Deputy Minister of Industry (Wamenperin) Faisol Riza said it took time to see the potential for termination of employment (PHK), following high investment interest in Indonesia.
The Deputy Minister of Industry said that currently one of the strategic sectors such as mining has a large potential for employment.
"I don't know the basic estimate or potential for layoffs, yes. So if you look slowly in the last few weeks, investment interest in Indonesia and then the movement of several sectors is faster, including one of them in the mining sector," explained Faisol at the Office of the Ministry of Industry. RI Jakarta, quoted by Antara, Friday, May 23.
Previously, the Chairman of the BPJS Employment Council Muhammad Zuhri in a Hearing Meeting (RDP) with Commission IX of the DPR on Tuesday, May 20, issued a prediction that the layoff figure could reach 280 thousand people this year.
He explained that based on data from the Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker), there were 77,960 layoff victims throughout 2024.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Manpower recorded that the number of layoffs had reached 26,455 cases as of Tuesday, May 20.
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Responding to this, Deputy Minister of Industry Faisol admitted that he was still not sure about BPJS Ketenagakerjaan's prediction.
"I'm not very sure about that projection. But we'll see in the future," said Faisol.
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