Nurses unpaid for nine months

Nurses unpaid for nine months

CIREBON, West Java: Dozens of nurses working in community
health centers who have not been paid for the past nine months
lodged a complaint with the West Java administration to demand
their pay.

They flocked on Thursday to the Cirebon health office, West
Java, to demand that it help them to obtain their payment.

The protesters told The Jakarta Post on Friday they felt were
treated "unjustly" by the West Java administration as they have
not been paid for nine months.

The protesting nurses mostly work for community health centers
(Puskesmas) across Cirebon regency.

Sisca Lilyana Mulyadi, head of the Puskesmas in Sunyaragi
village, Kesambi subdistrict, said there were at least 55 nurses
employed in the city.

At least 43 of the nurses work in 20 health community centers,
and 12 others in the Gunung Jati General Hospital in Cirebon, she
added.

Based on a contract, the nurses are supposed to be paid Rp
300,000 each month.

"But since they started work in January, they have not
received their salary," Sisca said.

It was not clear why the provincial government had not paid
the salaries of the nurses. --JP