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Widodo's Employment Creation Law, 2020 - What Its Journey Tells Us about Indonesian Politics (Paperback)
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Widodo's Employment Creation Law, 2020 - What Its Journey Tells Us about Indonesian Politics (Paperback)
Series: Trends in Southeast Asia (TRS)
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Loot Price R219
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During 2020, the Widodo government introduced a new Bill for
parliamentary consideration. This was the Employment Creation Law.
It was also known as the Omnibus Law as it introduced amendments to
seventy-four other existing laws on a wide range of matters. The
Bill provoked considerable controversy, especially provisions
reducing protection of labour rights and weakening environmental
protection laws. Several provisions introducing further
deregulation of a range of activities also attracted criticism. The
labour and environmental issues were the basis for a series of
street protest mobilizations during the year. These also involved
mobilizations where university students participated. The Law was
justified by the government in its supplementary material to the
legislation as a strategy to attain a specific growth rate in the
gross domestic product and arguing that the revisions in the Law
were necessary to substantially improve what was described as Ease
of Doing Business. Despite the protests and criticism, the law was
passed by a big majority in Parliament on 5 October 2020. All
member parties of the governing coalition voted for the Bill, and
it was signed into law by President Joko Widodo on 2 November 2020.
The political journey of this Bill into Law revealed very clearly
the homogeneity of the Indonesian political elite, represented by
the parliamentary parties, all of whom either supported or
acquiesced to the Law. It was also revealed that sustained and
mobilized opposition to the Law was basically confined to a section
of civil society, with some sections, including important large
trade unions, campaigning in only a moderate and constrained way.
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