A lot of information on Indonesian labor struggles can also be found in the various electronic bulletins sections.
A chronology: Arrest at the Rally Protesting Government Regulation on Wage, Friday, Oct 30, 2015
7pm. That night, after the explosive sound of tear gas was heard, we, on the command-car of FBTPI (Asmir, Fresly Manulang, Myself, Gadis Merah, Sahrul Godam) stooped our head. I heard only the (...)
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.
The two, Tigor Gempita Hutapea and Obed Sakti Luitnan, were reportedly accompanying the protesters when police (...)
24 workers arrested during demonstration in front of State Palace
Jakarta Post - October 31, 2015
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 (...)
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Indonesia: Workers Arrested at Minimum Wage Protest
Brussels, 30 October 2015 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has condemned the arrest of more than 20 demonstrators during a rally in Jakarta today to protest against the government’s (...)
As part of its recent package of economic reforms announced earlier this month, the Jokowi government has proposed a new regulation that would eviscerate the country’s wage councils.
Minimum wages are set annually by tripartite wage councils composed of unions, employers and local governments. (...)
’Illegal residents like them should be evicted without any compensation,’ or ’If they want to live on the riverbanks, let them drown during the rainy season,’ and similar sentiments have become commonplace in social media in response to the forced evictions of riverbank dwellers in Jakarta. (...)
Despite the robust economic growth, a recent report from Central Statistics Agency (BPS) says there are 10.5 million urban poor in Indonesia, mostly in Java and Sumatra. They live in a very poor state and mostly in overcrowded spaces that lack water, sanitation, drainage and, often, primary (...)
Around 250,000 workers, members of various trade unions, mobilised in Jakarta for May Day, 2014. From all accounts, the mobilisations were similar to those of 2012 and 2013. The demands carried on workers banners and posters were for rises in minimum wages and the banning of the widespread (...)
Indonesia’s first May Day holiday in decades was less about labour and more about presidential politics, write Teri Caraway and Michele Ford.
It may have been the first time in decades that May Day was a public holiday in Indonesia, but it was the presidential elections rather than wages and (...)
The workers of Bekasi get a political education as union activists make history in a coordinated campaign.
It is April 8, the day before the election. The streets have been cleared of all the candidate posters that have clung to every tree trunk over the last few months. The banners that have (...)
Despite high economic growth rates, massive poverty persists in Indonesia. And while the fall of Suharto’s ’New Order’ dictatorship in 1998 drastically enlarged democratic space in the country, old representatives of the dictatorship are making a come-back. The army remains a powerful political (...)
A major thesis of Unfinished Nation (written between 2007 and 2008), was that the fall of Suharto was not the simple product of objective conditions, such as the 1997 Asian economic crisis, nor of some kind of automatic rot from within the regime due to corrupt “sultanisation”, contradictions (...)
Widespread strikes and worker protests took place in many Indonesian town and cities on 31 October and 1 November. On the first day of the strike, the Indonesian police stated that they had noted actions in 50 towns and cities in 15 provinces.
The protesters had three main demands: a 50 (...)
The Indonesian working class is fighting to end the age of cheap labor. A little over a year after the national strike on October 3, 2012, Indonesian workers launched another national strike. The demand: a fifty per cent increase of the minimum wage.
In Jakarta, workers demand that the (...)
Indonesia hit with mass strike over wage hike demands
Agence France Presse - October 31, 2013
Arlina Arshad, Jakarta — Tens of thousands of workers went on strike across Indonesia Thursday, in the latest industrial action to hit Southeast Asia’s top economy as its citizens seek a greater (...)
Workers protest low wages, outsourcing
Jakarta Post - September 16, 2013
Jakarta — Around 15,000 workers from the Congress Alliance of Indonesian Labor Unions (KASBI) took to the streets across Jakarta on Monday, urging the government to immediately implement appropriate minimum wage for (...)
Jakarta — The Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) and several other labour associations have emphatically rejected the issuance of a presidential instruction (Inpres) on limiting wage rises in order to stimulate the economy and overcome a slump in the value of the rupiah.
KSPI (...)
Sulthoni Farras is a worker that became a victim of layoffs at a company in the capital city of Jakarta when the crisis hit in 1998. Despite this, he continued with the struggle by building the cross-sector union that later became the union Federation Progresip under the confederation KASBI. (...)
The recent strike movement in Indonesia gave new proof of the potential power and strategic role of the working class movement. Several months of struggles, mainly in industrial zones in Bekasi, West Java, culminated in a 24-hour strike in 80 industrial estates, spread over 24 cities. The (...)
On 24 September, trade unions belonging to the recently formed Majelis Pekerja Buruh Indonesia (Indonesian Worker Employees Assembly – MPBI) have called for a national strike for October 3. They are expecting 2 million workers to join the strike in at least 21 towns with large manufacturing (...)
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