Depok workers rally over wage

Depok workers rally over wage

DEPOK: Some 500 laborers from Depok held a protest in front of
the Depok municipality building on Tuesday demanding raises in
their salaries.

Tempo Interaktif reported that the workers, under the Depok
Laborer Alliance (APBD), demanded that the administration set the
city's minimum wage equal to previously calculated decent living
needs, or at Rp 824,532 a month for the year 2006.

"We demand this be formalized in a mayoral decree," APBD
chairman Iswan Abdullah said.

He added that they wanted a meeting with key municipality
officials.

One of the workers, Supratman, 26, said that he was forced to
work over time to supplement his Rp 681,000 (about US$68.1)
salary. --JP