Contestations in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Neoliberalism and its Discontents in Indonesia

Widya Permata Yasih, Diatyka

This book focuses on gig work and organising among gig workers in the Indonesian online transport service, situated within the context of widespread precaritisation and digitalisation in today’s world of work. It addresses the challenges experienced by precarious gig workers in Indonesia in articulating their struggles through the discourse of precarity. Such challenges are related to the reproduction of neoliberal-derived entrepreneurial aspirations amidst the historical relative absence of stable work patterns (previously associated with more advanced economies), and the historically rooted marginalisation of broad-based labour movements as a social force. Though showcasing the specific experiences of Indonesian workers, the analysis in this book is supplemented by broad comparative insights.  It offers empirically based analysis for those interested in new forms of collective organisations and politics that emerge among workers under the imperatives of neoliberalism in Indonesia, and by extension Southeast Asia.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2026-01-10

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9789819602803

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-0278-0

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 331