Labor has received a New Year’s present. The Minister of Labor & Transmigration, Jacob Nuwa Wea, who is also a labor figure and a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), has drastically increased the minimum wage of workers by more than 28 percent when compared with wages in 2001. The minimum wage of Jakarta workers has even been increased 38.7 percent, from Rp426,250 per month in 2001 to Rp591,266 in 2002 (see table)