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Freeport dismisses 840 workers

Gold and copper mining firm PT Freeport has reportedly laid off 840 employees for going on strike in Timika, Papua ...

500,000 workers to take to street on Labor Day

Around 500,000 Indonesian workers will take to the street on May 1 to commemorate the Labor Day, the Confederation of ...

Minister wants trade unions to strengthen social dialog

Manpower Minister M Hanif Dakhiri has asked workers unions to reinforce social dialog at companies in order to solve ...

Agriculture minister to evaluate palm oil exports to Europe

Indonesian Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman will evaluate the export of palm oil and palm oil-based biodiesel ...

Govt always tries to better protect workers in tobacco industry

The Indonesian government will always try to improve the protection of workers in the cigarette and tobacco industry, ...

EU does not believe in walls, bans over immigration issue: Mogherini

The European Unions (EU) way to deal with immigration is cooperation and partnership, not walls and bans, EU foreign ...

Closely supervising temporary foreign workers

Reports on arrests and deportations of foreign workers have become quite frequent lately, as regional authorities ...

S.Korea`s Park faces calls to resign at huge protest rally

South Korean President Park Geun-hye faced mounting pressure to step down on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of ...

Indonesia to gain from tax amnesty law in long term: Expert

Tax amnesty policy would be beneficial to the state in long term, although in short term the policy cuts potential ...

BPJS-kesehatan now has 170 million members

Nearly 170 million Indonesian citizens have become members of the Health and Social Security Management Agency ...

House backs Indonesian govt in battle on tax amnesty

The Indonesian government is currently facing a legal battle at the Constitutional Court (MK) over its tax amnesty ...

Turkey's Erdogan orders closure of more schools, extends detention period

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has ordered the closure of more than 1,000 private schools and extended the ...

G20 labor ministers to encourage creation of jobs

Manpower Minister M Hanif Dhakiri hopes that the meeting of the G20 Labor Ministers in Beijing on July 12-13, 2016 ...

Government to withdraw 16,500 child laborers in 2016

The government is targeting to withdraw 16,500 child laborers in 2016 to support the "Keluarga Harapan" Program in 138 ...

Tax amnesty breakthrough or step backward?

Observers are split over the tax amnesty bill proposed by the government. Some said it is a breakthrough, but ...