Teachers seek 13th month's salary

BANJARMASIN: Hundreds of elementary school teachers in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, staged a demonstration at the Banjarmasin municipality offices on Tuesday, demanding that the administration pay their 13th month's salary.

The teachers, mostly female, said that the municipality had promised to pay them in January this year, but so far had failed to do so.

They said that this was their second rally as their first one had gone unheeded by the municipality.

Banjarmasin Education Agency director Iskandar claimed that his agency had urged the central government to disburse the 13th month's salary to the teachers.

According to Iskandar, the government had promised to pay the salary in June, and the teachers should be patient.-Antara