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A lot of information on Indonesian labor struggles can also be found in the various electronic bulletins sections.
Indonesian Trade Union Congress Alliance Confederation (KASBI) Chairperson Nining Elitos is calling for outstanding cases of human rights violations in Indonesia to be fully resolved.
Elitos made the demand while holding a demonstration to commemorate International Human Rights Day on (...)
Abstract: Dutch recognition of Indonesia’s sovereignty in December 1949 ended the constraints of colonialism, invasion, and reoccupation. Unions were free to reorganize and workers were free to take collective action to improve their lot in life. A labor movement that had struggled against a (...)
Workers from the Labour Movement with the People (Gebrak) held a protest action near the Horse Statue in Central Jakarta on Thursday October 20. They brought a number of demands ranging from calls for a reduction in the price of fuel (BBM) to revoking the Jobs Law (Ciptaker).
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From unhappy childhood in a village, working as a domestic worker, to learning to become a union leader who courageously leads workers’ protests, Aan Aminah recounts her inspirational stories in a wide-ranging conversation.
On a rainy Thursday in September 2022, we visited the office of a (...)
The Labour Movement with the People (Gebrak) along with a number of other social organisations, including students, will hold a mass demonstration against the recent fuel (BBM) price hike next week, on Tuesday September 13.
“KASBI [the Indonesian Trade Union Congress Alliance Confederation], (...)
The labour situation in Indonesia is currently facing the challenge of de-industrialization which has resulted in many workers starting to turn into informal workers. The time and rules imposed in work are also now becoming more lax or flexible—the changing industry has resulted in the labour (...)
“You are unfit to work,” an employment agency staff member told Nining Ivana.
There was no other explanation. At that moment, the then-22-year-old only knew one thing was certain: her window of opportunity for a better life in Malaysia slammed shut.
But Nining didn’t know exactly what was wrong (...)
Jakarta — Indonesian United Trade Union Federation (FSBPI) General Chairperson Dian Septi Trisnanti says that the Emergency Enforcement of Restrictions on Public Activities (PPKM) are largely not being applied for workers in the textile, garment, footwear and leather manufacturing sectors. (...)
Not so long after a viral tweet by an underpaid freelance teacher at Ruangguru, drew attention to the education-based technology company’s exploitation of interns, Indonesia saw strikes and massive protests from couriers for Shopee, a leading e-commerce start-up in South East Asia. Ironically, (...)
Jakarta — The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) says that the forced evictions of Buntu Lane II residents in Pancoran, East Jakarta, by employees of the state-owned oil-and-gas company PT Pertamina which involved a social or mass organisation was a gross human rights violation.
In an official (...)
A recent demonstration against a Chinese nickel company in Southeast Sulawesi could be a labour dispute – or something more.
On the morning of 14 December 2020, hundreds of people carried out demonstrations at the front gate of Virtue Dragon Nickel Industry (VDNI), a company owned by investors (...)
In 2019, brutal evictions took place in Kampung Tamansari in Bandung, West Java. Carried out by police, military, and para-military groups on the orders of the city authorities, the action included violent evictions, the burning of houses, firing of tear gas, and the arrest of activists. But (...)
Indonesia’s new Omnibus Law was passed earlier this month, enacting a major series of counterreforms to workers’ rights and the environment. In protest, tens of thousands of workers went on strike, and in dozens of cities, students took to the streets.
In recent weeks, Indonesia has seen a wave (...)
Amnesty International Indonesia has lambasted the newly passed Omnibus Law on Job Creation, calling it a threat to human rights that could harm labor rights and exploit workers in the country.
Amnesty International Indonesia executive director Usman Hamid called the law “catastrophic”.
“This (...)
New law to boost investment is a ‘tragic miscalculation’, campaigners say, as unions plan strike action in protest.
Indonesia has passed a wide-ranging bill that will weaken environmental protections and workers’ rights in an attempt to boost investment, a move condemned as a “tragic (...)
The multidimensional crisis is emerging due to Covid-19 outbreak and give impacts to the working class in Indonesia. Not to mention the receding issue of layoffs due to the economic crisis experienced before the arrival of COVID-19, now the wave of mass layoffs has jumped significantly as a (...)
Surabaya — Protests against neoliberal labour reforms have been postponed. Thousands of people from labour, student and non-government organisations who are part of the East Java Movement Against the Omnibus Law (Getol) have cancelled a protest action which was planned to be held on Monday (...)
Achmad Nasrudin Yahya, Jakarta — Three trade union confederations have agreed to revive the Indonesian Trade Union Council (MPBI) to fight the Draft Omnibus Law on Job Creation.
The three confederations are the Confederation of the All-Indonesian Workers Union (KSPSI), the Confederation of (...)
Labour Movement with the People (GEBRAK) Statement - September 24, 2019
September 24 marks the commemoration of National Farmers Day. Every year, thousands of farmers take to the streets to demand the justice and prosperity that seems to have been forgotten by the government.
National (...)
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo held a meeting with trade unions leaders in the Garuda Room at the Bogor Presidential Palace in West Java on Friday April 26. Widodo was accompanied by Labour Minister Hanif Dhakiri and Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko.
The trade union leaders who attended the (...)
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