Indonesian women work on hand-printed batik cloths at a workshop in central Java's Yogyakarta March...

Indonesian women work on hand-printed batik cloths at a workshop in central Java's Yogyakarta March 2. The women earn 10,000 rupiah (U.S$1.3) each per day and it takes them 15 days to finish a piece of batik cloth. The owner of the workshop exports most of his batik and sells it at 800,000 rupiah (US$107) a piece. Indonesia's minimum daily wage is among the lowest in Asia. Jakarta plans to raise the wage by up to 55 percent from next month in a country where Gross National Product per capita has tumbled during the country's prolonged economic and political crisis. Batik is a technique of dyeing fabrics.