Download or read book Labor Conditions in Indonesia written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary of Labor Conditions in Indonesia Prepared by written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indonesia Wages and Employment written by Constantino Lluch and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a continuing effort to assess wage and employment conditions in Indonesia, this report focuses on labour market conditions. The population has grown at a faster than expected rate which means that the labour force will grow faster than expected as well. In addition, output growth over the eighties is not expected to be as fast as in the past. The implications for employment and labour incomes of these factors vary according to alternative workings of the labour markets. Therefore, alternative views on how labour markets work have important and different implications for policy. A primary objective of this report is to point out these implications and to promote further study of labour markets in Indonesia. It differs from the previous view, suggesting that quality of labour does not explain wage differentials, that the problem of underutilization of young people is too great to be explained by models highlighting transitional job searching, and that social forces and economic forces which do not lead to the clearing of the labour market play a large role in the determination of wages. These factors have important consequences for policy, including the need to consider employment creation as a separate objective.
Download or read book Indonesia written by Edimon Ginting and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on Indonesia's most pressing labor market challenges and associated policy options to achieve higher and more inclusive economic growth. The challenges consist of creating jobs for and the skills in a youthful and increasingly better educated workforce, and raising the productivity of less-educated workers to meet the demands of the digital age. The book deals with a range of interrelated topics---the changing supply and demand for labor in relation to the shift of workers out of agriculture; urbanization and the growth of megacities; raising the quality of schooling for new jobs in the digital economy; and labor market policies to improve both labor standards and productivity.
Download or read book Labor Regulations and Industrial Relations in Indonesia written by Alejandra Cox Edwards and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Benefits of Growth for Indonesian Workers written by Nisha Agrawal and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1996 Does improving the conditions of workers in Indonesia require government interventions? Indonesia's rapid, broadly based pattern of growth has led to a spectacular reduction in poverty in the past 25 years. The model of development Indonesia adopted -- market-led growth combined with investments in physical and social infrastructure -- has proved to be the one most successful in alleviating poverty and benefiting workers in developing countries. The government's development efforts focused on agriculture (especially rice), education, and transport infrastructure. It emphasized providing opportunities for productive employment and gradually improving the quality of labor through education and training. The rates at which wages, employment, and incomes grew were left largely to market forces. Indonesian workers have been major beneficiaries of growth, but although the rapid growth of labor-intensive manufacturing has led to more jobs and higher wages, workers employed in these industries have expressed growing dissatisfaction. They complain about problems of child labor, the denial of centrally mandated wages and benefits to workers, poor working conditions, and the abuse of young female workers, who make up the bulk of the workforce. The government has tried to improve workers' wages and working conditions by centrally mandating higher labor standards, relying principally on minimum wages as a tool for doing so. Since 1989, minimum wages have tripled nominally and doubled in real terms. Enforcement has improved and, despite low compliance, at those higher levels minimum wages are beginning to bite. Indonesians are debating whether they need these labor-intensive industries and whether it is a mistake to base Indonesia's growth on cheap labor, because industries that exploit cheap labor could move to other countries. They argue that if labor is more expensive, manufacturers have no choice but to substitute some capital for labor, and to develop more sophisticated industries. However, Indonesia still has an abundant supply of labor and if labor-intensive industries are rejected, the capacity of the economy to absorb plentiful workers will be reduced. The main alternatives are to push up wages now (and risk the premature death of labor intensive industries) or to let wages be determined by market forces (in which case wages will rise slowly for the time being but industry's capacity to absorb labor will be higher) but strengthen institutions that could improve working conditions, such as labor unions. Agrawal recommends maintaining flexible labor markets and allowing market forces to set the pace of change, while strengthening labor unions. This paper -- a product of the Indonesia Policy and Operations Division, East Asia and Pacific, Country Department III -- is part of a larger effort in the department to develop a comprehensive labor market strategy for Indonesia. It was presented at a joint Ministry of Manpower-World Bank workshop, Indonesian Workers in the 21st Century, in Jakarta, April 2-4, 1996.
Download or read book Labor in Indonesia written by Edith Wall Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Factors affecting labor -- Manpower and employment -- Labor standards -- Wages, hours, prices, level of living -- Labor organizations -- Employer organizations -- Labor-management relations -- Appendixes: A. Glossary of Indonesian names and abbreviations -- B. Principal officers of the Indonesian Department of Labor, January 1963.
Download or read book Indonesia written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indonesian Labor Legislation in a Comparative Perspective written by Reema Nayar and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1956 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labor Regulations and Industrial Relations in Indonesia written by Cox Alejandra Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1996 Personnel management and incentive systems help firms establish a comparative advantage. Pay scales and hiring, firing and promotion decisions are central to competitive strategy. Ideally, labor regulations should facilitate voluntary agreements between employers and workers, helping reduce transaction costs. Since the mid-1980s, deregulation has proceeded rapidly in Indonesia. Employment opportunities, the capacity to generate income, and the opportunity to negotiate better working conditions have all expanded. Still, many Indonesians have voiced concern that workers have not shared enough in the benefits of economic development. Many hold the view that increasing the minimum wage would bring the bottom wages up and reduce wage differentials. Additionally, international agencies such as the International Labour Organisation and representatives of the U.S. government have criticized Indonesia for violations of labor standards. In response, the Indonesian government increased workers' statutory rights and removed obstacles to collective bargaining. Real minimum wages doubled between 1988 and 1995. Enforcement of regulations toughened. While in earlier periods statutory rights applied to a minority in the public sector, the expansion of manufacturing employment has broadened the coverage of these statutes, requiring the Ministry of Manpower to perform the nearly impossible task of enforcing them. Now the government should close the gap between statutory rights and voluntarily agreed-on working conditions. This means correcting the legal standards and reducing government intervention in labor disputes. Current labor regulations in Indonesia inhibit constructive discourse between workers and employers in three areas: dismissals, dispute resolution mechanisms, and contributions to social security. More appropriate legislative action, which also takes into account the role of other agencies is needed in two areas: job safety and child labor. Personnel management and incentive structures help firms establish a comparative advantage. Pay scales and hiring, firing and promotion decisions are central to performance evaluation and competitive strategy. Individual and collective bargaining is at the heart of labor-management relations in modern enterprises, and industrial action (or the real threat of it) is generally part of negotiation strategy. Inviting public intervention rather than allowing such mechanisms as strikes and lockouts to operate isolates negotiations from market conditions. Ideally, labor regulations should facilitate voluntary agreements between employers and workers, helping reduce transaction costs. They often do the opposite -- and also discourage the creation of jobs. Keeping Indonesia's economy competitive requires a system of industrial relations that relies on voluntary negotiations of wages and working conditions. The tasks workers perform and the employers for whom they perform them must be subject to change. This process is a normal feature of healthy labor markets. This paper -- a product of the Poverty and Social Policy Department -- is part of a larger study of the labor market in Indonesia undertaken by East Asia and Pacific, Country Department III. It was presented at a joint Ministry of Manpower-World Bank workshop, Indonesian Workers in the 21st Century, Jakarta, April 2-4, 1996.
Download or read book The Pearl Frontier written by Julia Martínez and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable for its meticulous archival research and moving life stories, The Pearl Frontier offers a new way of imagining Australian historical connections with Indonesia. This compelling view from below of maritime mobility demonstrates how, in the colonial quest for the valuable pearl-shell, Australians came to rely on the skill and labor of Indonesian islanders, drawing them into their northern pearling trade empire. From the 1860s onward the pearl-shell industry developed alongside British colonial conquests across Australia's northern coast and prompted the Dutch to consolidate their hold over the Netherlands East Indies. Inspired by tales of pirates and priceless pearls, the pearl frontier witnessed the maritime equivalent of a gold rush; with traders, entrepreneurs, and willing workers coming from across the globe. But like so many other frontier zones it soon became notorious for its reliance on slave-like conditions for Indigenous and Indonesian workers. These allegations prompted the imposition of a strict regime of indentured labor migration that was to last for almost a century before giving way to international criticism in the era of decolonization. The Pearl Frontier invites the reader to step outside the narrow confines of national boundaries, to see seafaring peoples as a continuous population, moving and in communication in spite of the obstacles of politics, warfare, and language. Instead of the mythologies of racial purity, propagated by settler colonies and European empires, this book dissects the social and economic life of the port cities around the Australian-Indonesian maritime zone and lays open the complex, cosmopolitan relationships which shaped their histories and their present situations. Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers bring together their expertise on Australian and Indonesian history to challenge the isolationist view of Australia's past. This book explores how Asian migration and the struggle against the restrictive White Australia policy left a rich legacy of mixed Asian-Indigenous heritage that lives on along Australia's northern coastline. This book is an important contribution to studies of the coastal, or Pasisir, culture of Southeast Asia, that situates the local cultures in a regional context and demonstrates how Indonesian maritime peoples became part of global migration flows as indentured laborers. It offers a hitherto untold story of Indonesian diaspora in Australia and reveals a degree of Indian-Pacific interconnectedness that forces us to rethink the construction of regional boundaries and national borders.
Download or read book Beyond Decent Work written by Felix Hauf and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Decent Work explores the history of the Indonesian labor movement, using three contemporary case studies to shed light on the development of Indonesia's labor struggles and trade union strategies. Drawing on extensive and recent qualitative fieldwork, Felix Hauf argues that the economic idea of "decent work" plays a central role in current trade union strategies at the expense of more radical--or traditional working-class--strategies of industrial action, even though the latter have been more effective in fulfilling workers' demands for higher wages and better working conditions. Hauf's analysis offers unique insight into the labor dynamics of Indonesia and Southeast Asia more broadly, revealing how genuinely democratic and independent unions--confronted with rival unions controlled by businesses, Indonesian subcontractors, multinational corporations, and the Indonesian state--struggle to create an economy outside the confines of neoliberal capitalism.
Download or read book An Analysis of the Labor Market in Indonesia written by Ping Tjwan Tjan and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indonesian Women Workers written by Working Group of Indonesian NGOʼs on the Women Workers Right and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labor and Politics in Indonesia written by Teri L. Caraway and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first analysis of how Indonesia's labor movement overcame organizational weakness to become the most vibrant in Southeast Asia.
Download or read book Indonesian Labor Legislation in a Comparative Perspective A Study of Six APEC Countries written by Reema Nayar and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 1996 Current labor legislation in Indonesia is a mixed bag of laws protecting workers' welfare but controlling organized labor. The country must take care not to favor centrally mandated labor standards over those negotiated between workers and their employers. Nayar compares Indonesian labor legislations with labor policies in five other APEC countries: Chile, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, and the United States. She focuses on legislation affecting union regulation, minimum wages, nonwage compensation, and working conditions. Current legislation in Indonesia is a mixed bag of laws protecting workers' welfare but controlling organized labor. Indonesian laws restrict the ability of labor organizations to effectively represent workers to management at the plant level. In this, they are similar to Malaysian laws and, to less extent, new Korean legislation. They provide a stark contrast to current legislation in Chile and the United States. But Indonesian legislation governing minimum wages, mandated nonwage benefits, and other labor standards appear to be at least as generous as legislation in the five other countries, which all have substantially higher per capita incomes. Indonesia is under pressure to ease restrictions on unions. Nayar suggests that allowing effective plant-level bargaining could give workers more of a voice at the workplace, but that improving industrial relations will require more than legislative changes. Careful changes in legislation and in industrial relations - and increased deregulation and competition in product markets - could help unions play a more positive role, while downplaying labor's more negative role. She cautions against centrally mandating labor standards instead of letting workers and their employers negotiate them at local plants. This paper is the first in a series of studies on labor market issues initiated by the Bank's East Asia and Pacific Region, Country Department III.
Download or read book Labour Market Monitoring and Employment Policy written by Martin Godfrey and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1993 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
