ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste (CO-Jakarta)

What's new

1. 

   Articles

   Domestic workers: The need to speed up change

   By Malte Luebker, ILO economist, Bangkok

   Over the course of two years, Kartika Puspitasari, a 30-year-old Indonesian domestic worker, was assaulted by her Hong Kong employers, who would burn her with an iron and beat with a bike chain. The trial judge called her treatment “cruel” and “inhumane”.

2. 

   Article with Video

   'Money finds us!' - Enriching the vegetable harvest in Timor-Leste

   Maubisse, Timor-Leste, 28 February 2014

   How an ILO supported project helped a local community to improve their farming practices, develop their market access, create jobs and support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

3. 

   ILO book

   Wage-led Growth: An equitable strategy for economic recovery

   Issued in Geneva, 10 February 2014

   Examines the causes and consequences associated with the falling wage share and rising inequality in income distribution, relating to both aggregate demand and labour productivity.

4. 

   Global report

   Global Employment Trends 2014: The risk of a jobless recovery

   launched in Geneva, 21 January 2014

   The study offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment.

5. Press release

   Reinforcing the role of decent work in equitable growth a core priority, Says New ILO Report

   Launched in Jakarta, 17 Desember 2013

   Highlights that Indonesia has faced adjustments in its macroeconomic indicators in 2013, and these adjustments have been reflected in a decline in the employment situation. While there has been progress on selected indicators, such as educational attainment and formal employment, challenges remain, particularly on labour productivity, access to social protection and wages.

6. Workshop

   Accelerating action towards the elimination of Worst Form of Child Labour in ASEAN

   Jakarta-Indonesia, 16th- 18th December 2013

   The workshop is pursuant to the adoption of the ASEAN Roadmap on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour last November at the 5th SLOM Working Group on Progressive Labour Practices, and a direct follow up to the recent 3rd Global Conference on Child Labour held in Brasilia in October.

7. 

   Campaign

   The Launch of the Disability Video Diaries

   Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Surabaya and Semarang, Indonesia, 5 - 17 December 2013

   The ILO in collaboration with Kampung Halaman Foundation will launch two video diaries on disability on the rights to employment and public accessibility. The first of its kinds, the video diaries capture the plight and voices of persons with disabilities from their own perspectives.

8. Workshop

   Decent Work Programming for the Nusa Tenggara Timur Medium Term Provincial Development

   Kupang, NTT-Indonesia, 3-4 December 2013

   The Province of NTT is in the beginning of developing a new phase of 5 years medium development agenda for the new phase of the government of NTT. One element of the province programme that need to be enhanced is in the creation of decent jobs for the province in order to create productive and sustainable development.

9. Campaign

   VCT@Work National Launch

   Jakarta and Surabaya-Indonesia, 3 December 2013

   ILO, in collaboration with UNAIDS, has launched an initiative to reach 5 million workers worldwide with voluntary and confidential HIV counseling and testing (VCT@WORK) by 2015.

10. Workshop

    ILO-GLACIER National Knowledge Sharing Workshop

    Jakarta-Indonesia, 28 November 2013

    The ILO CO-Jakarta has implemented an innovative pilot project called GLACIER, funded by Norway through the SATGAS REDD+ and UNDP in the Central Kalimantan pilot province.

11. Workshop

    Good Practices and International Experience on Employment Protection and Outsourcing Regimes

    Bogor, West Java-Indonesia, 27 - 28 November 2013

    Economic globalization and technical innovation are now exposing enterprises, which used to be sheltered by national borders and national institutions, to harsh competitive pressures. The competitiveness of an enterprise or economy in the globalized market depends largely on its ability to adapt to changes in markets and to take advantage of the latest technological innovations.

12. Meeting

    6th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

    Bandar Seri Begawan-Brunei Darussalam, 26 - 27 November 2013

    An open platform for review, discussion and exchange of best practices and ideas between governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations, and civil society stakeholders on key issues facing migrant workers in South-East Asia, and develop recommendations to advance the implementation of the principles of the ASEAN Declaration on Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers.