Strikes close mills temporarily.Strikes close mills temporarily. Strikes at two Indonesian units of troubled Asia Pulp pulp: see paper. & Paper (APP See application. app - application program ) forced a plant to close for two-and-a-half days last week, but it has resumed operation. PT Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper and PT Lontar Papyrus papyrus (pəpī`rəs), a sedge (Cyperus papyrus), now almost extinct in Egypt but so universally used there in antiquity as to be the hieroglyphic symbol for Lower Egypt and a common motif in art. , experienced labor disputes at their mills in Perawang, Riau Province, and Tebing Tinggi Tebing Tinggi is an city in North Sumatra, Indonesia. It has an area of 31 km² and a population of 125,000 people. Not to be confused with Tebing Tinggi Island in Riau. , Jambi Province, with the workers demanding higher pay. APP said the wage was already significantly above the latest government-set minimum wage. Minimum wages in Indonesia differ depending on the area. |
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