Labour non-governmental organisations' (NGOs) role in the reconstruction of Indonesia's organised labour movement has been widely acknowledged. They are not, however, generally recognised as a legitimate part of that movement. This paper uses the Indonesian case to demonstrate how the existing scholarly literature has failed to consider labour NGOs as a form of labour organisation in their own right because they do not fit within practitioners' and scholars' definitions of what is, and is not, a legitimate industrial relations actor.
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