Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Indonesia (Ratification: 1998)

Article 3. Right of workers’ organizations to organize their activities and formulate their programmes without interference by the public authorities. Conditions for the exercise of the right to strike. The Committee notes that section 140(2) of the Manpower Act No. 13 of 2003 requires that the written notification to be given by workers who intend to stage a strike indicates the ending time of the strike. The Committee considers that workers and their organizations should be able to call a strike for an indefinite period if they so wish. The Committee requests the Government to indicate whether workers and their organizations can call a strike for an indefinite period of time.