JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung responded to the protest which was held again by a group of workers to oppose the 2026 provincial minimum wage (UMP) around the National Monument (Monas) and the Palace, Central Jakarta.
Pramono invited labor groups to demonstrate to demand the government revise the UMP determination. What is clear, Pramono asked for the action to be held smoothly and without any riots.
"Democratization is a democratic right. Anyone can do that, but of course with permission," said Pramono in Central Jakarta, Thursday, January 8.
Regarding the workers' rejection of his decision to set the UMP next year at Rp5.7 million, Pramono emphasized that the value of Jakarta is still the highest compared to other provinces in Indonesia.
He also touched on the amount of the Jakarta UMP increase which was determined using the alpha value of 0.75. This value is the middle ground taken by Pramono from the labor proposal which asked for an alpha of more than 0.9 and the business group which proposed 0.55 in the formulation of the UMP in the DKI Jakarta Wage Council.
"So when the process in Jakarta, at that time the Wage Council was really transparent and open. So that way from the workers, from the employers, then the Jakarta government monitors directly and the implementation is actually running tight," said Pramono.
Therefore, Pramono hopes that no labor or employer parties will sue the value of the DKI Jakarta UMP increase that he has set for the court.
"The solution is going well. So the decision to run 0.75 was a mutual agreement. Hopefully Jakarta will not have (a lawsuit), because UMP Jakarta is also compared to other areas, it is already very high," he said.
A number of workers from Jakarta and West Java are back on the streets. The President of the Indonesian Workers' Confederation (KSPI) Said Iqbal emphasized that the minimum wage policy set by the DKI Jakarta and West Java Provincial Governments is not in line with Government Regulation (PP) Number 49 of 2025 and does not reflect the need for a decent living (KHL).
"Cheap wages will suppress workers' purchasing power, deepen deflation, and have a negative impact on regional economic growth," said Said Iqbal, some time ago.
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