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Yudo Dahono, Jakarta – The State-Owned Enterprises Ministry has devised a plan to extend the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed train project to Surabaya in East Java to improve connectivity o

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Recipients of funds and training under the government's preemployment card may not be able to practice the skills they learn through the program beca

Bisnis, Jakarta – The Indonesian government noted that the number of layoffs caused by the coronavirus disease or COVID-19 pandemic had reached 3,05 million as of June 2, 2020.

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit Indonesian workers hard.

Evarukdijati, Sri Haryati, Jayapura, Papua – Papua's Law Enforcement Task Force arrested TW, a member of a criminal armed group that attacked PT Freeport employees in Kuala Kencana tha

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – Freelancers and entrepreneurs are among those who have been hit hard by the COVID-19 outbreak, many of whom are reporting income losses and declining acti

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – The Manpower Ministry says a total of 1.7 million workers have either lost their jobs or been furloughed by their employers during the coronavirus pandemic.

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – Malaysian authorities are set to deport around 4,800 undocumented Indonesian migrant workers being detained at several immigration custody centers, a local

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News Desk, Jakarta – Ogan Ilir Regent Ilyas Panji Alam has dismissed 109 medical workers at the Ogan Ilir Regional General Hospital (RSUD) in South Sumatra for striking over safety and

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The Trade Union Rights Centre (TURC) is calling on the government to reallocate its funding for the preemployment training program as cash assistance while pus

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Hundreds of Indonesian migrant workers recently returning to the country gathered in a crowd outside the Kemayoran Athletes Village makeshift hospital for COVI

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Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – Malaysian authorities arrested more than 1,300 undocumented migrants, including 421 Indonesian citizens, in a raid on Monday.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The mourning family of EP, an Indonesian crew member of a Chinese fishing vessel who died after receiving treatment in South Korea, has called on the governmen

Pacific Media Watch – The regent of Mimika in Papua has urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to temporarily close a mine in the regency owned by gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indon

Jakarta – The government is set to allow people under 45 years old to work outside their homes so as to prevent more people from being laid off amid mobility restrictions in place to c

Jakarta – The government has suspended entry for foreign workers during the COVID-19 outbreak following reports that hundreds of Chinese workers have tried to enter Southeast Sulawesi.

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – A viral video showing the burial at sea of an Indonesian crew member who allegedly endured poor working conditions aboard a Chinese fishing vessel has exposed

Jakarta – The regent of Mimika in Papua has urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to temporarily close a mine in the regency owned by gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia as the

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – A recent Manpower Ministry circular on holiday bonuses (THR) may violate workers' rights as it gives grounds for businesses to defer bonus payments, crit

Jeffrey Hutton, Jakarta – The first round of layoffs came in March and involved 476 trainees who had been readying themselves for work at Nike supplier Victory Chingluh in the Tangeran

Rising job losses and persistent xenophobia over the origins of the coronavirus are leading to growing resentment against Chinese migrant workers in Indonesia.

Febriana Firdaus – Thousands of workers at the world's largest copper and gold mine, run by U.S.-based Freeport McMoRan in the Indonesian province of Papua, have been instructed to rem

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) has spoken out against a circular issued by the Manpower Ministry that would purportedly allow employe

Jakarta – The Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) is urging President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to temporarily halt operations by mining companies around the country which they believe are negl

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The government's new preemployment card program, a mix of cash aid and training subsidy for unemployed workers, needs to be converted to full-fledged

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – Migrant Care called on the Indonesian government on Monday to avoid a heavy-handed approach to health security toward repatriating Indonesian migrant worker

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The number of unemployed people across the country increased slightly to 6.88 million in February, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) data reveals, although this

Beritasatu, Jakarta – Authorities in the Indonesian city of Surabaya have ordered more than 500 factory workers employed by tobacco giant Philip Morris to self-isolate after two of the

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – As COVID-19 arrests most industry activity and disrupts global supply chains, millions of Indonesian laborers face a greater risk of

Jakarta – Police in Indonesia's North Maluku province have arrested eight people linked to a workers' demonstration that turned violent at a nickel project run by France's Eramet and C

Soo Wern Jun, Kuala Lumpur – With the Raja Bot market ordered to shut on April 28, many migrant workers who earn a living there have been left with insufficient funds to see them throu

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – A coalition of three major labor unions in the country calling itself the Indonesian Labor Workers Assembly (MPBI) is preparing to organize May Day digital str

Around 110,000 eligible recipients of the preemployment card, a government-funded unemployment benefit and skill training program, have completed their courses, entitling them to recei

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – In the good times, businesspeople, government officials and even international institutions have slammed Indonesia's labor legislation, calling it rigid and a

Jakarta – More Indonesians have lost their jobs during the coronavirus crisis as the government's flagship unemployment benefits program, the pre-employment card, registered 8.6 millio

Jakarta – Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Chairperson Asfinawati says that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's decision to postpone the deliberations on the sections of the Draft

Francisca Christy Rosana, Bisnis, Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI) lamented the government's decision, especially the Manpower Ministry's, to allow compa

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Key business groups have expressed opposition to the decision to delay deliberation of the labor provisions in the omnibus bill on job creation, saying it wil

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's restaurant chains and retailers are struggling to fulfill their obligations to their employees while trying to keep their business afloat amid the C

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's flagship unemployment benefits program, the pre-employment card, has come under criticism for the inability of its online tra

Ester Nuky, Primus Dorimulu, Jakarta – The government has always planned to provide offline training courses for job seekers in the government's pre-employment card from the very begin

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The management of the preemployment card, a government-funded unemployment benefit and skills training program, has defended the program following pu

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) is asking the government to review the form and type of training provided by the pre-employment card program.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – The Indonesian Navy intercepted 20 undocumented Indonesian migrant workers returning from Malaysia trying to sneak past border authorities throu

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Thresa Sandra Desfika, Lenny Tristia Tambun, Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and the House of Representatives have agreed to postpone deliberation on labor issu

Ruslan Sangadji and Dian Septiari, Palu – Local governments have shown a lack of trust in Chinese workers employed in numerous projects throughout the country, potentially signaling a