The Jakarta Post
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsinformal-sector
Regulations 1 year ago
PREMIUM
Property developers push rent-to-own scheme for informal workers
In a meeting with House Commission V on Tuesday, representatives of two property developers associations put forth an idea to offer a rent-to-own scheme to ease access to home financing for informal workers who might otherwise fall through the cracks of creditworthiness criteria and bank scoring models.
Economy 1 year ago
PREMIUM
US tariffs spark layoff concerns, risk expanding informal sector
Before the world felt the blow from US tariffs, there were an estimated 80,000 layoffs in Indonesia last year, according to official data from the Manpower Ministry. The ministry also estimated another 18,610 workers were laid off during the first two months of this year
Companies 2 years ago
PREMIUM
Informality in Indonesia and middle-income trap
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia progressed positively by driving down workers in the informal sector from 65 percent in 2007 to 56 percent in 2019. The tide has turned because of the pandemic, and as a result, the number of informal workers jumped to almost 80 million workers, or 59 percent of total employment in 2023.
Editor's Picks
Popular
- Indonesia calls for more representative UN amid changing world order
- Safeguarding Indonesia's AI future
- Recentralization concerns in fiscal, education heighten
- Court decision tightens House oversight on free meals funding
- Twenty years on, BRICS faces a defining choice
- Jakarta water shortages worsen as dry season drags on
- Indian arrested for smuggling gold bars to Thailand via N. Sumatra airport
- Singapore’s BDx launches 640MW data center project in West Java
- Govt under pressure as 3 million home drive hits cracks
- Gontor leader’s blunt remarks highlight ‘pesantren’ political independence
