Wages had not changed much?
It's Labor Day. Workers claim that wages had not changed much. Which begs the question: compared to what?
Real wages in Indonesia (BPS)
Statistics of average real wages (total industri in the graph above) shows that since the 1998 crisis, real wages have been increasing at more than 7 percent per year, which double the real wages in 10-year time.However, compared to the pre-crisis peak of real wages in 1997, current real wages are only about 20 percent higher, which may explain workers' claim. Moreover, in the last two years, real wages have been stagnating, if not declining.
And labors, of course, are not created equal. Cigarette factory workers (industri rokok) and garment workers (industri pakaian jadi) are among the winners, while ceramic workers (industri batu bata, ubin) are the losers.
1 comments:
U say compare to what?
Of course compare to the wages in last 2 years. Look at the total industry wages. It's true that the real wages increase much in last ten years. But not in last 2 years. It even decrease, which also means, economic growth in last 2 years has no benefit to the labor/middle class people.
Though we all know, most of the workers who claim it, were mobilized by politicians. But their claim is not wrong however.
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