The L20, during Indonesia’s G20 Presidency, should offer concrete results for other developing and underdeveloped countries.
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto, has urged the Labour20 (L20), which represents the interests of workers at G0, to help tackle poverty and unemployment.

He has further asked the L20 to fight for the benefits of the vulnerable groups of workers like women and people with disabilities.

“The L20, during Indonesia’s G20 Presidency, should offer concrete results for other developing and underdeveloped countries,” he said here on Monday.

L20 convenes labor unions leaders and was institutionally recognized at France’s G20 Summit in 2011, thereby aligning with B20, he noted.

This year, the L20 can conduct piloting or lighthouses to drive workers’ transformation in pursuit of digitalization, retraining, reskilling, and workers’ welfare, he suggested.

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The labor union delegates will meet G20 state leaders at the G20 Summit where they will propose their ideas for job stabilization and workers’ social protection, Hartarto added.

He expressed optimism that Indonesia’s L20 would lead the labor unions of G20 state members and various international institutions to make concrete breakthroughs for labor protection.

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In 2021, the Indonesian government disbursed wage subsidy assistance (BSU) worth Rp8.8 trillion to 8.8 million workers, he noted. Its Pre-employed Card Program covered 11.4 million people in 2020 and 2021, he added.

“This is the government’s foremost fully digital program from upstream to downstream. Currently, this program has face recognition feature. So, it has been fully AI (artificial intelligence-based), with its direct payment from the state’s treasurer to the members’ e-wallet,” he remarked.



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