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Indonesia's Cheap Wages Regime: The Political Economy of Minimum Wages Policy under Jokowi Presidency
Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-07-09 , DOI: 10.1007/s40647-021-00324-8
Anindya Dessi Wulansari 1
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Indonesia's new wage policy mechanism made a new history since Joko Widodo (Jokowi) became President. The first minimum wages policy in Indonesia was implemented in 1969 in which the determination comes from society's monthly necessities through a discussion involving labor, employer, and state, it is known that the determination is no longer using aforementioned variables but it is rather based on a market-standard formula. This paper exploring the logic political-economic of wage policies implementation based on neoliberalism in the first presidency of Jokowi, which has implications for affirming cheap wages policies. This research uses a qualitative method by comparing two regions with different economic bases, namely Bekasi as the largest industrial area in Southeast Asia and Yogyakarta as the province with the highest national economy inequality and the cheapest national minimum wage representation. The findings of this research show that this new wage formulation is emerged from the ideology of corporatism that takes place in every power transfer process and has the implication of reinforcing wage inequality that occurs in the local context in Indonesia. Politically, this regulation eliminates the democratic mechanism in the form of tripartite through a survey of monthly necessities which is carried out by labor, government and employer every year and has divided the strength of trade unions in fighting for the determination of decent wages.



中文翻译:

印度尼西亚的廉价工资制度:佐科总统任期内最低工资政策的政治经济学

印尼新的工资政策机制创造了自佐科·维多多(Jokowi)就任总统以来的新历史。印度尼西亚的第一个最低工资政策是在 1969 年实施的,其中确定的决定来自社会的月必需品,通过涉及劳工、雇主和国家的讨论,众所周知,确定不再使用上述变量,而是基于市场标准公式。本文探讨了佐科第一任总统期间基于新自由主义的工资政策实施的政治经济逻辑,这对确认廉价工资政策具有启示意义。本研究采用定性方法,通过比较具有不同经济基础的两个地区,即勿加泗是东南亚最大的工业区,日惹是国民经济不平等程度最高、全国最低工资代表最低的省份。这项研究的结果表明,这种新的工资公式是从发生在每个权力转移过程中的社团主义意识形态中产生的,并暗示了印度尼西亚当地环境中发生的工资不平等现象的加剧。在政治上,该条例通过每年由劳工、政府和雇主进行的月度生活必需品调查,取消了三方形式的民主机制,分散了工会为确定体面工资而斗争的力量。这项研究的结果表明,这种新的工资公式是从发生在每个权力转移过程中的社团主义意识形态中产生的,并暗示了印度尼西亚当地环境中发生的工资不平等现象的加剧。在政治上,该条例通过每年由劳工、政府和雇主进行的月度生活必需品调查,取消了三方形式的民主机制,分散了工会为确定体面工资而斗争的力量。这项研究的结果表明,这种新的工资公式是从发生在每个权力转移过程中的社团主义意识形态中产生的,并暗示了印度尼西亚当地环境中发生的工资不平等现象的加剧。在政治上,该条例通过每年由劳工、政府和雇主进行的月度生活必需品调查,取消了三方形式的民主机制,分散了工会为确定体面工资而斗争的力量。

更新日期:2021-07-09
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