Trade Union Rights Centre

What Trade Union Rights Centre does

Trade Union Rights Centre (TURC) is an Indonesian civil society organization founded in 2004, headquartered in Jakarta Selatan and operating across Java, Sumatra, and Kalimantan Selatan. Its mission is to advance fair and equitable working conditions through research, education, legal advocacy, and public campaigns targeting three primary constituencies: informal workers (with emphasis on women homeworkers), manufacturing workers in garment, textile, and footwear sectors, and palm oil plantation workers. TURC runs three flagship sector programs — INCORE (Informal Workers COVID-19 Response, 2020), TUCP (Trade Union Cooperation Program in palm oil since 2018), and a manufacturing-sector program — alongside the Data Academy worker-driven monitoring methodology delivered in partnership with WageIndicator/Gajimu.com.

TURC's core "products" are programmatic rather than commercial: publications (books, policy briefs, training modules, bulletins) distributed free of charge via turc.or.id, the Data Academy training program that equips union officials to collect factory-level labor data, the Koalisi Buruh Sawit coalition convening palm oil unions, and documentary film content under the "Karya TURC" banner. Its underlying technology is the Gajimu.com worker-driven monitoring platform operated in partnership with WageIndicator, which has gathered data from 194 Indonesian garment factories on wages, occupational safety, COVID-19 impact, and working hours — feeding evidence-based social dialogue and policy submissions.

As a nonprofit labor rights NGO, TURC does not generate commercial revenue; its operating model is grant-funded through institutional donors including Mondiaal FNV (core funder of TUCP), Kurawal Foundation (INCORE), Program MAMPU (Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Gender Equality, supporting Sukabumi homeworkers since 2017), Humanity United, and strategic partners WageIndicator, Cividep India, and FemNet. Distribution is direct-to-partner: consortium-based program delivery with unions such as SBMI, complemented by freely downloadable digital publications and active editorial/news output via website, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Name

Trade Union Rights Centre

Legal name

Trade Union Rights Centre

Website

https://turc.or.id

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Trade Union Rights Centre (TURC) is an Indonesian nonprofit labor rights organization that advocates for fair working conditions, provides labor law education, and supports trade unions serving informal workers, manufacturing workers, and palm oil plantation workers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Labor Rights Advocacy

NAICS

Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations (81393)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Labor, Social Protection & Occupational Safety Standards Cooperation (BPADANAM)

Keywords

• Labor rights advocacy
• Trade union support
• Worker organizing
• Labor law education
• Decent work promotion

Headquarters

HQ city

Sydney

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. NGO Funding and Partnerships: As a labor rights NGO/nonprofit organization, TURC operates through grants and partnerships rather than commercial revenue generation

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Trade Union Rights Centre (TURC) is a non-profit labor research and advocacy organization that delivers research, education, legal support, and public campaigns to improve working conditions in Indonesia's informal, manufacturing (garment/footwear/textile), and palm oil sectors. Its core offerings include three programmatic focus areas (Informal Workers, Manufacturing, Palm Oil), a publications line of books/policy briefs/modules/bulletins, the Data Academy worker-driven monitoring program, the Palm Oil Labor Coalition, and documentary films — all aimed at supporting trade unions and advocating for fair labor laws.

Product overview

Trade Union Rights Centre (TURC) is a labor research center and advocacy organization, not a traditional technology product company. TURC operates as a unified research and advocacy center with multiple interconnected programs and publications. The core offerings include publications (books, policy briefs, modules, bulletins) addressing labor conditions in Indonesia's informal, manufacturing (garment/footwear), and palm oil sectors; programmatic interventions organized into three focus areas (Informal Workers, Manufacturing, Palm Oil); the Data Academy training program for trade union data collection; the Palm Oil Labor Coalition; documentary films on labor issues; and the Gajimu.com worker monitoring platform developed in partnership with WageIndicator. All offerings support TURC's mission to achieve fair and just working conditions through research, education, legal advocacy, and public campaigns.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Lembur: A publication by TURC covering labor issues
• Data Academy

Products and services

• TURC Publications

Quantifiable outcome

• Improvement in homeworkers' protection in working conditions, health, access to economic resilience and public services during COVID-19 pandemic
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• WageIndicator/Gajimu.comcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the Data Academy program, combining worker-driven monitoring with data-driven approach to social dialogue in Indonesian garment factories.
• Cividep IndiaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational partner organization working on labor rights issues with logo displayed on TURC website.
• FemNetminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGender-focused partner organization with logo displayed on TURC website supporting women's labor rights.
• Wage IndicatorminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational wage data organization partnering with TURC on data-driven labor advocacy.
• Serikat Buruh Migran Indonesia (SBMI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerConsortium partner for INCORE program focusing on informal and migrant workers during COVID-19 pandemic.
• Kabupaten KotabaruminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal government partner with logo displayed on TURC website for palm oil program implementation.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Solidarity Center (AFL-CIO): U.S. labor-affiliated NGO supporting independent trade unions globally; comparable in mission to strengthen worker rights in emerging economies, including Indonesia.
• Fair Labor Association: Multi-stakeholder initiative conducting labor audits across global apparel and agriculture supply chains; comparable on workplace conditions monitoring but with broader industry remit than TURC.
• Mondiaal FNV: Dutch trade union international solidarity arm funding labor rights programs in Indonesia; TURC's primary palm oil program funder and a comparable advocacy actor in the global labor movement.

Direct peers

• Cividep India: India-based labor rights research and advocacy organization focused on garment and manufacturing workers; explicit TURC international partner with overlapping worker-driven monitoring methodology.
• Workers' Rights Consortium: Independent factory-monitoring organization for apparel and footwear supply chains; comparable on worker-driven data collection and brand accountability in global garment production.
• Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC): Hong Kong-based independent labor research center supporting Asian garment and electronics workers; comparable as a research-driven NGO combining supply-chain investigations with worker organizing.
• Better Work: ILO/IFC partnership that monitors working conditions in garment factories across Asia; highly comparable to TURC's Data Academy worker-driven monitoring approach in Indonesian garment supply chains.

Regional players

• Indonesia for Workers (Yayasan Tunas Indonesia Baru / labor-focused NGOs): Cluster of Indonesian labor rights NGOs operating in manufacturing and palm oil sectors; comparable regional actors advocating for workers in the same industries TURC serves.
• Kurawal Foundation: Indonesian funder supporting informal worker rights and migrant worker programs; TURC's INCORE program partner, comparable on Indonesia-specific labor rights philanthropy.

Emerging players

• WageIndicator: Global wage data organization co-developing the Gajimu.com worker monitoring platform with TURC; comparable on data-driven labor market transparency.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/turc_id
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC5bUEbziDth1TK9iXGZA3zA/featured
• Facebookfacebook.com/turcindonesia
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/trade-union-rights-centre
• Instagraminstagram.com/turc_id

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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