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A million newcomers to flood Jakarta after holiday, says NGO
The Indonesian Labor Institute has announced its estimates that approximately a million newcomers, most of them are unskilled workers, will seek work in the capital after the holiday
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he Indonesian Labor Institutehas announced its estimates that approximately a million newcomers, most ofthem are unskilled workers, will seek work in the capital after the holiday.
According to the NGO, these newcomers were the families or friends of the workers who had already worked in Jakarta, who went to their hometowns during the Idul Fitri holiday season.
"They come here simply because of job availability,' Andy William Sinaga of the institute said on Friday as quoted by tribunnews.com.
He then asked the administration to limit the number of these newcomers or else they could become a new problem for the city with around nine million people already.
Earlier Jakarta governor Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo had stated that he wouldn't initiate operation that would screen people based on their ID cards, just like what the administration used to do under governors before him.
'I find it useless (to prevent people coming to Jakarta) as long as the government fails to provide jobs for them in regions besides big cities like Jakarta,' he said.(ian/dic)
