Nurses stage protest

Nurses stage protest

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

More than 100 nurses of Cikini private hospital held
a demonstration on Friday, demanding the hospital management
increase their salaries and take legal action against a
corruption case in the hospital.

The demonstration, which proceeded for about two hours in
front of the hospital, was held peacefully and did not disrupt
hospital services or traffic into and out of the hospital.

The demonstrators, who were mostly women, asked the hospital
management to increase nurses' salaries, health allowance and
transportation allowance. They also asked the management to
investigate the suspected misappropriation of Rp 2.5 billion of
the employees' pension fund.

But Herika, the head of the hospital's human resources
department, told The Jakarta Post by phone that not all the
demonstrators were Cikini hospital nurses.

"Most of them are from the Indonesian Nurses Union (Serpindo).
They asked the nurses here to join the demonstration," she said.

She added that the salaries of Cikini hospital nurses were
actually quite good, but the management would, nevertheless, pay
attention to their demands. "But we can't do it right away, as we
have to discuss it first."