Checking account, 12.4 million workers have received subsidized salary dismissal I

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Labor Minister Ida Fauziyah said the distribution of wages / salary subsidies (BSU) for period I had reached 12.4 million people or 98 percent. The distribution of this BSU I term starts from stage I to stage V.

“Alhamdulillah, we continue to monitor the payment of wage subsidies to 12.4 million. Currently the recipients have reached 98 percent, “he said through his official statement, on Monday (10/18/2020).

In the process of distributing the wage subsidy, the Minister of Labor also visited the homes of the workers who received wage subsidies and held a dialogue with them. Your visit this time is in Pekalongan Regency, Central Java.

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The BSU beneficiaries visited included Sri Riskiyah, Silfana, and Kharisul Fuad. They are all in the same area. Sri Riskiyah, a BSU beneficiary, has two children who are still young. Currently, he works at PT Prismatex Textile with a seniority of more than 10 years.

Silfana also works in the same company as Sri Riskiyah as a sewing operator. He has two children. Meanwhile, Kharisul Fuad worked as a weaving operator at a textile company in Pekalongan.

“I continue to tour the city to make sure that the BSU recipients are on target. Yesterday in Cikarang and Citeureup, now in Pekalongan,” said the Minister of Manpower.

Ida said the goal of the tour was to ensure that recipients of wage subsidy assistance met the criteria of the Minister of Labor Regulation (Permenaker) Number 14 of 2020, which was a salary less than 5 million IDR and was registered as a participant in BPJS Ketenagakerjaan as of June 30, 2020.

The Minister of the National Awakening Party (PKB) hopes that the salary assistance / salary subsidy program will benefit beneficiaries and increase people’s purchasing power so that it can increase public consumption and economy in the era of the Covid pandemic. -19.

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