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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 -
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 -
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 -
Beyond the Femina fantasy: female industrial and overseas domestic labour in Indonesian discourses of women's work
Published 2003-01-01In the late 1990s, scholarly attention turned to glossy publications such as Femina, the premier Indonesian women's magazine, for insights into what it means to be a woman in Indonesia. When Brenner analysed the visual and ...Open AccessArticle -
Who are the Orang Riau? Negotiating Identity across Geographic and Ethnic Divides
Published 2003-01-01Debates about identity have multiplied across Indonesia in the wake of the implementation of regional autonomy. In the ethnically heterogeneous province of Riau, identity is prominent in the public debate and pivotal to ...Open AccessBook chapter -
A Challenge for Business? Developments in Indonesian Trade Unionism after Soeharto
Published 2004-01-01This chapter discusses debates on unionism and business from a labour movement perspective. It begins by briefly outlining developments in unionism in New Order Indonesia and sketching changes in the regulatory environment ...Open AccessBook chapter -
After Nunukan: The Regulation of Indonesian Migration to Malaysia
Published 2006-01-01Labour migration from Indonesia to Malaysia is a complex phenomenon. Migrants enter Malaysia via a range of formal, semi-formal and informal channels, primarily through Sumatra and Kalimantan. Although Indonesian authorities ...Open AccessBook chapter -
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 -
Emerging Labour Movements and the Accountability Dilemma: The Case of Indonesia
Published 2006-01-01This chapter begins by examining the arguments most often made about the differences between labor unions and labor NGOs and the effects those differences have on the nature and extent of their accountability to workers. ...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 -
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 -
The Borders Within: Mobility and Enclosure in the Riau Islands
Published 2006-01-01The border studies literature makes a strong case against claims for unfettered transnationalism and ‘borderlessness’ in our ‘globalising world’. However, its focus on movement across borders means that it fails to address ...Open AccessArticle -
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 -
Where Internal and International Migration Intersect: Mobility and the Formation of Multi-Ethnic Communities in the Riau Islands Transit Zone
Published 2007-01-01While migration studies scholars have paid considerable attention to internal migration within Indonesia, as well as to international labour migration flows from Indonesia, they have rarely considered the intersections ...Open AccessArticle -
Women and labour organizing in Asia: diversity, autonomy and activism
Published 2008-01-01Women have become the new face of industrial labour – and of labour activism – not only in Korea, in all but the most and least developed countries of Asia. Export-oriented industrialization strategies favoured throughout ...Open AccessBook chapter -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Women's Labor Activism in Indonesia
Published 2008-01-01In her discussion of working‐class women’s labor activism in Thailand, Mary Beth Mills argues that an understanding of the “diverse ideological effects, structural constraints, and contested identities within women’s labor ...Open AccessArticle -
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