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The illegal as mundane
Published 2019-10-28Ways of studying illegal behaviour are important in the context of Indonesia, a country well known for its failure to deal adequately with the corruption that permeates every level of society. They are perhaps even more ...Open AccessArticle -
In Search of a Living Wage in Southeast Asia
Published 2017-01-01Purpose – Debates over the definition, processes and outcomes of minimum and “living” wages are heated and often politically contentious in garment-producing countries. Internationally, there have been various initiatives ...Open AccessArticle -
Indonesia as an Archipelago: Managing Islands, Managing the Seas
Published 2009-01-01Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state. By the latest official count, the archipelago consists of 18,108 islands, which lie scattered between the mountainous island of Breueh in the west and tiny Sibir Island ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Indonesian labour since Suharto: Perspectives from the region
Published 2008-01-01Since the mid 1980s, Indonesian labour has gone through a turbulent period of restructuring and reformation, as the industrial relations landscape was transformed, firstly by the government’s export-oriented industrialisation ...Open AccessArticle -
Indonesian Women as Export Commodity: Notes from Tanjung Pinang
Published 2001-01-01In Indonesia, the plight of TKW (Tenaga Kerja Wanita - the common term for women migrant workers) has been a subject of public controversy for decades. Academic accounts of the conditions of Indonesian migrant domestic ...Open AccessArticle -
Institutions and Collective Action in Divided Labour Movements: Evidence from Indonesia
Published 2017-01-01Under what conditions do trade unions in divided labour movements cooperate? Does cooperation in one domain increase the likelihood of cooperation in the other? Do institutions facilitate or discourage cooperation? We ...Open AccessArticle -
The International Labour Organization as a Development Actor in Southeast Asia
Published 2018-01-01Typically, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is discussed in narrow terms with specific reference to its role in setting labor standards and the success or otherwise of its attempts to convince governments and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
International Networks and Human Rights in Indonesia
Published 2011-01-01Following Risse and Sikkink, I privilege the point of interaction between local and international campaigns for better access to human rights in my analysis of the socialisation of human rights norms and the establishment ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Introduction: Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia
Published 2012-01-01Men and masculinities are the subject of burgeoning scholarly interest, much of it driven by a desire to render masculinities visible. Masculinities scholars argue that men as men have rarely been treated as the subjects ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Introduction: Thinking about Indonesian Women and Work
Published 2008-01-01Women and Work in Indonesia is an edited collection of papers that aims to examine the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. The chapters interrogate some of the formerly clear-cut divisions that even the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Investing in Care Key to Boosting Economic Growth
Published 2019-01-01The need to increase women’s labour market participation and economic security is on the ‘to do’ list of most governments and major global institutions. Global consulting firm McKinsey calculates that global GDP would ...Open AccessArticle -
It’s about Bang for Your Buck, Bro: Singaporean Men’s Online Conversations about Sex in Batam, Indonesia
Published 2008-01-01Studies of sexuality and the Internet have focused on how the web provides individuals with opportunities to perform new sexual acts and establish new sexual communities, thus challenging heteronormative models of sexuality. ...Open AccessArticle -
Labor Migration, Trafficking and Border Controls
Published 2012-01-01The increasing securitization of borders can make the process of border crossing more onerous and expensive for all individuals who seek to cross the border. As a result, borderlanders involved in routinized border crossings ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Labour Migration and Human Trafficking: An Introduction
Published 2012-01-01Anti-trafficking initiatives grew exponentially since the United Nations passed the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (hereafter the UN Trafficking Protocol) ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Labour NGOs: An Alternative Form of Labour Organizing in Indonesia, 1991-1998
Published 2006-01-01Although Indonesia's labour non-government organizations (NGOs) are in many ways unique, they are in fact part of a global surge in non-traditional labour activism, in which international and indigenous labour NGOs have ...Open AccessArticle -
Learning by Doing: Trade Unions and Electoral Politics in Batam, Indonesia, 2004-2009
Published 2014-01-01Academic studies of local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia focus on the emergence of coalitions between parties and candidates, arguing that the entrenched and dominant role of political elites has effectively excluded ...Open AccessArticle -
Legal Issues Associated with the Study of Sexual Content on the Internet in Australia
Published 2010-01-01Scholarly recognition of the research potentials of the Internet has resulted in a growing interest in using computer-mediated communication to study different aspects of human sexuality. Although there is a growing ...Open AccessArticle -
The Limits of Mutual Aid: Emerging Forms of Collectivity among App-Based Transport Workers in Indonesia
Published 2019-04-01App-based transport has grown rapidly in Indonesia, and now provides work for over a million private commercial drivers. A large proportion of online drivers have joined self-organised community organisations that operate ...Open AccessArticle -
Love, Sex and the Spaces In-Between: Kepri Wives and their Cross-Border Husbands
Published 2008-01-01In the Riau Islands of Indonesia significant numbers of women have entered into marriages with men from the nearby countries of Singapore and Malaysia. In many cases, neither spouse migrates after marriage: instead, husband ...Open AccessArticle -
The Making of Industrial Relations in Timor-Leste
Published 2016-01-01As a new nation, Timor-Leste offers a unique case where formal industrial relations mechanisms have been developed as part of a broader project of state formation. In other words, the transformation of employment relations ...Open AccessArticle