Greater Consideration Required

The government did not take into consideration several workers’ groups who will be hardest hit by the upcoming fuel price increases.

Tempo

March 1, 2005

THE government’s plan to increase fuel prices will really hit Julaiha hard. This worker at a bird’s nest factory in the Kertaja Indah area of Surabaya, East Java, can already imagine how this will make her life even more difficult than ever before. Transportation costs, which up to now eat up half her wages, will very soon use up all her reserves. With wages of Rp364,000 per month, Julaiha, 30, can really only just manage to make ends

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