A video of Americans being shocked when they discovered that the minimum wage in Indonesia was going viral on social media, and various reactions were shown; they even looked worried about Indonesians having to live with such a low salary.
The viral video uploaded by Indonesian digital creator, @stevenapriliano, through his TikTok account, shows how Americans look confused and surprised at how Indonesians can survive and buy their daily necessities with such a small wage.
In the viral video, Tepen interviews Americans about the estimated monthly salary of Indonesians.
The Americans then estimated that the salaries received by Indonesians each month reached tens of millions of rupiah at a minimum.
The first person Tepen interviewed was an American woman; when asked, she thought Indonesians were paid USD 5,000, or around IDR 75 million per month.
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Tepen immediately refuted the woman’s guess about the minimum wage in Indonesia.
The second person interviewed by Tepen said Indonesians earn salaries of USD 2,000, or around IDR 30 million per month. But the second person’s guess was also wrong.
Finally, Tepen told those Americans that the average salary that Indonesians receive per month is around USD 300, or around IDR 4.5 million.
All those Americans that Tepen interviewed seemed genuinely shocked at how low the minimum wage in Indonesia is.
“What? That’s insane,” said the woman who Tepen interviewed.
It continued; Tepen asked other Americans about the monthly salary Indonesians receive.
This time he interviewed an American man as the third respondent in the video.
The man answered that the salary of Indonesians is estimated at USD 3,000 a month, or around IDR 45 million.
However, when told that the average Indonesian receives a salary of USD 300 a month or around IDR 4.5 million, the man looked baffled.
He couldn’t believe how low the wages of Indonesian citizens were and, at first, thought that Tepen was lying to him.
On average, all the Americans interviewed by Tepen said they were surprised by the monthly income of Indonesians. They admitted they were baffled about how Indonesians could survive with such a low wage.
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