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PKS to fight against fuel price hikes

The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) will fight against the plan to increase subsidized fuel oil price during the ...

RI pulling out child workers, sending them to school

The Indonesian government is launching an intensive program to withdraw child workers from their workplaces and send ...

President Yudhoyono to inaugurate hospital for workers in August 2013

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is expected to inaugurate Hospital for Workers in August 2013, according to State ...

Indonesian family empowerment program reduces poverty

Social Affairs Minister Salim Segaf Al Jufri said the implementation of the Family Empowerment Program (PKH) had ...

Indonesia to be free of child laborers in 2020: Minister

Indonesia is expected to be free from child laborers in 2020 through the implementation of its Child Labor Elimination ...

Kaesong standofff should be resolved through dialogue

South Korea`s unification minister said Thursday he hopes North Korea will immediately come to the negotiating table ...

Minister supports employers` desire to set wages for workers

Chief Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa has supported the idea that minimum wages for laborers should be decided based on ...

Workers to have hospital as "gift" on independence day

When the Indonesian people will celebrate the country`s Independence Day on August 17 this year, blue-collar workers ...

Number of drug users in Indonesia predicted to grow: Anti-narcotics body

It is predicted that the number of drug users in Indonesia will increase from 3.8 million in 2011 (2.2 percent of ...

Power tariff increase should be evaluated

The government`s plan to increase the electricity tariff by 15 percent this year should be evaluated, said the ...

Electricity rate hike to weaken laborers` purchasing power

An increase in the price of electricity beginning this month will reduce the purchasing power of laborers, Said Iqbal, ...

Dignifying women without exploitation

Until the end of 2012, women in Indonesia and in most of Asia`s developing countries seem to suffer more due to the ...

Govt to lift outsourcing system

The government looks set to lift the outsourcing recruitment system but will still maintain it in the recruitment of ...

Laborers in Jakarta and its buffer zone towns to hold joint strikes

Some laborers from Jakarta and its satellite towns of Tangerang, Bekasi, Depok and Karawang will hold a national joint ...

Thousands of workers protest against outsourcing system

Thousands of workers from various labour unions gathered in front of the manpower ministry and staged a demonstration ...