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

What's new

1. 

   Campaign

   Video Screening on disability inclusion for UN Agencies staff UNPRPD – Indonesia

   Jakarta, 10 April 2014

   The main objectives of the video screening is to raise better awareness of staff members of UN Agencies staff on disability rights, especially on barriers faced in accessing employment, sharing of experience of those already at workplace, accessibility and the expectation from the side of persons with disabilities.

2. 

   Seminar

   Collective Bargaining, Wage Policy and Productivity in Indonesia: Roles and Responsibilities

   Jakarta, 10 - 13 March 2014

   During June-July 2012, the ILO conducted a diagnostic process on freedom of association and collective bargaining (FoA and CB) rights in the export processing sector in Indonesia. On this basis, a national plan of action 2013 – 2015 on FoA and CB rights in the export sector in Indonesia has been developed by the tripartite constituents.

3. 

   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”.

4. 

   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.

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.