Karawang – Around 3,000 workers from the Karawang district branch of the Fraternity of Indonesian Muslim Workers (PPMI) organised a convoy in the West Java industrial zone on Wednesday November 11.

Fadli, Batam – In an attempt to maintain a positive environment for business, the government has pledged to guarantee the safety of foreign investment companies by providing proper security measure

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Up until August, unemployment reached 7.56 million people, an increase of 320,000 people from the same period last year.

Jakarta – The governors of two key Indonesian provinces say they will not obey a central government directive changing how minimum wages are set, posing a challenge to President Joko Widodo.

Jakarta – Labor activists have pointed fingers at the Jakarta Police for allegedly committing violent acts when they tried to disperse a labor protest from in front of the State Palace in Central J

Jakarta – As many as 24 workers were arrested during a demonstration in front of State Palace on Friday demanding the government revise its new regulation regarding the annual minimum wage determin

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) has criticized the police for allegedly beating up two of its activists during a labor rally at the State Palace on Friday.

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Thousands of workers from dozens of alliances in Greater Jakarta staged a protest against Government Regulation (PP) No.

Jakarta – Thousands of workers from Jakarta and its satellite cities have gathered near National Monument (Monas) park in Central Jakarta to reject the new payment formula as stipulated in newly is

Jakarta – Hundreds of workers took part in a street rally in Jakarta on Wednesday, expressing their dissatisfaction at the newly announced government regulation on the calculation of minimum-wage i

Serang, Banten – To prevent local people from becoming strangers in their own home, there should be no more foreign workers flocking to Banten province, the student wing of one of the country's key

Jakarta – Despite a threat from the management of state-owned toll road operator PT Jasa Marga, around 1,000 outsourced workers will go ahead with their plan to strike next week, on Oct.

Jakarta – The Jakarta city Manpower and Transmigration Agency has proposed using an old formula to decide the 2016 minimum wage by taking into account items in the cost of living [KHL] in the city,

Arif Gunawan Sulistiyono, Jakarta – A labor union rejected the government's plan to apply a new formula for an annual wage raise, unless the Manpower Ministry opened up the possibility of negotiati

The ITUC has strongly criticised the decision of the Indonesian Government to change the minimum wage fixing system, eliminating any role for unions in the process.

Slamet Susanto and Ganug Nugroho Adi, Bantul, Yogyakarta/Surakarta, Central Java – The majority of workers in the handicraft industry in Yogyakarta and Central Java are paid below the regional mini

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Jakarta – Textile and footwear businesspeople have welcomed the government's launch of the so-called "investment desk" on Friday, calling it an effort to reach out to labor-intensive industries at

Ina Parlina, Tangerang, Banten – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Monday launched an investment program that will monitor 16 companies in the labor-intensive industry, in an effort to increase emp

Jakarta – The government will launch a help desk dedicated to helping to solve problems in the textile and footwear industries in a bid to prevent more layoffs in labor-intensive businesses.

Jakarta – Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) chairman Hariyadi Sukamdani has said that in September alone, 27,000 people lost their jobs as companies started to lay off workers when the rupi

Jakarta – There were 43,085 workers laid off since the beginning of this year and thousands of other workers are set to face the same fate, according to the Manpower Ministry.

Jakarta – Up to 26,506 workers in Indonesia have been laid off while the rupiah has been weakening, said Manpower Minister Hanif Dhakiri on Saturday.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – With the economic slump continuing, the government is expecting lay-offs to increase.

Agus Maryono, Cilacap – At least 500 workers who are members of several labor unions in Cilacap regency, Central Java, staged a rally on Tuesday to reject the government's policy to ease requiremen

Jakarta – Thousands of laborers started to flood the streets near the National Monument (Monas) park at 10 a.m. on Tuesday.

Jakarta – Indonesian Workers Union Association (Aspek) president Mirah Sumirat has called on the government to anticipate massive layoffs that might occur due to the country's economic slowdown and

Jakarta – A labor rally involving around 50,000 workers in Greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek) is set to be held on Tuesday.

National – Sustainable Development Indonesia director Drajad Wibowo has predicted that Indonesia will have more than 500,000 newly unemployed people this year if the ongoing economic slowdown conti

Jakarta – Workers have demanded that the management of steel factory PT Karawang Prima Sejahtera Steel (PT KPSS) in West Java improve its workplace safety following Saturday's explosion that left o

Bojonegoro, East Java – Thousands of angry workers at a construction site at the Banyu Urip oil field in Bojonegoro, East Java, reportedly destroyed facilities at the site on Saturday after they fo

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Transportation Ministry director general for sea transportation Bobby Mamahit said on Tuesday that the rally staged by employees of PT Jakarta International Container

Bayu Marhaenjati & Mikael Niman, Bekasi/Jakarta – The death toll from an explosion at a cosmetics factory on the outskirts of Jakarta has reached 17, with 12 victims dying in hospital as a resu

Rochimawati, Arie Dwi Budiawati- Although the nominal wage of agricultural and urban informal workers increased in 2015, their real wages declined.

Jakarta – Fire engulfed the publicly listed cosmetics factory PT Mandom Indonesia in the MM2100 Industrial Area in Bekasi, West Java, on Friday morning, killing five workers and injuring 50 others.

Andreyka Natalegawa – Indonesia must strengthen its labor institutions and invest in skills development, the International Labor Organization said in a report released on Thursday, with officials w

Dylan Amirio, National – Lawmakers have reaffirmed their position of rejecting the sudden amendment of Government Regulation no. 46/2015 on pension funds.

Haeril Halim, Headlines – Labor unions have rejected the government's plan to revise the new pension scheme regulations and have urged it to protect the basic rights of workers across the country.

Hans Nicholas Jong and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Hundreds of workers rallied on Friday along the capital city's main thoroughfares to protest against the government's new pension scheme regulat

Jakarta – Only workers who are dismissed and can no longer work with other employers, will be allowed withdraw their deposits from the old-age risk scheme, says president director of Workers' Socia

Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – The government has backed down on a controversial new regulation on a workers' savings scheme, saying it will now allow policy holders to cash out after five years instead of

Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesians have taken to the Internet and the streets in protest at a new government regulation requiring employees and former employees to wait until retiremen

Fadli, Batam – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) to investigate alleged foreign involvement in labor rallies in Batam, Riau Islands, that have led

Eveline Danubrata & Cindy Silviana, Jakarta – Indonesian companies are shedding jobs as they grapple with the weakest economic growth in six years, adding to the troubles facing President Joko

Astrid Zweynert, Hong Kong – Indonesia's proposed ban on sending domestic workers to the Middle East will force women seeking an escape from poverty to migrate illegally, and put them at greater ri

Tama Salim, Jakarta – Human rights activists are calling on the government to implement a number of internal reforms to balance out its efforts to provide better protection for Indonesian migrant w

Jakarta – The Indonesian Domestic Workers Training and Placement Association (APPSI) has compiled a code of ethics for its members in an endeavor to phase out child labor in the domestic work indus

Linda Yulisman and Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Nearly 50,000 factory workers have been dismissed in recent weeks as the country's economic slowdown has begun to pinch the country's labor intensive

Jakarta – Rights group Migrant Care has slammed the government's recent decision to halt the sending of migrant workers in the informal sector to Middle Eastern countries, saying that the move will

Puji Sukiswanti, Denpasar – Hundreds of workers from the Balinese United Labour Alliance (ABBB) held a rally at the Bali Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) building in the provincial capital