The financing need of equitable provision of paid maternal leave in the informal sector in Indonesia: a comparison of estimation methods

Table 1 Assumptions and values used in the respective methods

Items	Method A [19]	Method B [44]	Modification made to method A or B for comparison
Type of intervention costed	Share of paid maternity leave payment between government and firms	MCT	MCT⁺
Exchange rate	Rp 13,120/US$ [50]	Rp 14,236/US$ [51]	Rp 14,236/US$⁺
Rate of cash benefit provided to employees by employers (%)	100 [8]	100 [8]	No changes
Period of estimation	10 years (estimated for 2020–2030)	Annual	Annual⁺
Unit cost(s)
Minimum wage per month (US$)	110.6^	159.20 (39.80/week)*	Minimum wage per province were updated to 2018 values⁺
2/3 of minimum wage per month (US$)	–	106.13 (26.53/week)*	Excluded⁺⁺
Family Hope cash transfer per month	–	168.59 (42.15/week) [52, 53]	Excluded⁺⁺
Poverty line per month**	–	36.02 (9.01/week) [54, 55]	Excluded⁺⁺
Percentage of working WRA	51.30 [48]	50.17 [20]	50.17⁺
Percentage of women working in formal/informal sector (out of working WRA	42.12 [56] (formal sector)	59.11 [20] (informal sector)	59.11 (informal sector) ⁺
Expected coverage of women in informal sector potentially eligible to receive paid maternity leave (%)	4.5 up to 21^a from 2020 to 2030 [8]	21^a and 100 [8] (one year, respectively)	Only 100 (one year) ^{+, ++}
Total number of WRA working informally who gave birth covered (15–49 years)	1,687,364	1,147,204	1,425,589⁺
Length of maternity leave	3 and 6 months [57]	13, 14, 18 and 26 weeks [57, 58]	Only 3 months^{+, ++}
Administration cost per female covered (US$)	–	35 (2018)*** [59]	35⁺

⁺Modification made to study A, ⁺⁺ Modification made to study B, ^This is national level average wage, only serves to give a rough picture of the amount for the readers, the method itself used provincial minimum wage for its calculation [56]. The wage rate used for the calculation itself was the average wage rate per province; *the wage reflects average provincial minimum wage, compiled from various provincial regulation documents; **3.2US$ PPP 2011 per day, converted into 2018 nominal value using PPP conversion of Rp5,341.5/US$ and 2019 exchange rate, ***assumed to be similar to the Family Hope Program [59], adjusted to 2018 value using CPI of 147% (2010 = 100) [60]; ^aMean of coverage in law of maternity leave [8]
Table 1 shows the assumptions and values used in the calculation

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