PHRI pledges to welcome govt's plan on hotel service charges<\/p>\n
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PHRI pledges to welcome govt's plan on hotel service charges<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The city's association of hotels and restaurants
\nwill accept any regulation launched by the city administration
\naimed at standardizing the distribution of service charges.<\/p>\n
The charges equal 10 percent of services provided by hotels or
\nrestaurants and must be distributed to the workers.<\/p>\n
\"We do not have to avoid uniformity in distributing the
\ncharges as long as it does not spoil our services to guests,\"
\nsaid Arman Rahman Iskandar, the chairman of the Jakarta Branch of
\nthe Association of Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants (PHRI-DKI)
\nas quoted Soegijo, head of the City Council's Commission E on
\ntourism.<\/p>\n
Arman was responding to the commission's plan to formulate a
\ncity law which would regulate how service charges must be
\ndivided, Soegijo told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Soegijo said the plan is necessary because the present
\nregulation does not address how the charges should be
\ndistributed.<\/p>\n
The present regulation, based on a ministerial decree issued
\nin 1956, only states the allowable amount of service charges,
\nwhich is 10 percent at most.<\/p>\n
Some hotels use service charges to pay Idul Fitri bonuses,
\nwhile others use the money as security funds, Soegijo said.<\/p>\n
\"This is definitely an abuse,\" Soegijo said but declined to
\nmention the hotels involved.<\/p>\n
Soegijo also said some hotels distribute the charges equally
\namong all workers while others distribute them according to the
\nworkers' rank.<\/p>\n
Hence, a new city law may be needed to eliminate those
\ndifferences, Soegijo said.<\/p>\n
Slamet Riyadi, a staff member of the Sabang Hotel in Central
\nJakarta, told the Post his company distributes service charges
\nequally to all its workers after deducting 5 percent from its
\ntotal to cover losses incurred from broken or lost dishes,
\nashtrays, etc.<\/p>\n
Slamet said service charges at his hotel are printed on the
\nbill along with the Development Tax One (PB I) of 10 percent
\nwhich is payable to the city administration.<\/p>\n
\"Guests often complain to us because they have to pay 20
\npercent more than the actual price of the service,\" Slamet said.
\n(arf)<\/p>",
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