Jamsostek pays Singaporean Rp 4b

JAKARTA: State-owned social security provider PT Jamsostek has paid a total of Rp 3.912 billion (US$433,333) in compensation to the family of a Singaporean expatriate, Kwok Chee Fun Adrian, a worker at publicly listed ceramic factory PT Keramika Indonesia Assosiasi who was killed in an work related accident in April.

The compensation, the largest PT Jamsostek has ever paid to a participating employee. comprised Rp 3.6 billion in occupational accident benefits and Rp 295 million in pension funds. Manpower and Transmigration Minister Jacob Nuwa Wea handed the compensation to the victim's wife here on Friday.

Jamsostek president Achmad Djunaidi said Kwok's wife received high compensation from the occupational accident program because his company had provided an accurate report on his gross monthly salary, which reached Rp 86 million.

Kwok, 46, died when he was checking the factory's troubled engines in Cileungsi, Bogor, on April 6, 2004.

Nuwa Wea issued Ministerial Decree No. 67/2004 recently on social security programs for foreign workers, which stipulates that the insurance scheme is mandatory for around 18,700 expatriates in Indonesia. -- JP