JW MARRIOTT JAKARTA'S INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS POLICIES: CONSISTENCIES UNDER INDONESIAN INDUSTRIAL LABOR POLICIES AND THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION

Abstract

In the field of International Relations as a socio-politic science of study, there also be found the termination of Industrial Relations. The Industrial Relations describe the symbiosis relationship upon employment practices among the actors; employer and employee. The bridge amongst fluid coincides with those actor developments, in a high dependency to the society as the influential stakeholder. Employee as one of the actor in the Industrial Relations could define as associate, workforce, worker, etc nevertheless globally communicated as labour. Labour issue is not taboo anymore in Indonesia. In the past few years, the society in Indonesia brought the labour issue up to the government either by protest or demonstration because of their disenchantment. In the matter of the disenchantment, the labour issue and its problem in Indonesia not regardless with the policies which created by the government. The second actor in the employment practices is employer which in Industrial Relations termination could be concluded as Multinational Corporation. In regards in the research the case study being used is JW Marriott Jakarta as an MNC which operated in Indonesia. In which JW Marriott Jakarta known as one of the leading hospitality company in Indonesia and has approximately 600 associates who work in the property. In this regards, the Indonesia's policies on the field of labour issue shall be examined on how it is implemented in JW Marriott Jakarta employment practices. The relevancy being questioned is whether the employment practices of JW Marriott Jakarta conducted based on the Indonesia's labour policies as the host country or it somehow refers to the home country and International Labour Law.