REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said the national remuneration system does not yet put workers as a subject in companies.

"Our remuneration system has not yet put workers as a subject in the company so that conflicts often arise with regard to wages," the manpower and transmigration minister stated while opening a national conference on productivity here on Thursday.

He noted that one of the ways to overcome such conflicts was to put workers as a subject in the company. "Of course, the workers should have the required (skill and experience)," he noted.

The national conference, he said, is part of consolidation efforts among workers, employers, and the government to increase productivity. "Creativity and efficiency could increase productivity. Thus, productivity prioritizes creativity and efficiency," he added.

Muhaimin pointed out that a productivity gain sharing system is one of the alternatives presented by the remuneration system.

"The productivity gain sharing system could build partnerships between workers and employers in deciding wage scales on a bipartite basis," the minister added.

With this system, the productivity growth achieved by the company could contribute to workers' wages. "This model increases the motivation of workers to improve their productivity within the framework of galvanizing the company's added value," he stated.

"This added value could raise workers' income," he said.

In the meantime, a number of industrial zones in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi were paralyzed on Thursday as a result of labor strikes.

"Striking workers have already paralyzed the Pulogadung industrial zone (Jakarta) as of this morning," the secretary general of the Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI), Muhammad Rusdi, said.

Industries affected by the strike in Jakarta include those in Cakung, Sunter, Cilincing and Tanjung Priok, while in West Java, Bekasi and Depok were affected, as well as Cikupa and Tangerang in the Banten province.

Rusdi noted that the striking workers in Jakarta are demanding a wage increase to Rp3.7 million, the revocation of Presidential Instruction Number 9/2013, the eradication of the outsourcing system, and the implementation of health insurance by 2014.

The workers, who will remain on strike until Nov. 1, have visited several factories to demand that the workers there join the strike.

"The workers asked them to join the demonstration," remarked one of the workers in Tangerang, Mirda.

Roads in Tangerang, Banten, particularly around industrial areas, were clogged with demonstrators.

Minister Muhaimin Iskandar has called on the workers to refrain from creating traffic jams and disturbing the peace during their activities and appealed to them to express their aspirations through various forums such as the bipartite forum or the remuneration board.

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