TEMPO.CO, Bandung - Hundreds of workers under the Federation of Machinery, Electronics and Metal Labor Union and the Indonesian Labor Union for Bandung staged a protest rally to the state-owned electricity company (PLN) office of West Java and Banten.
The workers demanded clarification from the PLN on the increased electricity base price, which they deemed to be putting contract workers at risk.
“The very first victims of the electricity-tariff increase would be contract workers. Salaries will be even lower, production cost will rise, and they will end up being dismissed,” the rally’s coordinator, Ajat Sudrajat, said in front of the workers on Thursday, May 01, 2014.
The workers also urged the government to scrap the outsourcing system and revise their minimum wage. They workers said the outsourcing system had subjected them to exploitation.
The workers also demanded the government improve the implementation of the Social Security Provider’s (BPJS) service, claiming that the government was not ready yet to run the program.
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