Four variants on minimum wage set

BEKASI: Unlike his Jakarta counterpart, West Java Governor Danny Setiawan has decided to regulate minimum wages for workers in Bekasi, Jakarta's neighboring city, according to business sectors.

While Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso has set the minimum wage for workers in 2006 at Rp 819,100 for all business sectors here, Dany has grouped business sectors into four categories with different minimum wages.

The first category includes automotive, chemical, rubber, paper, pharmaceuticals and metal and electronics businesses, with a minimum salary of Rp 824,026.

The second group -- musical instruments, food, beverages, metal by-products, autoparts, communications, electronics components, construction -- carries a salary of Rp 822,073.

The third group -- timber, garments, banking, insurance, hotel industry, export/import trading, textiles, shoes -- has a minimum wage of Rp 820,121.

The last category, which includes small- and medium- scale enterprises, has a minimum wage of Rp 781,067. --JP