Offline Worker Activity Has Increase, Manpower Self-Confident Company Will Pay Full THR

Thousands of workers at the Djarum Kudus Cigarette Factory, Central Java in June 2020. (Antara/Andreas FA)

JAKARTA - The Minister of Manpower (Menaker) Ida Fauziyah is optimistic that the company will pay the 2022 Eid al-Fitr holiday allowance (THR) to its workers in full without installments or delays.

"I have full confidence that the THR payment will be made by entrepreneurs as before the COVID-19 pandemic (THR was paid in full)," said the Minister of Manpower in a written statement received in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Friday, April 15.

The Minister of Manpower expressed his confidence given the current economic condition which was much better than the THR implementation two years earlier due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"This can be seen from our ability, our success in controlling the spread of COVID-19 and high vaccination coverage to boosters. This has a positive impact on the normalization of community activities," he said.

The normalization of community activities, he said, was marked by an increase in the activities of workers/laborers who work offline in business activities, both in the formal and informal sectors.

In addition, the recovery of teaching and learning activities and the relaxation of activities for people who travel out of town or abroad are examples of activities that have started to run normally.

"In addition, the implementation of a series of activities on a national and international scale, as well as increasing foreign tourists," he said.

On the other hand, the acceleration of economic recovery in 2022 has also driven improvements in real sector indicators earlier this year. Marked by the Consumer Confidence Index at an optimistic level of 113.10 in February 2022 and the Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) at an expansionary level of 51.2 as of February 2022.

"This is an indication for us, we believe (THR is paid in full) and in the end encourage the company to be able to pay Religious THR in accordance with the Circular that I have published," he concluded.