The International Labour Organization (ILO) organized a series of seminars on sustainable and responsible businesPrs practices in Indonesia. These series of seminars responded to the complex challenges that currently affect the world of work, particularly the uncertainty from the slowing of global and national economies, reliance on a degraded resource base which is further threatened by an inevitable change in climate conditions and social inclusion. These challenges have pushed the industries to change from ‘business as usual’ and improve its delivery of economic, social and ecological values to the whole society.

These series of ILO’s events aimed to engage the key labour actors, particularly the tripartite partners (governments, workers and employers), towards implementing sustainable and responsible practices as means for exploring measures for joint actions.

These series of events were facilitated with Yukiko Arai, an expert of the ILO Multinational Enterprises and Enterprise Engagement Unit in Geneva. “Socially responsible practices are often seen as costly and harmful to competitiveness, but I hope these events help demonstrate that realising win-win outcomes is possible through competitiveness enhancing socially responsible labour and business practices,” she said.

The series of events were conducted by the ILO through its Workplaces and Industries for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Project (InSIGHT Project). Funded by the Government of Japan, the Project is aimed to strengthen policy dialogue and institutional capacities to promote sustainable and inclusive growth in industries and workplaces. It is also aimed to enhance local tripartite structures and support systems to foster sustainability and competitiveness at sector and workplace levels.

These series of events were as follows:

Promoting employment and enhancing business linkages in Indonesia

Pathways to enhancing industrial relations in Indonesia

Global hotel chains in Bali to promote youth employment