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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 -
Protecting and Preserving Underwater Cultural Heritage in Southeast Asia
Published 2019-01-01This chapter examines Southeast Asia’s significant underwater cultural heritage, which faces a range of threats. The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage has afforded greater protection ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Regulatory Approaches to Managing Skilled Migration: Indonesian Nurses in Japan
Published 2016-01-01This article examines the Japan–Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement, an agreement that has allowed Japan to supplement its local healthcare workforce while continuing to sidestep the thorny issue of labour and immigration ...Open AccessArticle -
Responses to Changing Labour Relations: The Case of Women's NGOs in Indonesia
Published 2002-01-01The feminisation of factory work and increases in female labour migration are two widely noted effects of globalisation on the work of women in developing countries in the late twentieth century. While factory labour and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Shipwrecked? The ethics of underwater cultural heritage in Indonesia
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Singaporean First: Challenging the Concept of Transnational Malay Masculinity
Published 2009-01-01This chapter calls into question ideas about the existence of a transnational Malay-Muslim identity by examining the ways in which Malay men understand and perform their masculinity vis-a-vis men in the neighbouring countries ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Smuggling Cultures in the Indonesia-Singapore Borderlands
Published 2012-01-01In this chapter, we examine the unauthorised movement of goods across the border to and from Indonesia's Riau Islands from the perspective of the individuals who smuggle and consume them, and from the perspective of local ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Social Activism in Southeast Asia: An Introduction
Published 2013-01-01From People Power in the Philippines to the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, Southeast Asia is a region in constant political and social flux. It is home to myriad forms of social activism, from lone cyber-activists and small ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Southern Sites of Female Agency: Informal Regimes and Female Migrant Labour Resistance in East and Southeast Asia
Published 2007-01-01This chapter focuses on FDWs’ collective activism and middle-class campaigns in sending and receiving countries in East and Southeast Asia around foreign domestic worker issues. The chapter begins with a brief overview of ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The State, Democratic Transition and Employment Relations in Indonesia
Published 2016-01-01Indonesia’s transition since 1998 from authoritarian developmentalism to democracy has had a fundamental effect on employment relations. Although the basic structure of the economy has not changed, the twin processes of ...Open AccessArticle -
Stopping the hordes: a critical account of the Labor government's regional approach to the management of asylum seekers
Published 2010-01-01Open AccessArticle -
Temporary Labour Migration and Care Work: The Japanese Experience
Published 2013-01-01Around the world, advanced industrial societies are facing a demographic time bomb that has enormous implications for the workforce in general, but for workforce planning and industrial relations in the health sector and ...Open AccessArticle -
Temporary Transnationals: Southeast Asian Students in Australia
Published 2011-01-01Despite rapidly increasing global flows of international students, research to date has paid little heed to how students abroad identify and mobilise. Focusing on the experience of Indonesians, Malaysians and Singaporeans ...Open AccessArticle -
Trade Unions, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking
Published 2015-01-01This article examines the dilemmas facing trade unions seeking to engage on questions of forced labour and human trafficking. The International Labour Organization and elements of the international trade union movement ...Open AccessArticle -
Trafficking Versus Smuggling: Malaysia's Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act
Published 2014-01-01In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the Malaysian government has faced increasing pressure to improve its treatment of its large migrant population. To address international criticism and to improve the treatment ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Translating Membership into Power at the Ballot Box? Trade Union Candidates and Worker Voting Patterns in Indonesia’s National Elections
Published 2015-01-01This article analyses the effectiveness of trade unions’ electoral engagement in the union-dense electoral localities of Bekasi and Tangerang in Indonesia’s 2009 legislative elections. Our analysis reveals that legacies ...Open AccessArticle