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TITLE: INDONESIA HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES, 1994
AUTHOR: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DATE: FEBRUARY 1995
companies were paying at least the regional minimum wage is
certainly exaggerated; independent observers' estimates range
between 30 and 60 percent. Government enforcement is weak, and
sanctions are light against employers who fail to pay the
minimum wage. Nevertheless, as a result of government
pressures, the wave of strikes in the first quarter, and the
Medan riots, some improvement in the situation seems to have
taken place. Labor law and ministerial regulations provide
workers with a variety of other benefits, such as social
security, and workers in more modern facilities often receive
health benefits and free meals.
The law establishes 7-hour workdays and 40-hour workweeks, with
one 30-minute rest period for each 4 hours of work. The law
also requires 1 day of rest out of every week. The daily
overtime rate is 1 1/2 times the normal hourly rate for the
first hour, and twice the hourly rate for additional overtime.
Regulations allow employers to deviate from the normal work
hours upon request to the Minister of Manpower and with the
agreement of the employee. Observance of laws regulating
benefits and labor standards varies from sector to sector and
by region. Employer violations of legal requirements are
fairly common and often result in strikes and employee
protests. The Ministry of Manpower continues publicly to urge
employers to comply with the law. However, in general,
government enforcement and supervision of labor standards are
weak.
Both law and regulations provide for minimum standards of
industrial health and safety. In the largely Western-operated
oil sector, safety and health programs function reasonably
well. However, in the country's 100,000 larger registered
companies in the nonoil sector, the quality of occupational
health and safety programs varies greatly. The enforcement of
health and safety standards is severely hampered by the limited
number of qualified Department of Manpower inspectors as well
as by the low level of employee appreciation for sound health
and safety practices. Allegations of corruption on the part of
inspectors are common. Workers are obligated to report
hazardous working conditions. Employers are forbidden by law
from retaliating against those who do, but the law is not
effectively enforced.