Labour Rights

Rancangan Undang-undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual (RUU PKS) akan membantu melindungi perempuan di tempat kerja

Indonesia’s proposed sexual violence elimination law will help protect women in the workplace

Elite politics and Freeport Indonesia’s non-compliance continue to deny Timotius Kambu his owed wages

Foreign investment in large-scale mining has encountered serious obstacles

Despite the impressive activism of Pekalongan’s labour union, its political clout remains limited

A new book examines Indonesian labour struggles through the lens of international political economy theory 

Has this phenomenally successful app-based transport service improved the lives of the motorcycle workers it employs?

Labour rights have suffered under the Jokowi administration

Village morality complicates our assumptions about what it means to ‘succeed’ as a migrant worker

Former migrant workers are finding new empowerment in the bureaucratic jungle of legal aid

The labour movement successfully adopted new tactics in their campaign for social security reform

A national strike shows that workers are once again a significant force  

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

Non-governmental organisations continue to fill the gap in the absence of viable alternatives

As this edition shows, the choices faced by those who leave Indonesia for work are anything but simple

Against the odds, Indonesian domestic workers have achieved real change in Hong Kong

Indonesian labour activists are mourning the passing of a great man

Unionists express their disgust at local government’s failure to look after the interests of workers

Women are challenging the stereotypes that have long defined Indonesian unionists.