Nurfika Osman – Two national rights commissions have expressed concern over the number of underage children working in the country, classifying it as child abuse.

Jakarta – Activists dismissed the government's claim of having achieved "success" in taking home thousands of migrant workers who were experiencing problems abroad.

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – A common interest to ensure resilience to China's growing domination over the Indonesian market has brought big employers and labor unions together in a prev

Putri Prameshwari – Employees who were recently laid off by several companies without prior discussion must be taken back, Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Muhaimin Iskandar said

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The government has promised to provide more attention on reviving manufacturing, service sectors, among the hardest hit by the global crisis last year, in or

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Commemorating what they called domestic worker national day, which falls on Feb.

Anita Rachman – At least four million of 58.8 million children across the nation are in employment, and of those at least 1.7 million are considered child laborers, according to a 2009

Some employers choose to hire a girl rather than an adult because they want someone who will work for less money and who will be easier to boss around.

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – A hundred activists and domestic workers in Yogyakarta staged a rally Tuesday, protesting a governor decree that allegedly contravened a bylaw on domestic work

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Malaysia and Indonesia are close to signing a comprehensive agreement on migrant workers that will better protect Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia from

Jakarta – Five hundred contract workers from PT Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) staged a protest on Monday in front of the main gate of Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakar

Ulum, Jakarta – Thousands of workers of the state steel producer Krakatau Steel rallied outside the Cilegon Regional Legislator's office on Tuesday (2/2) to demand immediate completion

Adisti, Jakarta – Activities at Jakarta main seaport disrupted on Monday as around 400 workers staged a protest at the gate of Tanjung Priok Port to demand settlement of several industr

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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.

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

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

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

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 – 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.