PASIFIKASI BURUH DALAM HUBUNGAN INDUSTRIAL DI KAWASAN PT. IMIP: ANALISIS POLITIK KETENAGAKERJAAN PASCA UNDANG-UNDANG CIPTA KERJA

Florencia Wangsa; Irwansyah Irwansyah

doi:10.29103/jspm.v7i2.29148

Authors

Florencia Wangsa Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
Irwansyah Irwansyah Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29103/jspm.v7i2.29148

Keywords:

Industrial Relations, Labor Pacification, Nickel Downstreaming, Occupational Safety and Health, PT. IMIP

Abstract

PT IMIP is one of the Indonesian Government’s flagship nickel industrial estates, widely presented by the government as a strategic industrial estate that contributes significantly to the national economy. Despite its economic significance, the industrial estate continues to face serious labor concerns, especially regarding workplace safety and the recurring occurrence of fatal accidents. This study explains how labor pacification operates within industrial relations in PT IMIP under the Omnibus Law on Job Creation regime. Using Richard Hyman’s theory of state intervention, pacification refers to a mechanism through which the state manages, contains, or suppresses labor conflict in order to preserve industrial and socio-political stability. The findings show that workers' endurance of life-threatening working conditions reflects not individual consent, but structural constraints arising from limited employment opportunities and economic pressure. Labor pacification in this context does not primarily occur through direct repression, but through structural mechanisms that lead workers to accept and tolerate precarious and unsafe working conditions.

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