Indonesia

The three partner organisations of WSM – all trade unions, organizing either workers in the formal or informal economy (including garment workers) either migrant workers – will work to enable 126.700 workers to have a more decent job and for 33.700 workers to have a better coverage by the Indonesian social security system by 2021. In their action plans K-SBSI, GARTEKS and SBMI will respectively focus on promoting access for all workers to the labour insurance and the health insurance, better legislation on minimum wages and the implementation of the wage scale, better workers’ rights and more freedom of association for garment workers, better protection for migrant workers. Together, in a joint collaboration, the three partner organisations will also inform 9.080 migrant workers in 8 provinces about the new Migrant Workers’ Law and lobby for its implementation at the local level to the potential benefit of 6,5 million migrants by 2021.

IIAV/IEOI finances and supports the strengthening of capacities of K-SBSI as leading organization in the set-up of national trade union networks as well as a number of transnational networks within Multinational companies (MNC) operating in Asia and their supply chains (SC) - in favour of a sustainable promotion of workers’ rights (including workers in domestic companies and in informal economy). This capacity strengthening for social dialogue includes strengthening of negotiation capacities (both human and structural), organizational capacities (representativeness, internal participation, and financial management), and institutional capacities (external communication, networking and collaboration with third parties). In Indonesia, K-SBSI will collaborate with other trade unions, labour inspectors and CSO’s; at the continental level with Cambodian Labour Confederation and with WSM’s Asian trade union partners, as well as with trade union branches, federations and confederations in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Burma, Vietnam and Laos; at the international level with partners of IIAV/IEOI and WSM, with the Clean Clothes Campaign and with others trade unions within the ITUC and the ILO. In order to enhance sustainability of results and specific objective, special (crosscutting as well as specific) attention will be paid to gender, environment and resource mobilisation towards financial autonomy.

• Konfederasi Serikat Buruh Sejahtera Indonesia (K-SBSI): since its establishment in 1992, K-SBSI became one of the more important independent labour confederations in Indonesia, representing and organizing more than 650.000 workers in 26 provinces of the archipelago. The confederation has 10 affiliated federations who are active in as good as all sectors of the formal and informal economy (agriculture, industries, services). Through  organizing  and  training  of  union  activists,  campaigning to  and  negotiations with employers and the government, K-SBSI promotes decent work, better working rights and social protection for all Indonesian workers.

1. In the action plan of WSM, K-SBSI will raise awareness to 349.000 workers on the labour insurance, the universal health insurance and how to get access to the benefits of the social security system. They will also conduct advocacy on the minimum wage legislation and the effective implementation of the wage scale.
2. Installing social dialogue (collective negotiations and dispute resolution) as most sustainable instrument for claiming and defending the rights of workers in precarious labour situations within multinationals (MNC’s) operating in Asia and their supply chains (SC’s) (including domestic companies and informal economy workers)– in favour of extension of contracts of indefinite duration, minimal living wages, and social protection.

• Federasi Garmen Tekstil, Kulit dan Sentra Industri (GARTEKS): GARTEKS is a union federation of workers in the garment, textile and shoe industry, affiliated to K-SBSI. Currently it has 43.000 members, of which the majority are women garment workers. In the program, GARTEKS will focus on organizing workers, training and building organizational capacity to promote freedom of association under the protocol and exercising collective bargaining with local employers and international brands to respect worker’s rights.  GARTEKS is an active partner of the International Clean Clothes Campaign and one of signatories of the Protocol on Freedom of Association that was signed in 2011 with six multinational sportswear brands.

• Serikat Buruh Migran Indonesia (SBMI):
  Since  2005  SBMI  is  counselling,  training  and  organising  Indonesian  migrant  workers  in Indonesia and abroad to know and exercise their legal rights. SBMI is active in 13 provinces and has about 5.000 members. Through the action plan 2017-2021 the organisation will provide paralegal training to its local leaders to assist and train the members. It will give legal assistance and temporary shelter to migrant workers who became the victim of exploitation or harassment. SBMI will negotiate with the employment agencies for a better protection for migrant workers, develop contact points at the local level and abroad to give legal aid to the migrant workers, strengthen the capacity and structures of the organisation and build support groups for migrant workers abroad.

The national synergy action will focus on informing and training 9.080 migrant workers in 8 provinces throughout the country on the new amended Migrant Worker’s Law in order for them to better exercise their rights granted to them through this law. At the same time the organisations will conduct advocacy to policy makers at the local level for effective implementation of the new law and by promoting the protection of the migrant workers in those 8 provinces.

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