Liputan 6
SCTV - November 25, 2010
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Yogyakarta – Scores of workers in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta from the
Security Employees Union (SPK) and the United Indonesian Labour Movement (PPBI)
demonstrated at the Yogyakarta mayor's office on Thursday afternoon, November
25. They were demanding wage improvements.
Unfurling
banners the demonstrators also urged the government to abolish contract labour
systems and defend the Indonesian working class. They also said that the
administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ignored the plight of
Indonesian domestic workers. The foreign exchange heroes [as the government
refers to them] are simply being sent off without guarantees or protection.
In the East
Java provincial capital of Surabaya, students and workers demonstrated in front
the Negara Grahadi building where they opposed the Surabaya city minimum wage
for this year, which they consider unreasonable. The demonstrators also urged
East Java Governor Sukarwo to immediately revise the 2011 minimum municipal
wage.
In the North
Sumatra city of Medan, scores of dismissed workers pelted the North Sumatra
Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) office with rotten eggs. The former PT
WRP Buana Multicorpora employees said that that the people's representatives
(legislators) had failed them in dealing with the problem of workers who have
been arbitrary dismissed.
The protest
action continued for around one-and-a-half hours. Unfortunately, their demands
were not realised. (WIL/SHA)
[Translated
by James Balowski.]
