Bagus BT Saragih and Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Once again the voice of the many outdid the few, regardless how diligent the latter may have been.

Arientha Primanita & Anita Rachman – After hours of mediation with workers and the government, the Indonesian Employers Association agreed on Wednesday to withdraw its lawsuit again

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The government together with employers and labor unions will carry out a comprehensive evaluation of the remuneration system and other contentious issues p

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – With the Constitutional Court (MK) having recently banned all outsourcing practices, companies that make money by supplying workers to others now have an o

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – The mix of workers emboldened by recent labor victories and a fear of higher costs from the state's plan to limit subsidized fuel consumption could spark more ra

It was a rare victory for the labor movement.

Anita Rachman – Friday's mass labor action in Bekasi which crippled traffic, shut down stores and led to billions of rupiah in losses, showed how Indonesian workers are increasingly fin

Sita W. Dewi, Bekasi, West Java – Tens of thousands of Bekasi workers staged a rally on Friday, blocking the Jakarta – Cikarang toll road access to Bekasi from KM 21 to KM 26.

Bayu Marhaenjati & Carla Isati Octama – In a heated dispute over minimum wages, thousands of Bekasi workers blocked the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road after noon prayers on Friday to pr

Jakarta – The tension between manufacturing companies and labor unions in West Java and Banten is likely to escalate following a court decision on a proposed legal review on minimum wag

Anita Rachman – A ministerial decree to support a court ruling limiting the use of outsourcing is on its way, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said on Monday.

Jakarta – Cornered by thousands of workers who oppose a lawsuit filed to revoke recently approved minimum wage increases, Indonesian business associations have played their trump card,

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Ismira Lutfia, Ivan Dasa Saputra & Ezra Sihite – A revision of Indonesia's Labor Law that paves the way for outsourced workers to have equal benefits with per

Cikarang, West Java – Thousands of workers took to the streets again on Thursday after it became apparent that the Indonesian Employers Association would not withdraw its lawsuit agains

Multa Fidrus and Fadli, Tangerang/Batam – In the latest of a series of rallies to demand better pay, tens of thousands of workers in Bekasi and Tangerang blocked roads connecting neighb

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma & Anugrah Rasita – Indonesian companies said on Thursday that they now had no choice but to brace themselves for higher labor costs in the wake of the Constit

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Millions of contract-based and outsourced workers will regain their rights, including monthly salaries, allowances, severance pay and social security benef

Bambang Muryanto – A workers' meeting in Yogyakarta has called on the government to adopt international regulations to ensure the welfare and protection for workers in the tourism indus

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The government said on Tuesday that more than 1.7 million child laborers, mostly female, are still being exploited in horrendous working conditions in the

Cikarang, Bekasi – Labor unions have canceled the massive protest scheduled for today after an agreement was reached late on Sunday night with the employers association.

Ismira Lutfia & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Labor unions in greater Jakarta will stage a major rally in East Bekasi, Karawang and Cikarang today to press on their demand for a minimum 1

Ulma Haryanto – Thousands of workers from a Nike plant in Serang, Banten, are due to receive nearly $1 million for forced overtime without payment in a move apparently unprecedented in

Bayu Marhaenjati & Keyko Ranti Ramadhani – The Indonesian Association of Employers agreed on Wednesday to meet with protesting workers to try to settle a dispute over a recent incre

A contentious battle between Nike and laborers at a factory in Serang, Banten, was settled on Wednesday with $1 million in unpaid overtime being awarded to some 4,500 workers there.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Most formal sector can expect bigger paychecks by early February, after the government approved a 9 percent minimum wage increase for workers in every prov

Keyko Ranti Ramadhani – A massive wildcat strike involving thousands of workers in Bekasi on outskirts of Jakarta on Wednesday will disrupt the investment climate and business in West J

Multa Fidrus, Jakarta – Traffic was fouled for four hours and for up to 15 kilometers around Serang as thousands of workers blocked the toll road between Tangerang and Merak on Tuesday,

Jakarta – Workers at a Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Inc Indonesian mine on Tuesday halted their gradual return to work one day after gunmen shot two contractors dead on the road t

Workers at a giant Indonesian gold and copper mine owned by US company Freeport-McMoRan said Friday they would not return to work, three weeks after officially ending the country's long

Jakarta – Hundreds of PT Freeport Indonesia workers have returned to work after a three-month strike, but a workers' union official predicts that it will take three or four weeks before

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – Dozens of employees laid off by PT Riau Airlines rallied at the Riau Manpower and Transmigration Agency in Pekanbaru on Tuesday, demanding severance pay, holi

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A senior lawmaker from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) lambasted the government failing to protect a migrant worker left to die in fron

The head of Freeport Indonesia's workers' union has said there will be no further strikes despite growing concern over the issue in Timika, Papua.

Jakarta – Despite disruptions to labor agreements last year, Indonesians working abroad managed to send home US$6.1 billion in 2011.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Migrant workers say they have seen no major changes in the way labor export works in the country, despite recent government measures to improve migrant pro

Thousands of workers at Freeport mine in Indonesia have ended their three-month strike for better wages, after a signing a pay-rise deal with the company.

Dessy Sagita – A leading activist criticized the government on Tuesday for failing to actively engage in efforts to save Indonesian migrant workers on death row overseas.

The union at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Grasberg mine in Indonesia has halted a return to work after a three-month strike pending the resolution of a local labour dispute,

Timika, Papua – Workers at Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Inc's mine in Indonesia may delay returning to work, despite a deal to end a three-month strike, in the absence of a decisi

Olivia Rondonuwu – Thousands of workers at Freeport-McMoRan's giant gold and copper mine in Papua will start going back to work today to end a three-month strike that shook labor relati

Timika – Workers at Papua's giant Grasberg mine operated by US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan have not returned to work, police in the Indonesian province said on Thursday, despite previ

Jakarta – Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said that an amendment to the Labor Law would give more protection to employees working under outsourcing schemes.

Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – A rights watchdog revealed on Tuesday that violations against workers' rights were still prevalent in Jakarta in 2011.

Jakarta – Migrant Care, a non-governmental organization (NGO) promoting rights of Indonesian migrant workers abroad, said that 32 migrant workers were on death row, while hundreds of ot

Pekanbaru – Hundreds of cleaning staff subcontracted to Chevron Pacific Indonesia rallied outside the company's premises in Pekanbaru, Riau, for a second day on Tuesday.

Agus Triyono – Several organizations calling their coalition the Action Committee for Household Workers called on the government on Sunday to quickly ratify an international accord prov

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Home to millions of domestic workers and transferring many of them overseas, Indonesia remains backward in providing protection for these workers.

Although films like "Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park" (Sunday Morning in Victoria Park) by director Lola Amaria have tried to present the living conditions of domestic helpers in Hong Kong

Sara Schonhardt – As a flare-red sun set, a group of laborers in their 20s and 30s gathered on the bare floor of a battered house wedged beneath power lines in an industrial part of Jak

Setyo Budi – After three violent months and a tough negotiation process, the Freeport strike is over.