In general, there are two assumptions often associated with the Indonesian labor movement in the Reformation Era: (1) the labor movement inhibits the production process and the investment climate by conducting demonstrations and/or strikes and (2) the labor movement constantly makes unreasonable demands, generally attributed to wage increases demands. This paper attempts to position these assumptions as irrelevant and also potentially lead to backward thinking in seeing how the labor movement struggles to achieve prosperity for all Indonesian workers. Through biopolitical analysis, this paper tries to explain that giving workers the right to association will not threaten national security, as long as freedom of association can be regulated and directed to ensure the survival of labor, the condusive social relations of production and the improvement of the living conditions of society in order to sustain the economic system. The analysis in this paper has led to the finding that the demands provided by the labor movement are part of the corrective mechanisms of the production system in Indonesia, and the freedom of labor to associate is an essential factor that can guarantee the economic and political security as well as the sovereignty of the Indonesian state.
Artikel ini mengkaji kebermanfaatan komitmen dalam deklarasi pemimpin negara pada KTT G20 tahun 2020 di Riyadh, Arab Saudi, bagi pembangunan nasional Indonesia. Metode analisis yang diaplikasikan dalam kajian ini terdiri dari analisis pemetaan, analisis teks kualitatif, dan analisis diskursus kritis. Melalui ketiga rangkaian metode analisis tersebut, kajian ini menghasilkan tiga identifikasi utama. Pertama, identifikasi komitmen dalam deklarasi pemimpin G20 Riyadh yang secara substansial memuat agenda pembangunan. Kedua, identifikasi komitmen G20 Arab Saudi yang seiring dan sejalan dengan prioritas pembangunan Indonesia. Ketiga, identifikasi komitmen bidang pembangunan yang memuat urgensi untuk diimplementasikan melalui diplomasi. Ketiga identifikasi tersebut setidaknya mengindikasikan dua hal. Pertama, ‘sinkronisasi’, yaitu penyesuaian antara agenda global dengan kebijakan, baik kebijakan yang telah ditetapkan maupun kebijakan yang dirumuskan. Kedua, adanya penyeimbangan kepentingan nasional dengan nilai-nilai yang dianggap sebagai Kebaikan Bersama Global.
This paper will discuss the paradox of labour rights in Indonesia after the beginning of Reformasi in 1998. Despite workers having been provided with better regulations that uphold all of their essential rights, labour protests remain prevalent with the same demands every year. To explain this paradox, this paper will employ Foucault's concept of biopower to argue, that instead of bringing prosperity to workers, these new regulations have actually disciplined them. New regulations and freedoms have dictated and limited the kinds of actions that workers can undertake, constructing their logic and becoming internalised to the point that some do not realise that they are ironically being constrained by the very laws that were supposed to free them. As such, workers have unknowingly become trapped in a cycle of protest–new government policy–protest ad infinitum. This paper concludes that "Reformasi" has not done much to improve workers' prosperity. The Manpower Law and freedom of association have failed to guarantee the fulfilment of labour rights, instead giving a false sense of freedom. To escape this trap, the labour movement must find a way to fight outside of the logic provided by the Manpower Law by beginning to imagine a system where labour exploitation can no longer exist.
This article examines human security as a discourse which existed from structural inclusion/exclusion of state security, human rights, and human development. Drawing from the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and other thinkers that stressed in developing the concept of biopolitics, the article argues that human security was biopolitically produced through the structure of inclusion/exclusion of state security and human development. The methodology is applied by a poststructuralist philosophical foundation which considers the importance of linguistic ontology and discursive epistemology to understand the existence of the phenomenon. Its examination begins with an analytical exploration of juridical discourse that represents the international authority which amenable to define human security as a form of international security urgency. The article finds out that the inclusion/exclusion of state security and human development contribute to the exercise of power by defining the authority of international interventions to secure human life.
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