Hehehe... KNPI itu kan dulunya adalah antek dan alat pemerintah di bawah Golkar. Sekarang mereka demo anti pemerintah???
>________________________________ > From: Sunny <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 5:29 AM >Subject: [proletar] Activists Blockade Mahakam River in Protest of Subsidized >Fuel Quota > > > >http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/business/activists-blockade-mahakam-river-in-protest-of-subsidized-fuel-quota/521062?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jgnewsletter >Activists Blockade Mahakam River in Protest of Subsidized Fuel Quota >Tunggadewa Mattangkilang & Camelia Pasandaran | May 30, 2012 > >Automobiles join a queue at a gas station in Pangkalan Bun, Central >Kalimantan, on May 4. Governors of Kalimantan provinces have demanded larger >quota of subsidized fuel, as they only enjoy 5 percent of the total national >quota. (Antara Photo/Andika Wahyu)Samarinda. As many as 500 people from 12 >individual groups have set up a blockade of ships carrying coal on Mahakam >River in Samarinda on Wednesday in protest of Kalimantan's low subsidized fuel >quota. > >“We launched this action at 9 a.m. this morning. We have prepared 10 boats >lining the river under the Mahakam bridge,” Mahakam Blockade Action spokesman >Endrianto said in Samarinda on Wednesday. “If the government will only fulfill >our demands in a month, then we will only end our action after a month,” he >added. > >Victor Juan, the head of the East Kalimantan branch of the Indonesian Youth >National Committee (KNPI), one of the groups taking part in the blockade, >added that two watch posts had been set up under the Mahakam bridge to ensure >that no tug boats or barges carrying coal could pass through. > >“We’ve built blockade posts for the Mahakam river. We’ll guard these posts 24 >hours [a day], and we’ve prepared two speedboats that are ready to chase after >boats that try to pass through,” Victor said. > >A number of organizations in Kalimantan have been protesting the small quota >of subsidized fuel allotted for the entire island — only 5 percent of the >total national quota — which has led to long queues in gas stations in >Kalimantan provinces for the past month, especially after the increases in >non-subsidized fuel prices in April. > >The groups have long been threatening to organize a blockade if the government >failed to add the quota. > >“We are the regions that produce [fuel], but we’ve been abandoned. Only in >Kalimantan do people queue for fuel. There are no queues in Java and other >regions,” Endrianto said. > >He added the 12 groups also demand transparency in the transfer of state funds >from the central government to regional administrations, as well the >government’s firm action against companies that fail to perform reclamation, >or restoring areas that have been affected by mining activities. > >But East Kalimantan Governor Awang Farouk Ishak warned the groups about >setting up a blockade, saying it would only “cause detriment to people, >especially businesses.” > >Home Affairs Ministry Spokesman Reydonnyzar Moenek, said on Wednesday that >representatives of the central government, the East Kalimantan administration >and some civil society organizations in the province were currently holding a >meeting to seek a solution. > >“There must be win-win solution for both the central and regional interests,” >Reydonnyzar told The Jakarta Globe by phone. > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
