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Indonesia is a Southeast Asian Republic comprising over 17 thousand islands and, with a population of over 250 million people it is the world's fourth largest population. Indonesia is a parliamentary democracy and has an elected President. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Malaysia.

The Indonesian archipelago has been an important region for trade over 1,200 years and its history has been influenced by its geographic location and its natural resources. Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonial rule, Indonesia became independent after World War II, since when Indonesia's history has been turbulent, with challenges posed by tipping between democratic rule and one man presidential rule, by natural disasters, by corruption and periods of alternating rapid economic growth and recession.

Indonesia consists of many different distinct ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups, of which Javanese are the largest and the politically dominant ethnic group.

Despite its large population and densely populated urban areas, Indonesia has huge areas of wilderness and the world's second highest level of biodiversity. The country is richly endowed with natural resources.
Indonesia's current Gross Domestic Product (GDP) exceeds is US$ 400 billion giving a per capita GDP is US$1,600.

The services sector is the economy's largest and accounts for almost half (45%) of GDP, followed by industry (40%) and agriculture (15%).

Agriculture employs more people than the other sectors: over 40% of the workforce.

Key industries include petroleum and natural gas, textiles, apparel, and mining. The main and extensive natural resources are crude oil, natural gas, tin, copper, and gold.

Key agricultural products include palm oil, rice, tea, coffee, spices, and rubber.

Indonesia's principal export markets are Japan (25%), the United States (15%), China (10%), and Singapore (9%). The major sources of imports are Japan (18.0%), China (16%), and Singapore (13%). Indonesia's major imports are machinery and capital equipment, chemicals, fuels, and some specific foodstuffs.

In general, Indonesia does not have a particularly high profile in health, safety and security in the agricultural sector. In the industrial sector domestic health and safety standards are high as Indonesia has introduced general standards from the USA and Europe and other leading trading partners (both as export and import partners).

Employment safety and health policies and regulations seek to protect the safety, health and welfare of on-site employees as well as visitors, customers and suppliers, the employer’s neighbours and adjacent communities, as well as general members of the public.

Since 1950, the International Labour Organization (“ILO”) and the World Health Organization (“WHO”) have promoted higher standards in occupational health. The definition reads: "Occupational health should aim at: the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations; the prevention amongst workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions; the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health; the placing and maintenance of the worker in an occupational environment adapted to his physiological and psychological capabilities; and, to summarize, the adaptation of work to man and of each man to his job."

In Indonesia, good occupational safety and health standards have become increasingly the norm to ensure that individual workers should not risk injury or death at work. Poor occupational safety and health performance would result in heavy medical and incapacity costs to the state as well as a loss in tax revenues. Related negative effects on the employing company include legal fees and fines, financial damages, lost production, reduced goodwill in the eyes of the workforce, and a tarnished reputation in the eyes of its customers, suppliers and the broader community.

Occupational safety and health (“OSH”) regulations are enforced by civil law and criminal law; the active moral support of employers and employees is important.

Taking a global perspective, one can look at the leadership role in OSH of the developed economies of Europe and the USA as role model presenters of the aspirational OSH standards which developing countries in the Third World now seek to emulate.

These objectives will be achieved over time as education and investment facilitates improvements in individual workplaces, be they in the industrial agricultural or service sector.

Thus, within the European Union, the various member states enforce the basic legal requirements relating to occupational safety and health, with variations in detail and implementation from country to country. There is also cooperation between employer and worker organisations (e.g. Unions) to ensure good OSH performance benefits employees and employers.

In the USA, the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1970 established both the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The Department of Labor is responsible for the development and implementation of workplace safety and health regulations. By contrast, NIOSH, a part of the Department of Health and Human Services, focuses on research, information, education, and training in occupational safety and health.

In Canada, employees are covered by provincial or federal labour codes depending on the sector in which they work. Employees covered by federal legislation comprise those in mining, transportation and federal employment. All other employees are covered by the health and safety legislation of the province within which they work.

In “parallel” developing economies such as Malaysia, the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (D of OSH) is responsible for the safety, health and welfare of employees in both the public and private sectors.

Translation projects undertaken in Indonesian include web site content, sales and marketing material, documentation requirements for engineering and manufacturing. Total Language Solutions are translation specialists in Indonesian in DTP, print ready and electronic forms of material, integrating text and diagrams and more besides. Total Language Solutions are translation experts in ensuring that text, drawings, colours and layout presentation and localisation meet consumer expectations and norms, without causing offence.

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