Indonesian Workers Rally in Java to Demand 50 Percent Pay Rise
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Thousands of Indonesian workers rallied in Jakarta today to demand the government increase wages by 50 percent next year as inflation at a four-year high drives up living costs.
About 30,000 workers under the Confederation of Indonesian Labor Unions are expected to join the demonstration, which will include a protest outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Roni Febrianto, a spokesman for the confederation, said by telephone today. Workers clogged main thoroughfares in the capital and in Bandung on the country’s main Java island.