Indonesia Girds for Millions Protesting for More Wages: Economy
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Indonesia’s capital is girding for a potential turnout of millions of protesters asking for a bigger increase in minimum wages in the world’s fourth most-populous nation, a test of President Joko Widodo’s pro-business image.
The two-day national protest, starting Dec. 10, will involve four trade union groups, Muhammad Rusdi, a secretary general at the Indonesian Trade Union Confederation, or KSPI, said by phone in Jakarta yesterday. Workers have seven demands including renegotiating last month’s minimum-wage deal and scrapping outsourcing in state-owned companies, he said.