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Badminton heroes without trophies

A residential area in the corner of Malang City has highly contributed to the sustainability of badminton. However, they are paid a small amount of money for their hardwork.

ILO: Better Work Indonesia helps to stamp out fire risks in partner factories

When a fire tore through a footwear factory in Jakarta in 2010, four people died. They became trapped between the flames and a locked emergency exit. In Bangladesh, locked emergency exits were partly to blame for 112 fatalities during a massive...

Combating child labour through education

Knowledge sharing workshop reviews progress of ILO-IPEC project

The participants came from Bolivia, Indonesia, Mali and Uganda – the four project countries.

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

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...

A woman behind Rungkut’s “cake kampong"

‘Mbak’ Irul, the woman who initiated the “Cake Kampong” idea, has empowered women and developed the economy in her area.

Further efforts needed to work towards a sustainable and equitable economy, Says New ILO Report

While the world economy still struggles to recover from the economic crisis, the overall outlook for Indonesia in 2012 was largely positive thanks to the country’s strong focus on the development of economic infrastructure to address constraints to...

Workshop on South-to-South Cooperation in Combating Child Labour

The workshop, hosted by the ILO Jakarta Office, took place from 4 to 6 March 2013. It was attended by tripartite delegations from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Philippines, Viet Nam and Timor-Leste. The activity was organized within the framework...

Influencing a culture of zero harassment in Indonesia

To help its factory partners achieve zero tolerance, Better Work Indonesia works toward ensuring all factories have an appropriate policy in place and promote compliance with that policy.

ILO: Better Work Indonesia Strives to End Workplace Harassment

A worker is offered better hours or more money in return for sexual favours; a manager pinches the bottom of a worker; a worker spreads malicious rumours about a fellow co-worker. These are all forms of harassment, and are common in one form or...

South-to-South Cooperation Regional Workshop: Marking the regional efforts to end child labour by 2016

Key leaders representing government, employers, trade unions and other relevant stakeholders from six countries will meet at Hotel Balairung Jakarta, Monday (4/3), to look at ways of strengthening South-to-South cooperation in combating child labour.

ILO: Better Work Indonesia Programme Launch Phase 2

The Indonesian garment industry has enjoyed rapid growth, significantly contributing to the national economic growth by providing more than one million jobs and accounting for one of the primary state revenues.

Training of trainers for Indonesian labour inspectors (Bandung, Indonesia 20-24 January 2013)

LAB/ADMIN and ILO-Jakarta organized a training of labour inspector trainers (TOT) at the request of the Indonesian Ministry of Manpower and transmigration (MOMT) and in the context of the Norwegian-funded project on “Good Governance through Labour...

Promoting women’s access to decent work and equality in employment in indonesia

To further promote economic and social empowerment of women, the International Labour Organization (ILO) will conduct a one-day national workshop, “Promoting women’s access to decent work and equality in employment in Indonesia”, on Wednesday, 16...

ILO-AJI Jakarta to award journalists on child labour and education

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Jakarta will conduct a media award ceremony on child labour and education on the 15th December in Jakarta. The winners from five categories—print, online,...

Kimung, marginalized child worker: Fate of child sex workers

Amid increasing attention to the labour movement, child workers receive the least attention, but their fate and wages are far worse than those of workers in the formal sector.

ADB-OECD-ILO team up to examine trade and employment globally

As part of the International Collaborative Initiative on Trade and Employment (ICITE) activities, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and International Labour Organization (ILO) will host a...

The 2012 Human Rights Day: The right of children to be free from child labour

To commemorate the 2012 Human Rights Day, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Indonesia, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Terre des Hommes will host a film screening and a panel discussion on Child...

Report launch: Social protection assessment based national dialogue: Towards a nationally defined social protection floor in Indonesia

On December 6th the ILO-Jakarta and the Indonesian Ministry of Planning, Bappenas, jointly launched the report “Social Protection Assessment Based National Dialogue: Towards a Nationally Defined Social Protection Floor in Indonesia”.

Promoting universal social protection coverage in Indonesia

As part of national efforts to implement universal social protection in Indonesia, the International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), has launched the key results of the Social...

‘Decent work’ in Indonesia: What do the indicators say?

Indonesia has come a long way since the economic and political turmoil of the late 1990s. Economic shocks aside, recent GDP growth has been robust, while macroeconomic stability has improved and both poverty and unemployment have fallen.