ABNR Counsellors at Law advises on the full spectrum of employment and labour matters, including termination, regulatory and immigration law issues. The practice is headed by Indra Setiawan, who has extensive experience assisting both domestic and international companies with large scale redundancies and other employment aspects of M&A transactions. Marintan Panjaitan and Ridzky Amin are also key members of the team. Panjaitan frequently represents clients before the Industrial Relations Court, while Amin is skilled at handling collective labour agreements and restructurings. The team caters to a diverse range of clients that operate from a variety of sectors such as retail, telecoms, life sciences, and financial services.

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  • 'They work as a team while working on projects, which makes them responsive to client requests and consultations.'
  • 'The team leader and members are very polite, patient, and willing to respond to our requests and answer our inquiries until we fully understand. They are able to provide advice in both English and Bahasa.'
  • 'Leading employment practice with well-known capability and experiences.'
  • 'Their explanations are easy to understand for non-legal people.'

Key clients

  • PT Telkom Indonesia TBK
  • SAAB
  • Hyundai
  • Merck & Co Inc.
  • ByteDance
  • Tencent
  • Novartis
  • Bayer
  • Cabot
  • Daimler AG
  • Volvo
  • PT Merck Sharpe Dohme Indonesia
  • PT Mineral Industri Indonesia
  • Uniqlo

Work highlights

  • Advised Indonesian state-owned bank PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk on overseas employee secondments.
  • Advising state-owned lender PT BTN on TUPE issues during spin-off and transfer of PT BTN’s shariah banking business to another state-owned bank.
  • Providing training on manpower law to HR professionals at PT Goto Gojek Tokopedia Tbk.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Indra Setiawan

Other key lawyers

Marintan Panjaitan, Ridzky Amin