ILO Country Office for Indonesia (CO-Jakarta)

What's new

1. 

   Report

   Labour and social trends in Indonesia 2012: Working for a sustainable and equitable economy

   Launching event in Sari Pan Pacific Hotel, Jakarta, Thursday, 4 April 2013, at 1 p.m.

   The fifth issue of the Labour and Social Trends in Indonesia analyses progress towards the goal of sustainable growth with equity. A key point here is ensuring that employment is sustainable in the short, medium and long term - which is intricately linked to the use of the environment and the decency of work.

1. Event

   ASEAN Forum on Youth Employment: Effective Youth Employment Policies and Programmes for Better Employability of Young People

   Semarang, 13 May 2013

   The youth employment challenge has its own dimensions regardless of their stage of socio-economic development. The underlying problems are the large number of young people entering the labour markets every year, the lack of employment opportunities in particular in poor economies and post-conflict countries, and the low quality of education and training without a proper link to the labour markets.

2. Event

   National Seminar on Micro Small Medium Enterprises Development through Responsible and Sustainable Financial Inclusion

   Jakarta, 6-7 May 2013

   The rapid economic growth in many emerging markets in Asia Pacific has not been matched by a proportionate distribution of wealth, with an estimated 1.5 billion people in the region still unbanked and therefore economically disempowered. Increasing access to basic financial products and services is moving up the agenda of many international organisations.

3. 

   Press release

   Strengthening business resilience of Indonesian small and medium enterprises in the face of disaster

   Jakarta, 15 April 2013; Bogor, 16-19 April 2013

   Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are vulnerable to various types and forms of threats, dangers or crisis. The recent flood emergency in Jakarta in early 2013, for example, had severely hurt businesses, particularly SMEs. Floods had destroyed SMEs’ business assets and disrupted their business continuity, which in turn would put them at risk of losing their businesses and falling into poverty.

4. Event

   ILO ACTRAV Regional Seminar on Wage Policy

   Bali, 16 - 18 April 2013

   Extremely low wages for many workers in the formal and the informal economy are keeping millions of workers and their families in poverty. Wage growth in many countries has been lacking productivity growth. Policies in favour of systematic trade surpluses have deprived workers from their fair share of the wealth creation in money countries.

5. Event

   Training of Trainers on Start Your Green Business

   Surabaya, 1 April 2013

   The Indonesia Green Entrepreneurship Program will assist the national Government in reducing unemployment and reducing GHG by creating new green entrepreneurs in various sectors of the economy in Indonesia.

6. Event

   Occupational and Safety Health Workshop for Trade Unions

   Bogor, 19 - 20 March 2013

   Built the capability of Indonesian trade union branches in socializing the benefits of the implementation of SCORE OSH methodology in Small Medium Enterprises and getting stronger commitment from all Indonesian trade unions as one of the SCORE Indonesia implementing partner to support the socialization of SCORE methodology to the SMEs.

7. Event

   Strengthening DPP and DPK APINDO for Minimum Wages Setting

   Jakarta and Makassar, 18 - 22 March 2013

   The workshop will share knowledge and experiences from Apindo representatives at the level of provinces and districts who are playing active in minimum wages negotiations. It is also aimed to create a coordinated minimum wages network Apindo between DPN-DPP and DPK.

8. 

   Feature article

   When work becomes a sexual battleground

   To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March 2013, which focuses on ‘violence against women’, the ILO is highlighting the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace – an often subtle but disturbing form of aggression.

9. Events

   National and Provincial Workshops on Access to Employment and Decent Work

   Malang, Jakarta and Medan, 14 - 18 January 2013

   The ILO Project under the Access to Employment and Non-Discrimination component of MAMPU is designed to promote economic and social empowerment of women through strategies that strengthen women’s access to and equitable involvement in formal employment and decent work in Indonesia.