Labor conditions in Indonesia

Labor conditions in Indonesia

In response to an article in The Jakarta Post of April 28,
1995, entitled RI should Improve labor conditions: WB, with
comments made by Nisha Agrawal, the World Bank economist, I would
be pleased to submit the following information:

1. Implementation of the right to organize in Indonesia is
secured by the 1945 Constitution and the existing labor
legislations;

2. The All Indonesian Workers Union (SPSI) has taken
organizational reformation from unitary to federation with the
establishment of 13 independent sectoral trade unions which have
been registered in the Ministry of Manpower in accordance with
the Manpower Ministerial Regulation No PER. 03/MEN/1993;

3. Guidance on the establishment and development of a Trade
Union at plant level (UK SPSI) is regulated under Manpower
Ministerial Decision No KEP 438/MEN/1992. Other than the above
mentioned legislations, the Republic of Indonesia has issued
Manpower Ministerial Regulation No PER. 01/MEN/1994 on Workers'
Unions at company level (SPTP), and up to April 1995 a total of
734 SPTPs have been established, some of them setting up
collective labor agreements.

ACHMAD HADIULANAM

Secretary

Directorate General

of Industrial and Labor Standards

Jakarta