THE OUTLOCK OF INDONESIA TRADE UNION MOVEMENT INTO SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND TO ACHIVED BETTER WORK

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THE OUTLOCK OF INDONESIA TRADE UNION
MOVEMENT INTO SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND TO ACHIVED
BETTER WORK
KONFEDERASI SERIKAT BURUH SEJAHTERA
INDONESIA K.S.B.S.I
By Andy William Sinaga Chair of
Organiser,Recruitmen Campaign KSBSI
PRESENTED AT GTZ Asia Region New Delhi, 15
September 2009
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Background

• Indonesia IR has changed dramatically since the
  fall of the Soeharto rezim in 1998
• Increasing number of plan level union from 6.211
  (1999) to 11.467 plan level union, 90 Federation
  at national level, with 3,4 members,
  3Confederations(KSBSI,KSPSI,KSPI)
• Union density 6,2 percent (3,4 m)
• Labor Force 111.5 M

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MAJOR LAWS ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

• Act Nr. 3 of the year 1992 on Workers Social
  Security
• Act Nr. 21 of the year 2000 on Trade Union/Labour
  Union
• Act Nr. 13 of the year 2003 on Manpower
• Act Nr. 2 of the year 2004 on Industrial
  Relations Disputes Settlement

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Principal of Industrial Relation

• Common interest among employer, employee and
  government.
• Partnership between workers and employer
• High Productivity
• Improvement of Workers Welfare
• employer will do the business fairly and
  workers will earn their fair remunerations

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Social Dialogue into Industrial Relation

• Indonesia has ratified ILO Convention No. 144
  concerning Tripartite Consultation. And to
  strengthened the role of Tripartite Consultation
  ,President Republic Of Indonesia issued
  Government Regulation No. 8 of 2005 on Tripartite
  Cooperation Body.

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The Existing Trade Union Within Social Dialogue

• Trade Union have actively regard discussion and
  meeting with others tripartite parties
  (Government, Employers Org) to formulate and
  maintain policies of employment policies.
• Exp. Regularly meeting to discuss the impact
  of global crisis and make strategy to tackle the
  crisis. Seat together to decide wages policies.

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FORM AND PROCESS OF SOCIAL DIALOGUE

• Institutions For Social Dialogue
• Tripartite Cooperative body National, province,
  Municipal/Distric Level
• Wages Council (National,Province,Municipal/disctic
  level)
• Occupational, Health and Safety Council
• National Productivity Council
• Industrial Relations Courts
• National Bipartite Forum
• Bipartite Cooperative Body

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BIPARTITE COOPERATION

• The Ministry Of Manpower Decree No. 255/2003
  stipulates that the LKS Bipartite Consists of 6
  to 20 permanent members that comprises equal
  number of delegates from management and workers.
• The task of bipartite cooperation in workplace,
  sharing information, discussing, consultation,
  and negotiation with plan level union.
• Reports its activities once semester to the
  manpower office.

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IR and PRODUCTIVITY
WA
INDIVIDUAL
INDUSTRIAL RELATION
CR
MACRO MINIMUM (LAWS REGULATIONS)
COLLECTIVE
CBA
RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS (both parties)
MICRO- CONDITIONAL (TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT)
Objective
WA Work Agreement CR Company Regulation CLA
Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sustainability of Business Labors welfare
PRODUCTIVITY
Better Job safe business
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TU Business with Informal Sectors

• Background increasing numbers of informal
  sectors (70,5 M)
• Organized informal workers (home-workers, street
  vendors, motorcycle drivers) into members of
  Trade Union (TU)
• Trained I.W to involve in credit union or
  cooperative
• Involving informal workers into Social Security
  (Jamsostek)

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Continue

• KSBSI has fully supported of informal sector by
  provided socio economic program by establish
  small cooperative in Jambi, furniture home
  industry in Tangerang, brick in Aceh,etc.
• Most of informal economy project has stressing to
  dismissal workers.

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Status of informal economy workers

• Unprotected
• Excluded
• Unrecognized or
• Unrepresented