Indowarta
- October 13, 2010
Jakarta –
The administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and Vice
President Boediono is already facing a heavy challenge as it approaches the
first year of its second term in office on October 20.
The reason
being that student, worker and urban poor organisations are already preparing
to take to the streets to demonstrate at the State Palace with the demand
"SBY step down!".
The Workers
Challenge Alliance (ABM), according to coordinator Budi Wardoyo, has already
carried out a series of consolidations to gather together workers to take to
the street along with students and ordinary people to coincide with Yudhoyono
and Boediono's first year.
"Our
preparations have not just been carried out in the greater Jakarta area, but
also in Yogyakarta [Central Java], Surabaya [East Java], North Sumatra, East
Kalimantan, Makassar [South Sulawesi], Ternate [North Maluku] and other cities.
We will hold actions at symbols of power, Regional House of Representatives as
well as local government offices", he said
In Jakarta,
continued Yoyok – as Wardoyo is called – it is estimated that tens of thousands
of demonstrators from labour, student and urban poor organisation will hold an
action that will culminate at the State Palace.
"We no
longer trust SBY, we no longer trust the parliament to carry out an
impeachment. We do not want this people's movement to be taken over by the
parliament. Essentially, the people do not trust SBY-Boediono or the
parliament", he exclaimed.
Yoyok said
the reason for this is that up until now Yudhoyono and Boediono have been
little more than foreign puppets, so they have to be overthrown by a people's
movement.
During the
planned action, workers will be rejecting revisions to Law Number 13/2003 on
Labour and the privatisation of state-owned industries, demanding the
development of the national industry and the nationalisation of mining and gas
industries under the control of the people, opposing low wages and calling for
free education and healthcare (imam)
[Translated
by James Balowski.]
