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        "id": 1242157,
        "msgid": "maintaining-livelihood-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-03-09 00:00:00",
        "title": "Maintaining livelihood",
        "author": null,
        "source": "",
        "tags": null,
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        "summary": "Maintaining livelihood What happens if there is no harmony in the relationship between a company and its employees. \"The economic life of the nation will be in confusion,\" President Megawati Soekarnoputri said before thousands of workers and representatives from 30 provincial chapters of the Indonesian Labor Union (SPSI) recently. Demonstrations by employees demanding raises were rare during the New Order era because of the low bargaining position of workers. They were practically unprotected.",
        "content": "<p>Maintaining livelihood<\/p>\n<p>What happens if there is no harmony in the relationship<br>\nbetween a company and its employees.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The economic life of the nation will be in confusion,&quot;<br>\nPresident Megawati Soekarnoputri said before thousands of workers<br>\nand representatives from 30 provincial chapters of the Indonesian<br>\nLabor Union (SPSI) recently.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrations by employees demanding raises were rare during<br>\nthe New Order era because of the low bargaining position of<br>\nworkers. They were practically unprotected. But in the current<br>\nreform era, labor organizations in Indonesia have played an<br>\nincreasingly crucial role in providing protection to workers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Jacob<br>\nNuwa Wea, there are at least 60 labor organizations in Indonesia<br>\ntoday. The SPSI, chaired by Jacob, is the biggest labor<br>\norganization in Indonesia at present. This organization now has<br>\n5.1 million members from 12,800 companies in the country.<\/p>\n<p>These labor organizations generally have the same goal, namely<br>\nstruggling for justice and improving the fate and welfare of<br>\ntheir members. But the increased bargaining position of workers<br>\nhas frightened businesspeople and would-be investors.<\/p>\n<p>How can businesspeople pay their debts when they have to face<br>\ndemonstrations by their workers? Certainly, some businesspeople<br>\nare very stingy about paying their employees.<\/p>\n<p>In responding to the President&apos;s remarks, labor organizations<br>\nand labor advocacy agencies should contribute to the maintenance<br>\nof a harmonious relationship between employees and employers by<br>\nenhancing the professionalism of workers, improving the<br>\nnegotiating skills of workers and widening their perspective.<\/p>\n<p>These steps are required to avoid the impression that the<br>\nestablishment of labor organizations has been engineered by<br>\ncertain interest groups to be used as political vehicles or as a<br>\nmeans of enriching themselves.<\/p>\n<p>-- Bisnis Indonesia, Jakarta<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/maintaining-livelihood-1447893297",
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