Indonesia’s Parliament gave final approval Monday to a sweeping jobs-creation bill that would loosen labor and environmental regulations, moves that critics say would harm workers and permit widespread deforestation. With seven of Parliament’s nine political parties in favor, lawmakers easily passed the 905-page stimulus measure that aims to attract investment by slashing regulations contained in nearly 80 separate laws.
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/world/asia/indonesia-stimulus-bill-strike.html
