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Millions of workers to strike over 2024 minimum wage: Unions
Labor unions have expressed their dissatisfaction with the 2024 minimum wage formula and announced nationwide walkouts involving millions of workers to take place by the end of this year.
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Workers of various labor unions gather on Nov 2, 2020, at Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat in Central Jakarta. (Antara/Aditya Pradana Putra)
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abor unions have expressed their dissatisfaction with the 2024 minimum wage formula and announced nationwide walkouts involving millions of workers to take place by the end of this year.
The Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) and the All-Indonesia United Workers Confederation (KPBI) are among those planning large-scale industrial action. KPBI chairman Ihamsyah said the strikes were to take place between Nov. 30 and Dec. 13.
“We cannot confirm yet [how many workers will take part]; the target is 5 million,” Ilhamsyah told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
Said Iqbal, who chairs both the KSPI and the Labor Party, wrote in a press statement he sent to the Post on Monday that the 5 million workers were employed by more than 100,000 companies and that their action would bring operations at many firms to a standstill.
The Indonesian Workers Union Association (Aspek), meanwhile, has announced a demonstration in front of the Manpower Ministry building in South Jakarta on Wednesday, one week before the deadline for finalizing the 2024 minimum wage.
Some 10,000 workers would join the protest, Aspek president Mirah Sumirat told the Post on Monday, adding that her union would stage more industrial action following that event.
Congress Alliance of Indonesian Labor Unions (KASBI) chairwoman Nining Elitos told the Post on Monday that her union would organize protests in Bekasi and Cianjur and answered that “we are still consolidating” when asked whether walkouts were planned in Jakarta.
