Informal Workers COVID-19 Response (INCORE) is a program that is designed and implemented by the consortium Trade Union Rights Centre (TURC) – Serikat Buruh Migran Indonesia (SBMI), funded by Kurawal Foundation which focuses on the intervention for vulnerable informal workers impacted by pandemic COVID-19.
TURC focuses on the implementation specifically for women homeworkers in 10 regions in Java and Sumatra. This program has achieved the improvement of homeworkers’ protection in working conditions, health, access to economic resilience and public services during the crisis in the pandemic COVID-19. This program has successfully submitted a petition of Judicial Review to the Constitutional Court (Law No. 13/2003 concerning Manpower), produced research and policy recommendation for Ministry of The National Development Planning Agency, Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Manpower, Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises.
Furthermore, this program also succeeded in capacity improvements in developing workers’ networks which includes cross-sector organizing efforts and initiatives through the concept of community-based entrepreneurship. Finally, home-based workers are able to utilize digital devices in their organizing effort in their organization/ trade unions. They are also able to develop cooperation (community-based entrepreneurship) that cuts off the illegal debt cycles in the middle of a crisis. Currently, our advocacy and organizing effort after the petition result released are still being continued as an organizational initiative.