Village employees demand promotion

Village employees demand promotion

JAKARTA: Thousands of secretariat employees in villages across
Java and Bali went to the House of Representatives on Wednesday,
demanding they become officially recognized as civil servants.

The employees said they had been working for the state for
years without a clear job status.

"We want a promotion regardless of our educational background,
age or work period," a spokesman for the group, Sutoto, told a
meeting with members of the House's Commission II on regional
autonomy.

The government said on Tuesday that all civil servants would
start receiving a salary increase beginning next year, with the
lowest ranked employees getting Rp 1 million (US$100) a month. --
JP