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southchick · Joined: 25 Dec 2010 Posts: 3

Do most schools close for an entire week (or longer?) for this holiday? Do teachers routinely get the Lebaran bonus pay?

Thanks for the info!

Madame J · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:02 pm Post subject:

Depends if we're talking a regular school or a language school. Many language schools do. As for regular ones, it depends on the faith of the school.

As for Lebaran bonus pay, I have to say I've never heard of such a thing!

travelNteach · Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Posts: 222

most schools close for as least several days if not the entire week for 2 reasons. 1. govt regulations. 2. most staff are muslim and want to go home/celebrate the holidays with families.

madam j how long did u live in indo? just 1 year? and u have been gone for about a year right?

a 1 month religious salary is the law. indoneisians get it according to their faith.... ie the muslims at ramahdan, the christians at christmas. why do u think that EF gives a 13month salary? out of the kindness of their heart???? NOT. the are actually supposed to give it to each teacher according to their faith, but they hold it til the end of the contract, just like the last half of the airfar, as a way to prevent people from doing runners or losing more money on people that did runners. i am sure they would have a lot more escapees if the had to pay dec. salary and the religious bonus in dec as they are required to do by law.

@ southchick, if u worked at a reputable school that paid the religious holiday pay when they were supposed to and u are muslim, then u would get lebaran bonus pay..... prorated if u had worked at least 6 months but less than a year.

Madame J · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:32 am Post subject:

I was in Indo 14 months, and left six months ago. Is it just EF that withholds religious bonus pay, then? I had friends working at other schools, and I never heard about any of them receiving bonus pay in December either.

Synergy101 · Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Jatim

Having been here for quite a while I'm about 99% sure that the 13th month religious faith bonus law does not apply to foreigners.

travelNteach · Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Posts: 222

a lot of schools do this and manpower doesnt make a big deal of it as long as it gets paid in the end. i think the reason they are allowed to do this is because they would have to prorate it as nobody starts and starts on the religious holiday.

synergy101, maybe u should check your sources again. it applies to all workes working in indoneisa, including foreigners on contracts of 1 year or more. does your contract give u a 13th month bonus? did u alway know that in addition to yearly airflights that according to manpower/social welfare, i forget the intitala, jamsotek or something similar to the stock market letters, that each worker is supposed to get 1 month bonus salary for each year of service when he leaves that company? that is why the federal govt cannot legally terminate all the people that have never even shown up for work. to do so would bankrupt them as it would have to be paid all at once. the have workers that have been on the books more than 20 years, but the govt figures it is easier just to keep paying them monthly than make all those lump sum payments. doenst make sense, but this indonesia so it doesnt really have to.