Bogor Regency Minimum Wage In 2022 Remains IDR 4.2 Million, Regent Ade Yasin: Wage Council Agreement

Bogor Regent Ade Yasin in Cibinong, Bogor Regency, West Java. (AMONG)

BOGOR - Bogor Regent Ade Yasin said the Bogor Regency Wage Council, West Java, had agreed that the Regency Minimum Wage (UMK) figure in 2022 would not increase.

"The Wage Council, which consists of trade unions and employers' organizations, has agreed that there will be no increase (UMK)," he said in Cibinong, as reported by Antara, Wednesday, November 24.

According to him, the UMK figure in his area is now quite high, namely Rp. 4.2 million above the UMK in the Bogor City area of Rp. 4.1 million. Last year, the minimum wage in the Bogor City area did not increase.

"Indeed, initially there was a request for an increase in the UMK by 3.7 percent," said Ade Yasin.

However, the Bogor Regency Government (Pemkab) has not held a plenary meeting to discuss the increase in the UMK in 2022, even though it should have been set for November 25, 2021, as stated in Government Regulation (PP) Number 16 as a derivative of the Job Creation Law Number 11 of 2020.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chairperson of the Bogor Regency Indonesian Employers' Association (Apindo), Nanda Iskandar, said that the majority of entrepreneurs were serious about raising wages because the current economic condition had not fully recovered from the pandemic.

"Furthermore, we must implement PP No. 36 of 2021 consistently and impartially. Because saving the industry also saves workers and their families," explained Iskandar.

He mentioned that the industrial sector in Bogor Regency was very disturbed by the restrictions on community activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The reason is, during 2020, the marketing of domestic and export products has decreased by around 50-70 percent.

Then, 80 percent of companies recorded a decline in revenue, so that it affected the company's operations. As a result, as many as 10,271 workers were forced to be laid off and 1,966 other workers were laid off.

Iskandar explained, Apindo hopes for other rescue steps from the Bogor Regency Government, such as cutting many bureaucratic flows to facilitate investment, delaying taxes or regional levies.