Investor Presentaiton
The low rates of growth experienced by Kalimantan in every
sector except services between the fourth quarter of 2008 and
the second quarter of 2009 (rates which were the worst in the
country), did not bode well for the maintenance of employment
in agriculture and manufacturing.
By December 2008, there were reports of worker dismissals
from oil palm and rubber processing plants, timber and
plywood factories. There were reductions in the plantation
labour force as expansion was postponed.
Some workers were told to go home and wait until conditions
improved, meanwhile being paid a small retainer. This
strategy saved the estates or factories providing severance
pay for sacked workers. In other cases workers were not
dismissed, but asked to work shorter hours, thus becoming
under-employed.
Although migrants laid off from jobs overseas were being
forced to return home (an estimated 100,000 from electronics
industries in Malaysia), this aspect did not have a serious
impact on Kalimantan. Most of these largely female migrants
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