Denpasar set to increase minimum wage

DENPASAR: The Denpasar municipal administration office has set the minimum wage for the city at Rp 1.1 million, to be effective as of Jan. 1, 2010.

Denpasar Manpower, Transmigration and Social Affairs Office chief AA. Oka Badra warned employers to abide by the prevailing regulation.

The local authorities and representatives of workers and employers' associations recently decided on the minimum wage.

Badra said the minimum wage had been increased slightly from Rp 952,000 in 2009 to Rp 1.1 million in 2010.

"There are so many factors that influenced the increase. Higher inflation, regional economic growth and other issues contributed to the change," he said.

Badra called on local businesses to report to his office if they could not pay the minimum wage to their worker