Abstract
Until relatively recently, Indonesia has been one of the least known countries despite having the
fourth largest population in the world. Nevertheless, there has been a relatively rich lode of scholarship
in Indonesia in the social sciences such as economics, politics, and anthropology. Much less has been
written on business and management in Indonesia. Writing on human resource management (HRM) has
been rare and limited mainly to labor economics and macrolevel human resource development.
However, interest in Indonesia has grown in the wake of major political and economic crises it has
suffered since the onset of the Asian crisis in mid-1997. There is also an increasing awareness that HRM
will be an important factor in shaping the future of the country. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to
describe HRM in Indonesia with particular focus on the environmental context.
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