Insufficient for Food and Rice
Following days of demonstrations, the Jakarta provincial government has set new wage standards. Many employers are requesting deferments.
November 5, 2013
Seven of the chairs in a meeting of the Wages Council at the Jakarta City Hall were left vacant. Although the meeting was twice adjourned, the seven labor representatives who were supposed to be sitting in them never arrived. In the end, the head of the Manpower Agency, Priyono, decided that the tripartite meeting involving the government, employers, and workers, would proceed despite the absence of one of the parties. "Based on the President's ins
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