Beyond Decent Work: The Cultural Political Economy of Labour Struggles in Indonesia

Saptari, Ratna

doi:10.1080/00074918.2018.1522998

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“…If we look closely, the decent work agenda seems to protect workers from injustice by offering the protections of standard employment relations, but this agenda has several limitations. Decent work agendas can be regarded as soft legal instruments that do not change the underlying power structures (Saptari, 2018). The decent work agenda in practice is not able to hinder the precarisation or informalisation of the formal job, which has reduced welfare and decent working conditions for workers (Durán & Narbona, 2021;Buckley, 2022).…”

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Novianto,

Dessi Wulansari,

Keban

2023

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The conditions of gig workers, such as platform drivers, differ sharply between countries in central and peripheral capitalism. Working conditions with long working hours, low incomes and lack of social protection tend to be more severe for gig workers in peripheral than in central capitalism. This article draws on a survey of 290 drivers working for ride-hailing, food-delivery and courier platforms in one of the peripheral capitalist countries, namely Indonesia. It examines the precariousness of their working conditions in relation to the International Labour Organization’s Decent Work Indicators and concludes that of the ten decent work indicators, platform drivers only receive two. However, this decent work agenda has limitations: first, the decent work indicators have not been able to protect specific forms of work in digital labour; second, the minimum wage in decent work in Indonesia does not represent a living wage, so is rejected by many platform drivers; and third, the concept of decent work cannot be extended to cover future working conditions that are fair and without exploitation.

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“…There are various forms of gender ideology that regulate the identities, positions, and behaviour of women and men. Some of these ideologies are dominant, some are not in a certain place and time [17]. Compared to matriarchal ideology, patriarchal ideology is recognized as greatly dominant in Asian society [4].…”

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No Space at Home: Gender Ideology and Livelihood in Environmental Forced Migration

Anggaunitakiranantika¹

2022

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The lives of women who have decided to become Indonesian migrant workers in several Asia Pacific areas, such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, provide fascinating research opportunities. This research took as a case study several women from East Java Province who chose to become Indonesian migrant workers due to the loss of agricultural land or plantation fields as their main livelihood. The research analyzed the phenomenon of the migration of women as a result of the environmental crisis, which is a crisis specific to rural areas, as well as the gender ideology that accompanies the phenomenon of feminized labor in Indonesia. This research was conducted with a qualitative paradigm using the snowball technique for recruitment. The research location was in Banyuwangi Regency, East Java Province, Indonesia. The results of the research revealed that in the agricultural sector, which is a source of livelihood, land productivity continues to diminish due to famines, climate change, and land conditions that are not strategic and are progressively narrowed due to industrialization. Instead, land as an agricultural asset can be turned into cost capital for villagers, specifically women, to discover better jobs by migrating as Indonesian migrant workers. In carrying out international migration, the women attempted to alter the gender ideology, transform various negative stereotypes and become empowered and independent female workers. Keywords: environmental, forced migration, gender ideology, livelihood

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Beyond Decent Work: The Cultural Political Economy of Labour Struggles in Indonesia

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