Inside Indonesia - a quarterly magazine on Indonesia and its people, culture, politics, economy and environment

As this edition shows, the choices faced by those who leave Indonesia for work are anything but simple Michele Ford and Wayne Palmer ...

Indonesian migrant workers without visas - or sometimes even passports - rely on the help of middlemen to get past immigration checkpoints into East M...

Indonesian fishers in Taiwan are beginning to fight back Robert Tierney    Indonesians were among these men protesting ag...

Against the odds, Indonesian domestic workers have achieved real change in Hong Kong Eni Lestari When Wayne Palmer spoke to the head o...

Indonesian labour activists are mourning the passing of a great man Michele Ford and Fahmi Panimbang        Fauzi Abdul...

Unionists express their disgust at local government’s failure to look after the interests of workers Iskarmon Basir    FSP-L...

Women are challenging the stereotypes that have long defined Indonesian unionists. Elena Williams Ngadinah, un...

Officially, 2.4 million Indonesian children work in factories or on the streets, instead of being at school. Unofficially, the number could be 10 m...

Making idealism work is very hard. NORI ANDRIYANI, with extraordinary honesty, tells why. Nori Andriyani In November 1995 a small women's...

Should child labour be abolished or regulated? WENDY MILLER spoke with activist ARIST MERDEKA SIRAIT during the Child Labour Conference at Melbourne&#...

Inspired by television and Muchtar Pakpahan, a traditional fisherman decides it’s time to act. Michele Ford ...

Workers unite to win severance pay for retrenched Securicor Indonesia employees. Jessica Champagne A recent victory for unionised Indonesian se...

From workers’ rights to democracy Michele Ford and Bob Muntz Since 1998 organised labour has embraced a new era of frenetic organising, amid...

Indonesia’s labour movement needs to consolidate the gains of 1998 Michele Ford President Suharto’s resignation in May 1998, and the refo...

Just a public relations exercise that undermines workers’ rights Jeff Ballinger A new phenomenon has swept the world of international business...

Why is organised labour missing from the democracy movement? Olle Törnquist When business abandoned Suharto in 1997-98, and students and se...

Greater freedom to organise also means more opportunity for division Endang Rokhani The collapse of the Suharto regime in 1998 led to the cre...

Fauzi Abdullah reflects on more than a quarter of a century of organising Michele Ford Fauzi Abdullah, now 56, is one of the most respected lab...

It’s been a long struggle trying to get unions to listen to women Ari Sunarijati There’s a view in Indonesia that unions are a man’s worl...

A farmer’s daughter takes control and makes a difference Dina Nuriyati I’m the third of six kids from Malang in East Java. My father is a ...