Workers to get meager salary rise

Workers to get meager salary rise

SEMARANG, Central Java: Central Java Governor Mardiyanto has
decided that the provincial government would raise the minimum
wage by 16.32 percent on average by January next year, dashing
workers' hope who had earlier demanded a 30 percent minimum wage
increase.

The implementation of the rise will be different in each
regency or mayoralty in Central Java province, and the 16.32
percent rise would serve only as a benchmark, said chief of
Central Java manpower office, Srimoyo Tamtomo.

The highest minimum wage currently in Central Java is in
Semarang, the provincial capital, of Rp 473,600 a month. The new
rates were decided after the governor received input from
workers, employers and bureaucrats, said Srimoyo. -- JP