Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SJHSS)
Volume-3 | Issue-09 | 1142-1148
Original Research Article
Exploitation of Outsourcing Labor (Case Study of Labor in Industrial Forest Plantation, Riau Province, Indonesia)
Efentinus Ndruru, Rizabuana Ismail, Zulkifli
Published : Sept. 30, 2018
Abstract
Criticim Republic of Indonesia Law Number 13 of 2003 concerning
Manpower is often the spotlight of labor activists. The "outsourcing" employment
contract system for plantation workers is seen as a practice of fragmentation,
degradative, discriminatory and exploitative effects on workers. Researchers on Nias
migrant workers in Pelalawan Riau HTI plantations are interpretations of the meaning
of the assumption of labor exploitation with a qualitative method approach. Results of
research on Nias migrant workers in HTI found that the application of the outsourcing
system is one form of labor exploitation. The level of education and openness to initial
information when in the recruitment process does not work properly. Workers are
"locked up" by agents through power structures that influence each other in dominant
and subordinate power. Model debt and payroll system it does not bring prosperity,
instead, workers are trapped in a cycle of poverty and exploitative. The head of the
group (kepala rombongan) (KR) as a “wild agent" and the contractor of the company
providing labor actually became an exploitative agent. The dream of workers getting
social security, THR, and welfare is gone when they see the situation they are treated
like a slave. Finally, Nias migrant workers can only come out if they struggle through
resistance and are assisted by "hands" of observers engaged in the struggle for labor
advocacy.