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Appendix XII

Statutory provisions relating to protection of wages

INDONESIA

Labour Rules Craft Industries Ordinance of 1941

Article 5

(1)

The employer is required to ensure that his workers and paid the full many wages owed to them at regular intervals of at least once a month.

(2)

(as amended by State Gazette No. 208 of 1947) Deductions from a worker's money wage which are in excess of the Income Tax Ordinance, may only be made in respect of debts owed to the employer, fines imposed by the employer on the employee, or for the payment of dues to funds, which are approved by law or by the Head of the Labour Division of the Department of Social Affairs.

The deductions

(3)

mentioned in the preceding paragraph may not amount to more than one-fourth of the money wage due to the worker since the last payment of wages.

Article 6.

(1)(f)

(as amended by State Gazette No. 208 of 1947) An employer is forbidden, either directly or indirectly, to give a worker payment other than in the form of money, except when the head of the Labour Division of the Department of Social Affairs so decides by virtue of his authority to permit a deviation from thi rule, stipulating certain conditions..

The Civil Code, Title 7A, Book III

Article 1602h

The payment of the money wage is made in the legal currency of Indonesia, it being understood that a wage fixed in a foreign currency shall be calculated according to its exchange rate on the day and at the place of employment, or if the exchange rate is not known at the place of employment, according to the rate obtaining at the nearest place of commerce. However, an ordinace may provide for exceptions to the above rule for certain Regions or parts there of.

Article 1602q

To the extent that the wage expressed in money or the part of it left over after deduction of amounts not chargeable to the employer, and the worker's debts to a third party according to the provisions of this Title, is not paid by the third day following the pay day and if this is by default of employer, the worker shall be entitled to an addition to his wage by reason of such delay, which for the fourth up to the eighth day amounts to five per centum a day, and for subsequent days one per centum a