Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Indonesia (Ratification: 1958)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

1. In previous comments the Committee noted that the practical application of section 3 of Government Regulation No. 8 of 1981 (which prohibits wage discrimination between male and female workers for work of equal value) rests upon minimum wage fixing by industry or region and piece-rate wages.

The Committee takes note of the list of minimum wage fixing decisions and the collective agreement of PT Primatex Co., Indonesia, supplied by the Government with its report. It requests the Government to supply copies of texts of any minimum wage fixing decisions which show the rates thus fixed and of collective agreements concluded, in particular in sectors with a high percentage of female workers, and to indicate the approximate number of workers covered.

2. In the previous comment, the Committee noted that in order to promote and ensure the observance of section 3 of Regulation No. 8 of 1981, with regard to wages and allowances fixed by collective or individual agreement, the Government had taken measures to provide guidance and information to employers, to establish a system of enforcement carried out by labour inspectors, and to undertake in-depth studies of the provisions of collective labour agreements and company regulations. It requested the Government to supply more detailed information on the various measures taken and the results achieved, including copies of reports by labour inspectors and details concerning any proceedings under section 3 of Regulation No. 8 of 1981.

Since the Government's report contains no reply to this request, the Committee again asks the Government to furnish information in this connection.

3. With reference to its earlier comments, the Committee again requests the Government to supply information on recent activities of the National Commission on the Status of Women relevant to the principle of the Convention, including the results of any research performed concerning the wages of women workers.

4. The Committee also requests the Government to supply copies of the documents prepared concerning the job descriptions which have been set up for all categories of occupation, as it indicated in its previous report.