Ngibul ah. 

Nggak ada Aljazeera nyebut-nyebut Soeharto, PKI, Nasionalis. 

Situ hobi mandeg di jaman itu sih, ogah maju barang sedetik.  

Mandeg di tempat tapi sibuk muter-muter. Kayak kitiran rusak.

--- Bukan Pedanda <bukan.pedanda@...> wrote: 

Kelas buruh Indonesia mulai bangkit kembali setelah dilumpuhkan oleh partai 
fascist PKI yang beserta serdadu mendukung nasionalist fascist Sukarno, lalu 
kelas buruh Indonesia ditindas oleh rezim fascist militer Soeharto..

--

Tens of thousands protest in Indonesia

Workers demand a higher minimum wage and an end to outsourcing as unrest in 
southeast Asia's largest economy amplifies.

Last Modified: 22 Nov 2012 09:29

Al Jazeera talks to Indonesian journalist about the meaning of the protests in 
the county.

Tens of thousands of workers have gathered outside the presidential palace in 
Jakarta in Indonesia, demanding higher wages, better working conditions and 
that more economic growth trickle down to the working class.

The demonstrations on Thursday come a day after a governor in the capital 
Jakarta agreed to raise the minimum wage by 44 per cent but protesters said 
they wanted government to provide better health care and pensions and wanted to 
ensure that the courts do not over turn their decision.

Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen, reporting from the capital, said "tens of thousands 
of workers have been marching through the city centre and have reached the 
presidential palace ... they have been demonstrating for weeks for a higher 
minimum wage, and they have been demanding to get rid of a much hated 
outsourcing policy.

"Basically, government has met these demands over the past week, now they are 
here to show they are not satisfied yet."

They say that they have an expensive pension fund and an expensive health 
scheme, and they want to get rid of them as well, Vaessen said.

Governor Joko Widodo agreed to lift the minimum monthly wage in Jakarta to 2.2 
million rupiah ($228) from 1.53 million rupiah. In Indonesia, local authorities 
set minimum wages for their regions. 

Wealth gap

"Workers are demanding better rights because the gap between the well off and 
not so well off have increased in Indonesia," Subramananiam Pillay, a 
journalist based in Jakarta, told Al Jazeera.

"This is why they are protesting." he said.

Pillay said that unions are likely to influence political parties to forward 
their case, especially if parties want to win the next legislative and 
presidential elections.

On Wednesday, thousands blocked the streets of the capital, and marched to the 
presidential palace, demanding a rise in the minimum wage and a ban on contract 
work, in a wave of protest to hit the country.

On November 15, workers took to the streets in Purwakarta, West Java, and the 
rising unrest is said to indicated growing worker and union distrust of the 
government and an increasing boldness to demonstrate for change. 

In early October, a nationwide strike crippled production at 1000 factories.

The number of protests have increased even as Indonesia posted strong growth 
and attracted a record $5.9 bn in foreign direct investment in the third 
quarter of this year. 

Indonesia's economy has expanded more than five per cent in seven out of the 
past eight years.

The country is expected to grow by more than six per cent in 2012 as it 
continues to attract record amounts of foreign direct investment as more global 
companies try to reach the growing middle class as well as its rich natural 
resources.

On Thursday, the Jakarta Post reported that foreign direct investment (FDI) is 
likely to remain high in 2013 "as the country will likely retain its economic 
strength amid economic problems beleaguering other competitors in attracting 
foreign investment to the region." 
Source:
Al Jazeera



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