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Survey on protection of workers against unemployment in time of crisis: A case study on COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia

Background

Since February 2020, the Corona Virus Diseases of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has hit Indonesia, which forced some companies to lay off or terminate their workers due to declining revenues. The International Labour Organization (ILO) survey aims to analyse the effectiveness of existing schemes to protect workers against unemployment and income security during the COVID-19 crisis. Specifically, this survey tries to identify the situation of workers with employment relationship by estimating the number of partially and fully unemployed workers, as well as the entitlement of severance pay and wages to the laid off and unemployed workers.

How to join the survey

ILO Jakarta held a meeting with trade union representatives to clarify the objectives of survey. The trade unions who were willing to participate in the study submitted a list of their members. The ILO randomly select respondents among the listed trade union members. Our survey team contacts you through WhatsApp if you are selected to participate in the survey in this process.

Disclaimer

We guarantee that this survey is anonymous, all personal information is confidential, and the survey results will not be used other than for the purpose of this study only.

Contact

Panjaitan Christianus, National Project Officer on Social Protection, ILO Jakarta (panjaitan@ilo.org)

Qisha Quarina, Survey Team Leader, Universitas Indonesia (qisha.quarina@gmail.com)

Fandy Rahardi, Survey Team Member (fandyrahardi@gmail.com)

Dhiya Ulhaq, Survey Team Member (onlybaon@gmail.com)

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