Jakarta tourism workers plan strike
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The Jakarta Post said the Independent Workers Union Federation, which represents up to 14,000 workers in the tourism sector, has threatened to go on strike on if the city administration refuses to increase the minimum wage by 10 percent next year.
Two weeks ago the government announced the minimum wage would be increased by 8 percent next year from Rp 900,560 (approximately US$100) to Rp 972,604.
The federation’s secretary Dewi Fitriana told the newspaper that while tourism sector employees generated a large amount of money for their employers, their wages generally remained low.
“The average hotel occupancy rate in the city reached 56 percent this year,” she was quoted saying, adding that hotels generally broke even with an occupancy rate of between 30 and 35 percent.
Official statistics show the tourism sector contributed Rp 1.07 trillion to the economy, highest.
Based on these figures, the federation has asked the government to name the tourism sector as a mainstay sector, in which workers are entitled to wages 10 percent higher than the general minimum wage.
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