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 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 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 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 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 The Benefits of Growth for Indonesian Workers written by Nisha Agrawal and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Made in Indonesia written by Dan La Botz and published by South End Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic new labor movement emerged in Indonesia in the 1990s, helping to bring down the brutal Suharto dictatorship in 1998. Through rare personal interviews with the activists who are leading the rebirth of struggle for democratic rights in the world's fourth-largest country, La Botz draws valuable lessons for workers in the United States seeking to build international labor solidarity.
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 390 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 Child Workers in Indonesia written by Benjamin White and published by Akatiga. This book was released on 1998 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Happened to Child Labor in Indonesia During the Economic Crisis written by Agus Priyambada and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although lower than other developing countries at a similar stage of development, the problem of child labour in Indonesia is significant. Child labour perpetuates poverty. The link between current child labour and future poverty appears to be a lack of adequate and appropriate education. Children who spend a significant amount of their time working have less opportunity to obtain a proper education. This reduces their ability to get a good job as an adult and climb out of poverty. Furthermore, it is likely that their children will also have to work because of poverty. This study aims to assess the link between poverty, school, and work for children in Indonesia.
Download or read book Workers and Democracy written by John Ingleson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workers and Democracy is a study of worker activism and labor unions in the eight years between the recognition of Indonesian sovereignty by the Netherlands at the end of December 1949 and the nationalization of Dutch assets in December 1957. It contributes to a re-evaluation of the era of liberal parliamentary democracy in Indonesia. The focus is on the agency of workers and the structures, strategies and industrial campaigns of unions in the context of intense ideological conflict, competing union federations, the opposition of employers to collective action, and the efforts by the Indonesian state to manage industrial conflict. The imposition of martial law in March 1957 was the deathblow to parliamentary democracy and to the freedom of workers and unions to engage in collective action. It was not until Suharto’s ‘New Order’ regime collapsed in 1998 that Indonesian workers regained the freedom of association and the right to engage in collective action.
Download or read book Workers in the Shadows written by Bede Sheppard and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2009 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methodology -- The abuse and exploitation of child domestic workers : a continuing situation -- Eight enduring myths -- Continuing failure of the Indonesian government to protect and prevent exploitation of child domestic workers -- National and local governments' international legal obligations -- Recommendations.This report documents how hundreds of thousands of girls in Indonesia, some as young as 11, are employed as domestic workers in other people's households, performing tasks such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, and child care. Most girls interviewed for the report worked 14 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, with no day off. Almost all are grossly underpaid, and some get no salary at all. In the worst cases, girls reported being physically, psychologically, and sexually abused.
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 Indonesian Labour in Transition written by Chris Manning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers labour markets in Indonesia under Soeharto's New Order government.
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:
