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View all search resultsCoordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said on Wednesday that discussions at an international summit in the US had not produced “the targeted resolution” on trade due to disagreement over several issues, including critical minerals, a key topic for Jakarta.
With no signs of an extension of the oil palm concession moratorium, environmentalists are worried that the 2020 Job Creation Law and the implementing regulations that are supposed to supplant the ban might run counter to its original spirit, by giving amnesty to plantations in forest areas.
Some of the key highlights of the bill, a draft of which has been obtained by The Jakarta Post, cover issues related to foreign workers, wages, work hours, redundancy and social security. A one-off extra payment as a “token of appreciation” for workers, which the government calls a “sweetener”, is also introduced in the bill.
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