Social security fund should be repaid to the workers: Expert<\/p>\n
YOGYAKARTA (JP): The Rp 6 trillion (about US$600 million)
\nstate social security fund should be repaid to the workers who
\ncontributed to it to help alleviate their hardship in this time
\nof crisis, an expert has proposed.<\/p>\n
Tadjuddin Noer Effendi, an advisor to the minister of
\nmanpower, said Wednesday that as millions of workers had already
\nlost and more would lose their jobs, the cash would mean a lot to
\nthem.<\/p>\n
The labor-intensive programs that the government has initiated
\nbenefit mostly blue color workers; middle and upper level
\nemployees who lose their jobs find it more difficult to obtain
\nnew employment, he said.<\/p>\n
Tadjuddin, who is a senior researcher at Gadjah Mada
\nUniversity's Population Studies Center, said the rightful owners
\nof the fund that the government manages as working capital were
\nthose who contributed to it.<\/p>\n
\"Repaying the money would be better than using it to pay House
\nof Representatives members deliberating labor laws (as recently
\nhappened),\" he said.<\/p>\n
Tadjuddin hailed the labor-intensive schemes the government
\nhas sponsored to alleviate poverty in the wake of the prolonged
\neconomic crisis.<\/p>\n
Such projects, he said, were necessary to help ease social
\ntension caused by soaring prices and mounting unemployment.<\/p>\n
\"It is a good short-term solution for blue-collar workers,
\nsuch as construction laborers. The projects will be needed until
\neconomic growth reaches about 5 percent.\"<\/p>\n
Tadjuddin estimated the number of unemployed at more than 10
\nmillion. (44)<\/p>",
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