Practising being precarious workers
State, policy and the labour regime in Indonesian academic internships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21189691 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anindya Dessi Wulansari (0000-0001-9612-1074, Universitas Tidar, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Organisation Labour & Globalisation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-641X • E-ISSN: 1745-6428 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.19.3.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W4417347900 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
The working conditions of academic interns are not widely discussed in the literature on precarious working relations, even though internship programmes – in the case of Indonesia, formally regulated by the government as part of the higher education (HE) curriculum – lack protections and decent work standards. With the largest number of informal workers in Southeast Asia, its HE policy implies that the Indonesian state has contributed to interns’ precarious conditions in the context of a labour market with a relatively high surplus population. Drawing on a survey regarding indicators of decent internship work with 215 student interns in Indonesia from HE and senior high schools, as well as in-depth interviews with five student interns, this article attempts to show that the precarity in labour relations in the current labour regime is the result of a combination of state intervention, labour division and social reproduction. Participants thus perform precarious work during their internships, at the same time as practising it for the future
Indonesian · Internship · Precarious work · Precarity · Employment and Welfare Studies · Higher Education and Employability · Labor Movements and Unions
Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
Manufacturing Consent
Indonesia's Cheap Wages Regime
From Apprenticeship to Internship
Contours of historical-materialist policy analysis
Authoritarian Populism in Indonesia
Law and the Realisation of Human Rights
Comparing Neo-liberal Projects and Inequality in Education
Neoliberalism, higher education and the knowledge economy
Becoming employable students and ‘ideal’ creative workers
Exploitation or opportunity? Student perceptions of internships in enhancing employability skills
Internships and the graduate labour market
Protective repression, international pressure, and institutional design
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Understanding the mechanisms of neoliberal control
Education, opportunity and the prospects for social mobility
Still the "Opium of the Masses"? Religion and Labour Struggles in Indonesia
Reproducing Academic Insularity in a Time of Neo-liberal Markets
Labour and democracy? Reflections on the Indonesian impasse
Higher Education in Indonesia
Creating Surplus Labour
Neo-Taylorism at Work
Beyond "the State" and Failed Schemes
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |