Jakarta, Nov. 24 -- The Indonesian Coordinating Ministry of Community Empowerment is seeking to continuously support informal workers to become formal workers through an integrated community empowerment scheme.

"Many informal workers do not get their rights as workers. Now, it is time for us to encourage informal workers to move up into formal employment," Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment Muhaimin Iskandar said in a talk show here on Monday.

Though Indonesia's economic growth is currently stable at 5 percent, the impact is considered to have not been equally distributed for the welfare of the community, especially for informal workers.

"We must prepare new mobility pathways so that informal workers can enter the formal s...