Demo At City Hall, Workers Hope Heru Budi Willing To Raise The 2024 UMP 15 Percent

Labor demonstrations at DKI Jakarta City Hall/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

A group of workers held a demonstration in front of the DKI Jakarta City Hall ahead of the determination of the 2024 DKI Jakarta provincial minimum wage (UMP) today.

Although the chances are slim, the workers hope that the Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono will be willing to determine the amount of the 2024 UMP increase according to their wishes, which is 15 percent to around Rp5.6 million.

"About 15 percent, that's our hope from the workers. Please later, Governor, hopefully we can make a very wise policy decision for the workers," said Chairman of the DKI Jakarta SPSI LEM FSP DPD Yusup Suprapto as always a worker representative at DKI City Hall, Tuesday, November 21.

Yusup assessed that the 15 percent increase in the UMP was sufficient limit for workers to meet their daily needs. Remember, this year, the price of basic necessities continues to increase.

"As a note, last year alone he (Heru) dared to determine the increase was 5.6 percent. This means that we hope that he can provide a proper increase as proposed by the trade union, labor union, that the increase is IDR 5.6 million," he explained.

If the wage increase of the workers increases quite high, the workers can cover their living expenses. From this, Yusup believes that there will be quite good economic growth.

"If my wages increase well, meet my living needs for next year, I can spend my money on the interests of my domestic affairs, my family, my children. The wheels of the economy are also alive," said Yusup.

For information, the determination of the value of the 2024 UMP will be stated in the governor's decision (kepgub). Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono has until November 21, 2023 to sign the governor's decree.

The determination of the amount of the UMP as outlined in the gubernatorial decree is based on the evaluation of the Wage Council session discussed by the government, elements of entrepreneurs, elements of workers, and other stakeholders.

The Wage Council session which was held on Friday, November 17 at the DKI Jakarta City Hall had been tough. Like in previous years, members of the Wage Council from elements of entrepreneurs disagreed with the elements of workers in recommending an increase in the UMP.

Finally, the Wage Council session produced three different recommendations. Recommended Jakarta UMP in 2024 from the entrepreneur's element of IDR 5,043,068. This amount is generated from the formula regulated in Government Regulation (PP) Number 51 of 2023 concerning Wages using alpha 0.20 from DKI Jakarta's economic growth.

Meanwhile, the labor group gave a recommendation for the value of the 2024 UMP of IDR 5,637,068. They did not use the formula (PP) Number 51 of 2023 which became a reference for the central government, but 1.89 percent of DKI Jakarta inflation, plus 4.96 percent of DKI Jakarta's economic growth, plus a certain index of 8.15 percent.

Then, the government element also provides recommendations that still refer to PP Number 51 of 2023. However, the DKI Provincial Government uses alpha 0.30 from Jakarta's economic growth which produces a figure of Rp5,067,381.

Some time ago, Heru gave a signal that he would follow the proposal of the Wage Council for elements of the DKI Provincial Government in determining the 2024 UMP. The DKI Provincial Government recommends a 2024 UMP of IDR 5,067,381. This nominal increased by IDR 165,583 or 3.378 percent from the 2023 UMP of IDR 4,901,798.

"The result is in accordance with (recommendation of elements of the government), 0.3. Later, the governor's decision," said Heru on Sunday, October 19.