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        "msgid": "10000-jobless-join-labor-intensive-project-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-09-24 00:00:00",
        "title": "10,000 jobless join labor intensive project",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "10,000 jobless join labor intensive project JAKARTA (JP): A total of 10,120 jobless people with senior high school backgrounds will participate in an eight-month labor intensive project in Jakarta, beginning on Wednesday.",
        "content": "<p>10,000 jobless join labor intensive project<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): A total of 10,120 jobless people with senior<br>\nhigh school backgrounds will participate in an eight-month labor<br>\nintensive project in Jakarta, beginning on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech during the ceremony to mark the start of the<br>\nproject at Cibubur camping ground in East Jakarta, Governor<br>\nSutiyoso said that the participants, most of whom had just lost<br>\ntheir jobs, would be deployed to 114 privately-owned businesses<br>\nin and around the capital with a monthly salary of Rp 300,000 per<br>\nperson.<\/p>\n<p>The project, he said, is sponsored by the central government<br>\nwhich has allocated Rp 60.01 billion from the state budget for<br>\nthe project.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the salary, the participants will also receive extra<br>\nmoney from their employers.<\/p>\n<p>\"We will give, for example, a certain proportion of our<br>\nprofits to them,\" said an entrepreneur, who had decided to open<br>\nthe doors of his businesses to temporarily employ some of the<br>\nunemployed Jakartans.<\/p>\n<p>Badly crippled by the weakening of the rupiah and the mid-May<br>\nriots, unemployment in the capital, home to some 10 million<br>\npeople, had soared from 747,760 people in June last year when the<br>\ncrisis hit to at least 825,000 so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>\"I hope,\" the governor said, \"the participants in this project<br>\ncan also create new jobs for other jobless people in the future,\"<br>\nSutiyoso said.<\/p>\n<p>Among the businesses set to hire participants of the project<br>\nare those involved in agribusiness, fisheries, food and leather,<br>\nhandicraft industries, retailing, restaurants, mini department<br>\nstores, photo copying outlets, barbershops and photographic<br>\nstudios.<\/p>\n<p>Sabar Sianturi, chief of the Jakarta manpower ministry office,<br>\nsaid the participants in this labor intensive project represented<br>\nonly four percent of the total unemployed with a high school<br>\neducation in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\"But we hope the snowball effect of this scheme could further<br>\ncreate jobs for other jobless people,\" Sabar said. (jun)<\/p>",
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