementation of the ASEAN-China free trade area (ACFTA) starting this year.

Ardian Wibisono & Antara – In the latest and most authoritative warning about a new region-wide free-trade agreement with China, an executive with the state social security provider

Around 200 employees of Indosiar, a private television station in Indonesia, were staging a rally in front of their office building on Jalan Daan Mogot in West Jakarta on Monday demandi

Ulma Haryanto – More than 7,800 Indonesians laid off as a result of the global economic crisis filed complaints with the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute last year, the institute's director

An artist on Monday called for a statue of a labor activist to be erected outside the House of Representatives to remind lawmakers about labor struggles.

Serang – Banten Governor Ratu Atut Chosiyah criticized the Remuneration Council, the tripartite body recommending the minimum wage every year, following a series of rallies demanding re

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The mushrooming labor unions have been left toothless as they have no strong network with the grassroots level nor political capital to fight for pro-labor

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) provincial administration has set the 2010 provincial minimum wage (UMP) at Rp 800,000 (about US$80), up from the current Rp 725,0

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Employers have tasked the government and labor unions with settling unresolved issues on contract hiring and high severance pay, in a bid to foster a frien

Camelia Pasandaran – Labour relations problems are holding back the growth of Indonesian industry, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said on Friday.

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Despite claiming to have the most women worldwide employed in its ranks, the job of domestic worker is a marginalized one that offers its participants a life a

Arientha Primanita – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo has rejected calls from labor unions to boost the minimum wage for local workers.

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – Underpaid female workers are turning to prostitution to make ends meet, union activists say.

Kudus – A group of at least 1,500 workers from cigarette companies in Kudus, Central Java, staged a protest Wednesday rejecting the new cigarette excise imposed by the government.

The number of female employees and job seekers declined in the year to August 2009, the Central Statistics Agency's (BPS) Jakarta bureau announced Tuesday, at a rate not mirrored by mal

Anita Rachman – Indonesia will ratify the UN convention protecting migrant workers within two years, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar announced on Tuesday.

Adli and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Batam/Malang – Around 3,000 workers from 200 companies operating in Batam staged a protest Monday, urging the city's mayor to set their minimum wage equiv

Alan Boulton, the International Labor Organization (ILO) representative in Jakarta, will conclude his eight-year assignment in Indonesia on Nov. 30, 2009.

Jakarta – Troubled migrant workers have cried out against rampant extortion and sexual harassment at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on their return to Indonesia.

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Thousands of workers staged a rally at the Central Java gubernatorial office on Thursday demanding that minimum wages in 2010 be raised to meet the cost of decent

Suherdjoko, Semarang, Central Java – Thousands of workers staged a rally in front the Central Java Gubernatorial Office in Semarang on Thursday, demanding the administration regulate th

Jakarta – The government should cease sending low-skilled labor abroad to prevent the continued abuse of Indonesian migrant workers by their employers, a coalition of civil society grou

Jakarta – Despite some progress in coping with the impacts of the global financial crisis, labor and social trends in the country this fiscal year will likely remain gloomy, the Interna

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – During the year ending September 2009, more than 1 million people have joined the state workers' insurance firm PT Jamsostek's list of non-active members as the i

Julia Zappei, Putrajaya – Indonesia's leader requested swift justice Thursday for maids allegedly abused while on the job in Malaysia – charges that have strained normally amicable rela

Jakarta – Twenty employees of a company distributing fashion accessories will file charges against their employer after he allegedly abused and took them hostage, their lawyer said Tues

Semarang – Thousands of workers took to the streets of Central Java's capital on Tuesday to protest a Rp 50,000 difference in the proposed minimum monthly wage.

Ismira Lutfia – Some 406 migrant workers were repatriated from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, with most complaining that they had not been paid by their employers.

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Labor unions in Tangerang, Banten, have rejected the remuneration council's decision to set the minimum cost of living in 2010 at Rp 1,170,000 per month.

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Nurfika Osman – Activists on Tuesday called for the government to pay more attention to the health needs of the country's migrant workers, saying most were not properly taken care of by

Jakarta – Labor rights activists urged the government to be more proactive in protecting Indonesian migrant workers that have fallen victim to abuse.

Bandung – Hundreds of workers rallied outside the West Java governor's office in Bandung on Thursday, demanding that the governor pressure municipal and regency administrations to raise

Jakarta – Indonesia expects remittances from its overseas workers to rise to around $10 billion next year as the global economy improves, the head of a state agency in charge of migrant

Markus Makur, Timika – Hundreds of employees at PT Freeport Indonesia refused to resume work Monday in protest at the deteriorating security situation on road from Timika to Tembagapura

Baban Gandapurnama, Bandung – Workers from the Preparatory Committee for the Indonesian Labour Movement Union (KP-PPBI) are demanding a minimum wage increase across all regions in 2010

Markus Makur, Timika – The wives and children of PT Freeport Indonesia employees rallied at the Mimika legislative council office in Papua on Thursday, demanding the giant US-based gold

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – Contract teachers and employees in Malang regency, East Java, have demanded that Malang Regent Sujud Pribadi issue a decree to clarify their status as tea

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Anita Rachman – Nongovernmental organizations on Tuesday urged the incoming cabinet to establish a new policy protecting the rights of migrant workers and to ratify the UN's 1990 Migran

Achmad Faisal, Surabaya – Thousands of workers from the PT Maspion Group in Surabaya, Sidoarjo and Gresik, had their wage cut over the weekend after the East Java High Court won the cas