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Promoting safer and healthier workplaces in Indonesia

Every year on the 28th of April, the ILO has observed the World Day for Safety and Health at Work since 2003. This special reporting highlights initiatives taken by the ILO in Indonesia in promoting safer and healthier workplaces.

Towards a stress-free working environment

Today, many workers are facing greater pressure to meet the demands of modern working life. Psychosocial risks such as increased competition, higher expectations on performance and longer working hours are contributing to the workplace becoming an...

Productivity and competitiveness

Improved its productivity, a SCORE participating company awarded with the Parama Karya

No more chaos of samples, threads and patterns scattered around the workspace of UD Pelangi Indonesia, a medium-scale handicraft company in Malang, East Java. A neat storage room and systematic production lines have been created to make it easier...

Let’s give them a chance like others: A business case of Shangri-La Hotel Surabaya

For years companies and organizations have been seeking for a competitive advantage under the philosophy of diversity in working places as one of the ways to integrate people with disabilities in the working environment. It has been proven that...

One opportunity, limitless possibility

What is needed for people with disabilities is one chance to show their abilities. An inclusive working environment opens limitless access to equal employment opportunities.

Opening doors to the workplace for people with disabilities: The business case of PT Dewhirst Indonesia

Realizing the potentials of people with disabilities to companies, PT Dewhirst Menswear Indonesia, a leading garment company in the country, has been providing an equal job opportunity for job-seekers with disabilities since 2001. With a total of...

Moving towards inclusive businesses in Indonesia

Employing disabled people could have a positive impact on employee morale, bring diversity to the company, raise the quality of services to customers from disabled people and also increase productivity as disabled people tend to be more diligent...

Disability Business Forum: Indonesian companies to move towards disability inclusion

In the midst of discrimination issues against people with disabilities, enterprises have realized that disability inclusion makes good business sense. Top enterprises have found people with disabilities as untapped human resources. Many of these...

Opening Remarks at the Business Forum on Inclusive Employment: Realizing Decent Work & Economic Growth for All

By Francesco d'Ovidio, Director of ILO for Indonesia and Timor-Leste at the Opening of the Business Forum on Inclusive Employment: Realizing Decent Work & Economic Growth for All

A new initiative

Promoting sustainable and inclusive growth through industrial relations in Indonesia

The InSIGHT Project aims to promote mechanisms and practical approaches that enable industries and workplaces to become drivers of sustainable and inclusive growth in the Asian region.

HIV prevention programmes

Private sectors in Papua and West Papua committed to prevent HIV at the workplaces

Ten companies in Sorong and Jayapura districts (five companies in each district) have committed to continue the implementation of HIV workplace programmes, in collaboration with local governments through community health centers.

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

2030 Agenda: Indonesia aims high

Decent work will be at the heart of Indonesia’s development agenda as it moves to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, explains Gilbert Houngbo, Deputy Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Sustainable Development Goals

ILO Conference sets agenda for inclusive growth through decent work and social dialogue in Indonesia

Participants to the high-level meeting agreed on developing an Indonesian Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals toward Decent Work for All.

Indonesia committed to achieve decent work for sustainable development

“This Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) conference is significant for Indonesia as the country is committed to realize decent work for all,” stated the Manpower Minister of the Republic of Indonesia, M. Hanif Dhakiri, in his keynote remarks when...

Indonesia to discuss Decent Work for Sustainable Development

Key Indonesian labour actors representing government agencies, employer as well as worker representatives gather in Jakarta on Wednesday, 17 February 2016, to examine employment policies, review lessons learned and adopt policy recommendations on...

Rising from disaster to a business woman

In her small shop, Susiyanti Br Sembiring was busy serving hot black coffees to her customers. Located at the shelter for refugees of the Mt. Sinabung, Karo District of North Sumatra, her small shop also provides daily needs, beverages and...

Indonesia prepares for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on decent work for all

The Indonesian Ministry of Manpower, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), will host a national conference for Indonesia in preparation for the Indonesian Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly the...

Story of Lila: Stop discriminating people with HIV

It felt like yesterday for Lila (name has been changed), 35 years old, remembering the day she knew that she was infected with HIV, eight years ago.

Local government of Papua to replicate HIV prevention programme at workplace

The Head of Provincial Manpower Office in Papua, Drs. Yan Piet Rawar, visited the ILO Jakarta Office on 22 January 2016 to meet the new Country Director of the ILO in Indonesia, Francesco d’Ovidio.

Private sectors in Papua and West Papua committed to HIV workplace prevention programmes

To mark the eighteen-month implementation of the ILO’s Mobilizing the Private Sector to Deliver HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care in High Prevalence Areas of Papua and West Papua Project, two meetings on Workplace Working Group on HIV from 18-20...