Pay hike for Maluku employees

AMBON, Maluku (JP): The provincial administration will increase the standard regional daily minimum wage from Rp 3,100 (US$1.4) to Rp 3,800 as of April next year, an officer said.

"We cannot increase the standard minimum wage now because we just enforced the current minimum wage in August from the previous level of Rp 2,700 per day," Sadjid, head of the Maluku chapter of the local office of manpower, told the Antara news agency yesterday.

He said about 15 percent of the 80 companies in the Ambon mayoralty have not implemented the current minimum wage of Rp 3,100 per day. (imn)