Detik.com
- May 1, 2009
Reno
Nugraha, Cirebon – Scores of workers and students took to the streets in the
West Java city of Cirebon on May 1 to commemorate International Labour Day,
blockading the Jakarta-Cirebon northern coast road at Jl. Brigjen Darsono.
The
protesters, who came from the Cirebon City Youth and Social Struggle Alliance
also set fire to tyres and held a‘sleep-in in the middle of the road resulting
in a 5 kilometre traffic jam.
In speeches,
the workers demanded the abolition of contract labour systems saying that this
only brings suffering to workers and benefits the interests of capitalism.
“Reject outsourcing systems that treats workers as if they are enslaved, worse
still [they] are enslaved by their own country,” said action coordinator Hendra
on Friday May 1.
As of 2pm
the blockade was still in place forcing police to redirect the flow of traffic
through alternative routes. (djo/djo)
[Translated
by James Balowski.]
