News and press releases

This is a list of official ILO press releases issued by the ILO office in Jakarta and Timor-Leste. Some are available in multiple languages, indicated on the top of each release. The most recent release is at the top.

2016

  1. Managing risks, saving lives: Addressing workplace safety issues in garment industry

    07 April 2016

    The seminar provided a venue for interactive dialogue and sharing of experiences among participating factories. OSH experts were also at hand to clarify about regulations and techncial aspects.

  2. Moving towards inclusive businesses in Indonesia

    23 March 2016

    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 than non-disabled people, concluded by the one-day Inclusive Business Forum held in Jakarta on 22 March.

  3. Disability Business Forum: Indonesian companies to move towards disability inclusion

    22 March 2016

    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 companies are learning that people with disabilities are productive and that they bring many benefits to the workplace.

  4. Promoting sustainable and inclusive growth through industrial relations in Indonesia

    17 March 2016

    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.

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

    09 March 2016

    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.

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

    19 February 2016

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

  7. Indonesia committed to achieve decent work for sustainable development

    17 February 2016

    “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 officially opened the SDGs Conference in Jakarta.

  8. Indonesia to discuss Decent Work for Sustainable Development

    16 February 2016

    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 decent work and sustainable development.

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

    11 February 2016

    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 Goal 8: “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.” The Conference will be conducted at Borobudur Hotel, Jakarta from 17-18 February.

  10. Local government of Papua to replicate HIV prevention programme at workplace

    22 January 2016

    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.