Revising a Barely Adequate Law

Business circles cite the Labor Law as stifling investment, while workers cry that they are being squeezed even further.

April 4, 2006

FOR three months now Sutihan has had nowhere to live. The 42-year-old widow was evicted from her 9-meter-square terrace home because she could no longer pay the rent of Rp120,000 per month. Her remaining household furnishings have been left at a house rented by a friend. Now Im waiting for my television to be sold, she said in tears when speaking with Tempo on Tuesday last week.

But it is not only because of this that since Thursday two weeks ago

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