Two decades after Indonesia's transition to democracy, its labor movement has emerged as a vibrant and influential political actor. Labor and Politics in Indonesia provides the first in-depth analysis of this development, investigating how a structurally weak labor movement carved out a strategic foothold in a country with no recent history of union engagement in politics. Caraway and Ford show…
After decades of repression, Indonesia’s independent labour movement re-emerged in the 1990s led by the NGO activist and students who organised industrial workers and spoke on their behalf.