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The government through amendments to the Joint Decree (SKB) regarding National Holidays and Joint Leave in 2023. Where there is an addition of joint leave holidays in the framework of Eid al-Adha 1444H to 28-30 June 2023. The addition of this holiday seems to be a separate burden for businesses. Chairperson of the Indonesian Filament Fiber and Yarn Association (APSyFi), Redma Gita Wirawasta, said that increasing holidays would increase the burden of overtime due to employees working on holidays. "We, as a manufacturing industry, work a lot 24 hours, which is divided into several shifts. With the addition of this holiday, we have to increase costs with overtime pay," said Redma.

With this additional holiday, manufacturers in the manufacturing industry have to pay more to pay overtime workers. On the other hand, the manufacturing industry is struggling as a result of global conditions and the domestic market, which imports a lot.

"Actually, workers need work more than holidays at this time." he said.

Production costs have increased, overtime wages have also increased. There is already a calculation of what percentage of production costs will be incurred by manufacturers in the manufacturing industry. There are differences between the upstream and downstream industries, as upstream is more of a 24-hour industry, apart from that there are other obstacles such as tracing regulations, while downstream it can still be regulated meaning that even if there is an order upstream, overtime will be taken while downstream will choose a holiday.

"Because of the high cost of 25% it will be very expensive if you take overtime for the downstream part because if you take overtime it means you have to give 50%, especially now that there are not many orders," said Redma.

"But the point is not that, this holiday is for the lower class people who need more income while companies are having a hard time" he continued.

Orders can't hit the average for additional holiday policies, maybe for the capital city it might be suitable because the average office worker, but for factory areas it's not quite right because it will disrupt production activities.