Labor Demo Rejects UMP 2024 To Increase By IDR 165 Thousand, DKI Provincial Government: Should Have Received Aja First

Workers who are members of the Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) held a demonstration against the 2024 Jakarta UMP (Dhit Ayu/VOI)

Head of the DKI Jakarta Manpower, Transmigration and Energy Agency (Disnakertransgi) Hari Nugroho responded that there were still labor groups holding demonstrations against the provincial minimum wage (UMP) in 2024.

Hari asked workers in Jakarta to accept the decision to increase the Jakarta UMP by 3.38 percent next year.

Moreover, the DKI Provincial Government is trying to reduce the burden on the needs of workers by providing assistance to the rules of structure and scale of wages to the company.

"This means that now they should just accept it first. Now, let's make what they have proposed regarding the structure of the wage scale, related to several flagship programs, maximize the KPJ (Jakartu Worker Card), that should be what must be guarded," Hari told reporters, Wednesday, November 29.

With the nominal stipulated in Governor's Decree (Kepgub) Number 818 of 2023 concerning the 2024 Provincial Minimum Wage, the DKI UMP in 2024 will increase by IDR 165,586 from the 2023 UMP which is IDR 4,901,798.

Hari said that the Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono could not determine the nominal value of the Jakarta UMP in 2024, more than the figure now ratified.

This is because this value is the maximum limit calculated using the formulation contained in Government Regulation (PP) Number 51 of 2023 concerning Wages.

"The DKI 2024 UMP according to the new PP, of course, the formula has been adjusted. That we adhere to inflation, economic growth, and we have determined the highest is 0.3, so there is an increase of around 3.38 percent, that's why we set the DKI UMP of IDR 5.06 million," explained Hari.

A group of workers who are members of the Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) held a demonstration against the 2024 minimum wage in a number of regions.

This action was also carried out in front of the DKI Jakarta City Hall, Jalan Medan Merdeka Selatan, Central Jakarta.

They rejected Heru Budi's decision to set the DKI Jakarta UMP in 2024 at 3.38 percent. Workers continue to demand the 2024 UMP to increase by 15 percent.

"We ask the governor to make sure the wages increase by 15 percent. We don't want to accept it if it doesn't increase. Moreover, it is stated by the entrepreneur that only 1 percent. That is an insult to workers who have worked optimally for rich entrepreneurs, but workers are extorted," said the representative of the labor group, Said Salahudin in his oration in front of DKI Jakarta City Hall, Tuesday, November 28.

Said threatened his group would strike a national strike if the government did not meet their demands to increase wages by 15 percent.

"We are fighting for a 15 percent wage in any way as long as the law allows. If we need a national strike, we will go on a national strike. The President of the Labor Party has been instructed that if the regional head does not follow the demands of the Labor Party, we will do everything possible to cause losses, congestion, and so on," said Said.