Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (Riaupulp) will dismiss up to 2,000 workers, or around half of its total workforce, to help stop the company from sinking amid

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Cimahi – Thousands of laborers from various factories in Cimahi, West Java, staged a rally protesting Cimahi Mayor Itoc Tochija's decision to set the city's minimum wa

Jakarta – Hundreds of workers staged a rally outside of the Presidential Office in Central Jakarta on Wednesday to protest a joint ministerial decree (SKB) that would take power to set

Jakarta – Demanding an end to the minimum-wage talks deadlock between employers and workers, thousands of workers have rallied at the East Java governor's office in Surabaya on Wednesda

Mabsuti Ibnu Marhas, Jakarta – Around one thousand workers in Banten province resonated protests against new regulation on workers pay on Wednesday by protesting at Banten Governor offi

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Workers and activists in East Java have joined forces with other provinces in opposition to the joint ministerial decree on minimum wages, which they say violates

Sim Leoi Leoi, Putrajaya – Both Malaysia and Indonesia will undertake a review of the memorandum of agreement signed 11 years ago on the terms and service of foreign workers.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Thousands of workers blockaded the east gate of the Padalarang toll road in Bandung on Wednesday in protest against a recent decision on the minimum wage.

Ahmad Fikri, Jakarta – Hundred of workers in Bandung, West Java clashed with police outside Gedung Sate in a protest to reject the Joint Regulation of four ministers which rule the mini

Jakarta – Believing that the government has failed to side with them, workers have started campaigning for people not to vote in the 2009 legislative and presidential elections.

Dini M., Surabaya – Around 500 laborers representing East Java's Indonesian Laborers Union Alliance Congress (KASBI) has urged the government to annul the four-ministerial decree limiti

Henni Marlina, Jakarta – Hundreds of demonstrators from the Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) held a demonstration against a joint decree (SKB) signed by four ministers on wages.

Indah Setiawati – The Bali Manpower and Transmigration Agency will unlikely be able to meet its target unemployment rate of 3.5 percent due to the global economic slowdown caused in par

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Several provinces have announced a significant rise in workers' minimum wage, but the amount of the increase is facing opposition from certain business groups.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – At least 15,000 employees of West Java's export-oriented companies have been laid off, with the decline in productivity caused by the current global economic

Andra Wisnu, Denpasar – Laborers gathered under the Bali chapter of the National Front for the Struggle of Indonesian Workers (FNPBI) rallied in Denpasar on Wednesday opposing a recent

Syaipul Bakhori, Jakarta – Hundreds of workers occupied a timber company in Jambi demanding their unpaid salaries and severance pay.

Dini Mawuntyas, Jakarta – Around three hundred workers demonstrated at the Regional House of Representatives in Surabaya East Java to demand rise on low pay.

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – In the weeks before and after the Idul Fitri holidays many middle-class households are busy with domestic matters.

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – The recent dismissal by management of two contract-based workers at a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food restaurant here has been met with protests from labor

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Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Slavery practices at palm oil plantations in Sabah, Malaysia, have affected thousands of Indonesian migrant workers and their children, the National Commission

Luh De Suriyani, Contributor, Denpasar – The majority of domestic workers, which number about two hundred thousand on Bali island, have yet to receive their two basic rights for regular

Timika, Papua – Hundreds of workers at heavy equipment maker PT Trakindo Utama staged a protest at the Timika Transmigration and Manpower Agency office on Tuesday.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Misrin, 32, has never received an Idul Fitri bonus (THR) since he started working as a daily-paid employee at Sina Kasih palm oil plantation in Serdang, Bedagai

The government must help 1.5 million Indonesians find work before the end of the year if it is to meet its target of filling 2.5 million jobs in 2008, Manpower and Transmigration Minist

Jakarta – Scores of Transjakarta bus drivers serving the Corridor II (Pulo Gadung - Harmoni) and Corridor III (Kalideres - Harmoni) have gone on strike since early Monday morning

Ben Doherty and Sarah Smiles – A new guest worker scheme, this one to bring East Timorese workers to the labour-starved Kimberley region of Western Australia, appears likely to be annou

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Some 7,000 workers from PT Hardaya Aneka Shoe Industry (HASI), a former Nike supplier, began striking Thursday in Tangerang to protest company policy on Idul F

Jakarta – The government needs to place decent and productive employment at the center of its socio-economic policies to ensure a link between economic growth and job creation, the Inte

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The freedom of association that Indonesian workers have enjoyed since the start of the reform movement in 1998 is now set to backfire on them, a seminar heard T

Fadli, Batam – Some 1,000 workers employed by foreign companies in Batam staged a rally on Thursday demanding an end to the practice of outsourcing in the region, which they said had le

Kuala Lumpur – Indonesia will seek higher wages for its nationals working as domestic helpers in Malaysia as the cost of living rises, the country's ambassador said in an interview publ

Nurni Sulaiman, Balikpapan – Up to 3,000 forestry workers went on strike in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, on Tuesday, demanding the government raise the monthly provincial wage by at leas

Fadli, Batam – As many as 2,000 workers of PT Jaya Asiatic Shipyard in Batam, Riau Islands, went on strike Monday, demanding the company fix its poor work conditions.

Samarinda – The struggle by workers to seek revisions to the provincial minimum wage (UMP) recommenced yesterday, Wednesday July 23.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – State-owned labor insurance firm PT Jamsostek is set to expand its membership among "high-potential" workers in the informal sector, departing from its traditio

Samarinda – Hundreds of workers from the East Kalimantan National Liberation Front (FPN) in the provincial city of Samarinda plan to take to the streets again to day, Monday July 14, to

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Sixteen years have passed since 40-year-old Rina (not her real name) started working as a cleaner at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

Ario Adityo – Indonesian migrant workers demonstrated along with thousands of Hong Kong citizens on July 1.

Ulfa Ilyas, Jakarta – Around 80 people gathered together under the banner of the National front for Indonesian Workers Struggle (FNPBI) and held another demonstration at ExxonMobil and

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A foreign company in Medan, North Sumatra, has reportedly dismissed workers for planning to form a labor union at their work place.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Leaders of Lhok Nga and Leupung districts in Aceh Besar regency have asked French Lafarge co-financed cement factory PT Semen Andalas Indonesia (SAI) to

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Seven labor unions went to City Hall on Friday and urged the Jakarta administration to organize a discussion, to be facilitated by the manpower agency, to revis

Joniansyah, Tangerang – More than 18 thousand employees from various companies in the Jakarta satellite city of Tangerang are now unemployed.

Jakarta – Workers unions say that 10 years after Indonesia ratified the International Labor Organization (ILO) convention on freedom of association, workers continue to face discriminat

Mariani Dewi, Jakarta – The gap in salaries between managers and clerics in Indonesia widened last year from 2006 in part because of a shortage in talent amid the country's growing econ

Jakarta – Homosexuality is not a disease but a social reality that the public should learn to respect, the executive director of the Women's Journal Foundation (YJP), Mariana Amiruddin,

Timika, Papua – As many as 700 workers from PT Trakindo Utama went on strike in Timika on Friday to demand higher salaries.

Ahmad Fikri, Bandung – Labour organisations have already started socialising May Day, which is due to fall on May 1, by protesting at the Gedung Sate building complex in the West Java p