World Experts Lecture by Dr. Max Lane at UP SOLAIR
The lecture, The Indonesian Labor Movement: Class, Nation and the Forgetting of Development by Dr. Maxwell Lane, will be held in-person/face-to-face in the 5th Floor Mini Hall of the new UP SOLAIR Building, on 11 March 2023, from 1:00PM onwards, and online via Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/UPSOLAIR) and Zoom (for registered participants).

Registered participants will receive relevant updates and the Zoom details for the lecture through the contact information they provide and will likewise receive certificates of attendance through their declared email addresses. 
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WOLD EXPERTS LECTURE INFORMATION
Title: The Indonesian Labor Movement: Class, Nation and the Forgetting of Development
Lecturer/Expert: Dr. Maxwell Lane

Schedule: Tuesday, 11 March 2023; 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Venue: 5th Floor Mini Hall, New Building
School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SOLAIR)
Bonifacio Hall, Magsaysay Ave cor. RP de Guzman
UP Campus, Diliman, Quezon City

Abstract: During the 32 years of the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia, the state exercised tight control over trade union activity, almost totally eliminating such activity. When the dictatorship fell in 1998, President B.J. Habibie quickly ratified the ILO covenant covering trade union rights and since then trade unions mushroomed in medium sized and large workplaces. There are now several confederations, many federations and probably thousands of individual enterprise unions. But labor remains impotent and is being pushed back on almost all fronts where it is campaigning. Fundamental reasons for this weakness include:
  • Unionized labor, already fragmented to the extreme, represents and will only ever represent only a miniscule percentage of the Indonesian working masses.
  • The ghettoization of fragmented, organized labor focused on immediate wages and conditions demands separated from any discussion or struggle about the developments of the nation in general.
  • The forgetting of the nation, national development and the national revolution as a consequence of the 32 years of the counter-revolutionary dictatorship – a counter revolution against the national revolution.
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