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        "id": 1124889,
        "msgid": "employees-demand-higher-salaries-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-11-15 00:00:00",
        "title": "Employees demand higher salaries",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Employees demand higher salaries Apriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Medan Thousands of employees at state plantation company, PTPN II, here held a protest on Monday, demanding the government increase their wages and conditions after five years with no raises. In a noisy demonstration, the protesters threatened that if their demands are not met within a week, they would strike and occupy the PTPN's management office in Tanjung Morawa, Medan city.",
        "content": "<p>Employees demand higher salaries<\/p>\n<p>Apriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Medan<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of employees at state plantation company, PTPN II, here<br>\nheld a protest on Monday, demanding the government increase their<br>\nwages and conditions after five years with no raises.<\/p>\n<p>In a noisy demonstration, the protesters threatened that if<br>\ntheir demands are not met within a week, they would strike and<br>\noccupy the PTPN's management office in Tanjung Morawa, Medan<br>\ncity.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the company's workers union, Indro Suhito,<br>\nsaid the company had not raised employee wages for the past five<br>\nyears. Many workers still received incomes below the regional<br>\nminimum wage and some had not received other benefits such as<br>\novertime pay, Indro said at the demonstration held at the<br>\ncompound of the North Sumatra provincial council.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have been deprived for long enough.\"<\/p>\n<p>Sugiharto, 44, a company employee, said he had been working<br>\nfor the company for the past 26 years. The father of five<br>\nchildren said his salary of Rp 562,000 a month was still below<br>\nthe North Sumatra minimum wage of Rp 610,000.<\/p>\n<p>\"The amount of salary I receive a month is not enough to cover<br>\nour family expenses. I often owe our neighbors money in order to<br>\nsurvive,\" said Sugiharto, whose name literally means a rich<br>\nperson.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters demanded that the company's directors be<br>\nreplaced. \"The councillors should recommend the central<br>\ngovernment that the government fire the company's directors,\"<br>\nIndro said.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the demand, councillor Sahat Haojahan Situmorang<br>\nsaid the council would summon the company's directors to explain<br>\nthe situation of their workers.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, PTPN's spokesman Jhon Modal Pencawan promised the<br>\ncompany would immediately pay all employee benefits that were<br>\noutstanding.<\/p>",
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