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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 -
Manfaat Pendekatan Sejarah dalam Studi Hubungan Industrial dan Gerakan Buruh Kontemporer
Published 2002-01-01Dalam konteks studi kontemporer, pendekatan sejarah bukan berarti memusatkan perhatian pada masa lalu, melainkan mengembangkan sikap kritis terhadap sejarah perburuhan dan dampaknya pada perkembangan masa kini. Di Indonesia, ...Open AccessArticle -
Migrant Labor NGOs and Trade Unions: A Partnership in Progress?
Published 2006-01-01Over the last two decades, the needs and interests of temporary international labor migrants in Southeast Asia have overwhelmingly been the concern of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rather than trade unions. However, ...Open AccessArticle -
Migrant Worker Organizing in Indonesia
Published 2006-01-01This article examines attempts by Indonesian migrant labor NGOs, migrant worker organizations and trade unions to promote the labor rights of Indonesian migrant workers employed overseas. In recent years trade unions in ...Open AccessArticle -
Narratives of Agency: Sex Work in Indonesia’s Borderlands
Published 2011-01-01Lia’s and Ani’s narratives raise questions about how we can theorize the “constrained choice to become a sex worker, without moralisingly declaring all sex work to be exploitation or violence against women” (Schotten 2005: ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Naval Shipwrecks in Indonesia
Published 2017-01-01This paper examines naval heritage in Indonesian waters, focusing on HMAS Perth (I) and other Allied vessels that sank in the Java Sea and the Sunda Strait in 1942, and argues for a re-consideration of what we understand ...Open AccessConference paper -
Outsourcing Border Security: NGO Involvement in the Monitoring, Processing and Assistance of Indonesian Nationals Returning Illegally by Sea
Published 2013-01-01Since the signing of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the Straits of Malacca have been identified as a “hot spot” for whole range of maritime security threats, including human trafficking ...Open AccessArticle -
Politicizing the Minimum Wage: Wage Councils, Worker Mobilization, and Local Elections in Indonesia
Published 2019-01-01Indonesia’s weak labor movement transformed local wage councils from institutions of wage restraint into institutions that delivered generous wage increases. This article argues that the arrival of direct elections created ...Open AccessArticle -
Powering a Modern Life? Residents’ Experiences of the Electricity Supply in Tanjung Pinang
Published 2018-12-11Access to an affordable and reliable electricity supply is vital not only for economic development but also for citizens’ quality of life. Indonesia has made significant progress towards near-universal electrification, but ...Open AccessArticle