Salaries and price hikes

Salaries and price hikes

From Media Indonesia

The government's decision to raise civil servants' salaries by 10 percent has received mixed reactions for the following reasons: * While the salary increase has yet to be implemented, the prices of daily commodities have already gone up by 10 percent. This means that the salary rise, when implemented, will not mean much. * Korpri, the organization of civil servants, would like the salaries of civil servants to be raised twice as much, something next to impossible because of the government's shortage of financial reserves.

It would be a good idea for the government to stabilize the prices of daily commodities when it decides to raise the salaries of civil servants. Otherwise, the increase will have little meaning.

FX DANDUNG INDRATNO

Bekasi, West Java