Detik.com
- October 20, 2009
Muhammad Nur
Abdurrahman, Makassar – It has not just been in Jakarta and Java that mass
actions opposing the inauguration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY)
and Vice President Boediono have taken place.
On Tuesday
October 20, some 500 people calling themselves the Makassar Parliament of the
Streets Alliance (APJ) also held a demonstration in front of the Mandala
Monument in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar.
The
protesters, who said that Yudhoyono and Boediono are neoliberal lackeys and
pro-foreign capital, warned that they would again bring suffering to the
ordinary people as was the case over the last five years.
According to
action coordinator Wahida, the signs of the Yudhoyono administration’s failures
were easy to recognise, namely fuel price increases on at least two occasions,
the abolition of education subsides along with the high cost of education for
the poor and the law on foreign investment that emasculate workers’ rights.
“The
parliament and cabinet that have just now been put together by SBY really make
us even more doubtful about their quality and support for the people. They are
in fact only lackeys of foreign powers labeled neoliberal, moreover Boediono is
a member of the International Monetary Fund,” said Wahida. (mna/djo)
[Abridged
translation by James Balowski.]
