Tripartite constituents identify decent work indicators for national monitoring

Representatives of the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration (MoMT), the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), the BPS-Statistics Indonesia, the Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) and trade union confederations met during a 2-day tripartite workshop to discuss the monitoring and assessment of decent work in Indonesia.

Press release | 26 March 2010

JAKARTA (ILO News): Representatives of the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration (MoMT), the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), the BPS-Statistics Indonesia, the Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) and trade union confederations met during a 2-day tripartite workshop to discuss the monitoring and assessment of decent work in Indonesia. The meeting was held in Jakarta from 24-25 March and was facilitated by the International Labour Organization (ILO) with financial support from the European Union.

Indonesia is among the first countries in the world to embark on the measurement of decent work, joining Austria, fellow G-20 member Brazil and Tanzania. Decent work, the ILO’s main objective, describes opportunities for women and men to obtain work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.

Mr Peter Van Rooij, Officer-in-Charge of the ILO Office in Jakarta, opened the workshop and highlighted the significance of monitoring decent work to ensure growth and development help to reduce economic and social inequality in Indonesia.

Workshop participants made the case that Decent Work Indicators could be used to monitor progress on the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) for Indonesia, which is the framework for cooperation between the ILO, Government and the social partners. Furthermore, they could play an important role for monitoring employment outcomes of Indonesia’s Medium-term Development Plan.

The basic framework for measuring decent work was drawn up by a group of 20 international experts in September 2008, including Professor Dr. Armida Alisjahbana from Indonesia, now the Minister of Bappenas. Based on this framework, workshop participants identified a short list of thirteen priority indicators, among them trends in average real wages, the unemployment rate and the number of labour inspectors per 10,000 employees. Officials from the BPS provided guidance on which of these indicators are already available through the National Labour Force Survey (Sakernas).

Mr Djimanto, Deputy Chairman of Apindo, participated in the workshop and called for the regular monitoring and assessment of decent work by Indonesia’s tripartite councils at the national, provincial and district levels. Mr Thamrin Mosii of KSPI highlighted the various challenges that still exist to realize decent work for all Indonesian workers.

Participants noted that trends in Decent Work Indicators need to be analyzed on a regular basis in order to support national action to achieve decent work. To this end, the workshop requested that the ILO work with MoMT, BPS and the social partners to develop a Decent Work Country Profile that identifies areas where Indonesia has made progress and those that still require further action.

The workshop is part of the ILO’s initiative aimed at enhancing the capacity of member States regarding ‘Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work’ (MAP) that is carried out with funding from the European Union.

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