Workers demand higher pay

Workers demand higher pay

BANDUNG: Some 500 workers in the Cimahi industrial zone held a
protest on Thursday in front the Cimahi regency council,
demanding that the administration increase the local minimum
wage.

Edi Suherdi, a workers' leader, said the minimum wage in the
regency was no longer enough to cover workers' day-to-day
expenses as the prices of basic necessities had risen due to the
fuel price hikes.

Currently, the local minimum wage is Rp 601,000 a month, while
the minimum wage needed was Rp 819,000 said Edi.

The workers demanded that the regency council exert pressure
on the administration to force it to raise the minimum wage. --
JP