Labor remuneration in Jakarta's small enterprises: Exploitative or equitable?

This paper examines labor remuneration in Jakarta's small-scale garment and wood furniture enterprises located in three industrial clusters. Workers in small-scale enterprises received an equitable wage in comparison with employment conditions in large firms and the minimum physical needs of workers. An equitable remuneration for workers is not so much dependent on enterprise size as the dynamics of the industrial sector. Therefore, government policies should focus on dynamic industrial sectors in specific contextual setting and location.