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Riau Islands to increase minimum wage by 22 percent
The Riau Islands administration has announced that Rp 1
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The Riau Islands administration has announced that Rp 1.665 million (US$150) will be the 2014 provincial minimum wage, a 22 percent increase from this year's minimum wage of Rp 1.365 million. The wage hike has already been signed off on by Governor Muhammad Sani.
'We have been through four meetings, road surveys on living-standard components [KHL] and consultations with the Regional Salary Council to wind up with this result,' Riau Islands' workforce agency head Tagor Napitupulu said on Friday.
The decision was issued amid a day of nationwide strikes, with workers demanding the government increase their salaries by at least 50 percent and revoke an outsourcing policy.(dic)
