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        "id": 1159719,
        "msgid": "workers-demand-100-percent-rise-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-10-13 00:00:00",
        "title": "Workers demand 100 percent rise",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Workers demand 100 percent rise BANDUNG: Hundreds of workers from the West Java Nusantara Workers Union staged a noisy protest at Bandung's City Hall and provincial council building on Wednesday, demanding a 100 percent rise in minimum wages. The protesters said the current minimum wage was no longer enough to cope with workers' escalating living and transportation costs.",
        "content": "<p>Workers demand 100 percent rise<\/p>\n<p>BANDUNG: Hundreds of workers from the West Java Nusantara<br>\nWorkers Union staged a noisy protest at Bandung's City Hall and<br>\nprovincial council building on Wednesday, demanding a 100 percent<br>\nrise in  minimum wages.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters said the current minimum wage was no longer<br>\nenough to cope with workers' escalating living and transportation<br>\ncosts.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Waras Wasisto said that based on a recent survey of<br>\nBandung workers' living costs, each worker needed at least Rp<br>\n642,000 (US$64.2) a month to survive.<\/p>\n<p>\"Minimum wages in West Java range from Rp 601,000 to Rp<br>\n635,000. How can we keep on working when we still have to borrow<br>\nmoney to buy our basic needs,\" Waras said. Many workers were<br>\ngetting paid significantly less than the standard minimum wage,<br>\nhe said.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters called on Governor Danny Setiawan to<br>\nimmediately set a new minimum wage. -- JP<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/workers-demand-100-percent-rise-1447893297",
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