Unemployed get sanitation jobs

Unemployed get sanitation jobs

In a bid to help the government tackle the unemployment
problem, the Central Jakarta Manpower Office are employing at
least 375 unemployed people, many of them primary and junior high
school dropouts, as sanitation workers.

Endy Sukardi, head of the office, was quoted by Pelita as
saying yesterday that the newly hired sanitation workers have
been deployed to clean a 2,000 -meter long drainage system in
five subdistricts in the mayoralty.

The daily wage of the workers is set between Rp 2,500
(US$1.15) and Rp 3,000. (has)