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Title OMNIBUS LAW TO ADDRESS FOREIGN WORKERS, WORKING HOURS
Media Name thejakartapost.com
Pub. Date 08 Januari 2020
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The government is looking to address issues related to foreign workers, severance
pay, minimum wage and working hours deemed as unfavorable for investors in an
omnibus bill on job creation, high-ranking officials have said.

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo instructed ministers to conclude drafting the
omnibus bill on job creation next week. "[I asked the ministers that] the omnibus
law [draft] be finished this week [or] next week, at the latest," he said.

Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah said the Ministry and the Office of the Coordinating
Economic Minister would indeed conclude discussions next week so the draft could
be brought to the House of Representatives for deliberation.

"Basically, we are only focusing on five issues, including minimum wage, severance
pay and working hours, among other things," Ida told reporters after attending the
Cabinet's first meeting this year at the Presidential Palace on Monday.

Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said on Dec. 20 that the bill
would also include the government's plan to ease the recruitment of foreign
workers, among others.

"We discussed the hiring [process] of foreign workers so that expatriates could
enter [and work in the country] without [having to wait] long," he told a press
briefing, adding that the prevailing Immigration Law had made it hard for foreign
workers to secure a temporary stay permit (KITAS).

For the planned omnibus law on job creation, the government has identified 1,194
articles in 82 laws that would be amended to accommodate one of President
Jokowi's top priorities: attracting investment to create more jobs.

The job creation bill will touch on 11 clusters of issues, including simpler licensing
procedures and labor and land procurement as part of a broader effort to improve

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