Minister of Manpower's Special Staff Dita Indah Sari noted that the provincial and district and city minimum wage setting will use the regulation derived from the Job Creation Law.
PP No. 78 of 2015 no longer applies for the scenario due to the issuance of the new remuneration regulation, she noted after the inking of a memorandum of understanding between Indonesia and Austria here, Thursday.
Earlier, several worker unions and workers had urged the government to use PP No. 78 of 2015 to set the minimum wage for 2023.
The provincial minimum wage setting will be carried out on November 21, 2022, the latest, while the district and city minimum wage setting will be undertaken on November 30, 2022.
This aligns with the decision of the National Renumeration Board (Depenas).
On the occasion, the ministry's Secretary General, Anwar Sanusi, stated that data from the Statistics Indonesia (BPS), which becomes one of the foundations for setting the minimum wage, had been received by the ministry.
"Once we have clear information, we will convey it. We have already received the data, and we are currently discussing it," he remarked.
Earlier, during the House of Representatives' (DPR's) Commission IX work meeting here on Tuesday, Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah stated that the minimum wage for 2023 will be relatively higher as compared to that in 2022.
This projection is based on observation of economic growth and inflation data, she explained.
Indonesia's economic growth continues to show an upward trend since the second quarter of 2021.
The country's household consumption reached 50.38 percent of the total gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of 2022.
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