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Submitted by user13 on March 16, 2007
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Some major issues in Indonesia include abuse of labor workers, bird flu, human rights
and forced evictions. These issues play a powerful role in Indonesia’s society and the
government should take action against these atrocities and/or be held accountability for the
wrong doings and deaths. The first major issue is abuse of labor workers. In the article “Abuse
rife at Nike's Indonesia plants” workers at nine factories under contract by the U.S. sportswear
giant Nike says they have either suffered or have witnessed sexual and verbal abuse. Abuse
included working illegal overtime and not being able to take sick or annual leave. The article
was based off interviews of more that 4,000 workers at different plants and funded by Nike itself.
Nike has acknowledged that the findings are disturbing, but said it welcomes the chance to
improve conditions. Nike has promised to fix the problems by launching independent investigations into
the allegations of abuse and to establish a channel that will allow workers to bring harassment issues
directly to the management.
Another article “Abuse in Indonesia cited” said “hundreds of thousands of girls working
as maids in Indonesia could be abused physically, sexually and psychologically”. Human Rights
Watch criticized the government's failure to regulate the domestic service industry and to protect
the rights of child workers. Sahr Muhammed Ally a researcher for the Human Rights Watch
stated that “there’s a denial of any exploitation and that the lack of government oversight gives
employers a blank check to abuse domestic workers."
The secretary general of the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration Tjepy Aloewie
stated that there are cases of abuse but they do not...
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