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Text your say: May Day commemorations
The voice of labor: Workers chant slogans during one of the demonstrations to commemorate May Day on May 1
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span class="inline inline-center">The voice of labor: Workers chant slogans during one of the demonstrations to commemorate May Day on May 1. About 100,000 workers took to the streets of Jakarta to demand better wages and the elimination of the labor outsourcing system. JP/Jerry Adiguna
Your comments on the commemoration of May Day, which has become a regular occasion for thousands of workers to take to the streets to voice their aspirations, mainly for higher wages and the elimination of the outsourcing system:
What has the government done? I'm a worker and get less than the standard wage, working for a government office in the outsourcing system.
Fajar Putuadi
The government has done nothing. All the prices of our basic daily needs are rising but the increases in our wages are so slow.
Our earnings cannot even cover the daily needs of our families.
Gusti Kade Hariawan
No of course not. It is because the interests of employers are always the opposite of the interests of the employees.
Taco MD Vries
Happy May Day! I hope Indonesian workers will unite so that they can fight to better their welfare.
Gunawan Yanuarto
Bantul, Yogyakarta
On the May Day commemoration the government managed to protect the interests of employers because they gave their best to support President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo during the election campaign.
Meanwhile, the interests of employees will come later.
Edward N.
Jakarta
The fact that everyone is struggling for higher salaries, job security, employment and steady income is due to the looming expensive food prices, including the cost of children's schooling.
Yet, many simple but principle activities that lead to a better life are not seen nor realized because they are not known or popularized by our leaders.
When all of our daily garbage, trash and even human waste is collected for it to be fermented to become organic fertilizer and methane gas we shall have cheaper food as fertilizer could be freely distributed and the methane gas will be a ready fuel for electricity generators to supply power for free to light homes at nights for the kids to study their lessons in the evenings.
With free tuition fees we help our children become good taxpayers in the future.
Instead of cigarettes, please provide the children with free milk daily to become the future staunch annual taxpayers.
With all this meager yet determined government support, would parents as workers worry much about salaries?
Moeljono Adikoesoemo
Jakarta
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