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PERNYATAAN
SIKAP
PERHIMPUNAN
RAKYAT PEKERJA
No
: 312/PS/KP-PRP/ e/I/011
Solidaritas Terhadap
Rakyat Pekerja di Tunisia !!!
Salam rakyat pekerja,
Kejatuhan Zine El Abidine Ben Ali dari tampuk kekuasaan di Tunisia
tentunya bisa menjadi pelajaran berharga bagi rakyat pekerja di
Indonesia. Kejatuhan Ben Ali dari kursi Presiden Tunisia disebabkan
sistem Neoliberalisme yang diterapkan di negara tersebut. Dampak dari
penerapan sistem Neoliberalisme, seperti kenaikan harga bahan
makanan, pengangguran dan korupsi yang merajalela, menjadi penyebab
gagalnya rezim Neoliberal yang dipimpin oleh Ben Ali.
Politik upah murah sebagai salah satu upaya untuk merayu masuknya
para pemodal asing ke Tunisia menjadi penyebab merosotnya daya beli
rakyat pekerja di Tunisia. Ketiadaan lapangan pekerjaan serta praktek
korupsi yang dijalankan oleh elit-elit politik borjuasi di Tunisia
juga menjadi penunjang kehancuran ekonomi nasional negara tersebut.
Berbagai hal tersebutlah yang akhirnya menyebabkan kemarahan rakyat
pekerja di Tunisia hingga menyebabkan kejatuhan Ben Ali dari
kekuasaan.
Tunisia yang pernah disanjung-sanjung oleh agen-agen Neoliberalisme
di dunia, pada awalnya mengklaim berhasil mengangkat PDB Tunisia dari
US$1.206 pada tahun 1986 menjadi US$ 3.786. Hal ini akibat resep yang
diberikan Dana Moneter Internasional (IMF) untuk memacu pertumbuhan
ekonomi semu di Tunisia. Akibatnya adalah Tunisia semakin bergantung
secara ekonomi kepada negara-negara imperialis dan para pemilik
modal, dimana sekitar 80% pendapatan nasionalnya diperoleh dari
investasi yang dilakukan perusahaan asing.
Klaim rezim Neoliberal Tunisia atas keberhasilan pertumbuhan ekonomi
tentu saja tidak dirasakan secara nyata oleh rakyat pekerja disana.
Pada kenyataannya, angka pengangguran yang terjadi di Tunisia
mencapai 30% dari keseluruhan penduduka. Hal ini tentu saja dianggap
sebagai sebuah kebohongan besar dari rezim Neoliberal yang berjalan
di Tunisia.
Mirip seperti di Tunisia, rezim Neoliberal di Indonesia kenyataannya
memiliki permasalahan yang sama. Praktek Neoliberalisme yang
diterapkan di Indonesia kenyataannya juga telah menyengsarakan
rakyat. Pertumbuhan ekonomi yang diagung-agungkan oleh rezim
Neoliberal selama ini sebenarnya hanyalah sebuah kebohongan besar.
Keberhasilan pertumbuhan ekonomi yang dipaparkan oleh rezim
Neoliberal jelas tidak sesuai dengan kondisi nyata di rakyat pekerja
Indonesia. Rakyat pekerja di Indonesia harus beradaptasi dengan
kondisi perekonomian yang semakin mencekik akibat penerapan sistem
Neoliberalisme. Utang, mengurangi jatah makanan atau bahkan bunuh
diri menjadi pilihan-pilihan yang tersedia untuk beradaptasi dengan
kondisi saat ini.
Penggulingan
Ben Ali dari tampuk kekuasaan di Tunisia tentunya dapat dijadikan
pelajaran berharga bagi rakyat pekerja di Indonesia. Kepemimpinan di
menit-menit akhir Serikat Pekerja Tunisia (UGTT) yang mendorong untuk
melakukan pemogokan nasional dalam rangka melumpuhkan aktifitas
perekenomian Tunisa, mampu mempercepat kehancuran rezim Ben Ali yang
arogan. Dengan kata lain, Rakyat pekerja di Tunisia telah mampu untuk
menggusur kediktatoran Ben Ali yang telah berkuasa selama 23 tahun.
Walaupun perjuangan rakyat pekerja Tunisia jelas belum selesai.
Mereka masih harus memastikan elit-elit politik pendukung
Neoliberalisme tidak berada dalam kekuasaan. Tetapi terlepas dari
itu, rakyat pekerja di Tunisia mampu menunjukkan bahwa kekuatan massa
rakyat pekerja telah bisa memaksa rezim Neoliberal di Tunisia.
Maka dari itu, kami dari Perhimpunan Rakyat Pekerja menyatakan sikap:
Turut bersolidaritas atas perjuangan rakyat pekerja di Tunisia yang
mampu menggulingkan kekuasaan Neoliberal
Rakyat pekerja di Indonesia harus mampu menghimpun kekuatan politik
alternatif dari gerakan rakyat untuk menumbangkan rezim Neoliberal
dan sistem Neoliberalisme
Kapitalisme- Neoliberalisme gagal dalam mensejahterakan rakyat dan
hanya dengan SOSIALISME lah maka rakyat akan sejahtera
Jakarta, 18 Januari 2011
Komite
Pusat
Perhimpunan
Rakyat Pekerja
(KP-PRP)
--- On Wed, 1/19/11, sunny <[email protected]> wrote:
From: sunny <[email protected]>
Subject: [proletar] What next for Tunisia?
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 10:54 PM
Refleksi : Apa yang terjadi di Tunisia membuktikan bahwa sistem ekonomi
zakat tidak berlaku di abad modern.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1031/fr2.htm
13 - 19 January 2011
Issue No. 1031
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875
What next for Tunisia?
The riots that have shaken Tunisia and spread to Algeria over recent weeks have
sent shock waves across the Arab world
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In an attempt to quell the riots in Tunisia, President Zein Al-Abidine bin Ali
on Wednesday fired interior minister Rafiq Belhaj Qassem and ordered the
release of all detainees held in connection with the demonstrations that have
rocked the country since mid- December. And for the first time since the
unrest, army troops were deployed in the capital in the early hours of
Wednesday.
The rioting that has shaken Tunisia over recent weeks perhaps should not have
come as a surprise, but nevertheless to some it did.
More than two weeks into the escalating riots that have seen many of the
country's towns and cities turned into battle zones, the situation in the small
North African country appears to have spiralled almost out of control, with
human rights groups claiming that at least 35 people have died in the riots,
victims of live ammunition used by the police.
On Tuesday evening, the satellite television channel Al-Jazeera said the number
had increased to 53, citing local union sources.
Footage was shown on television stations worldwide on Tuesday showing images of
a demonstration in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzeid, in which hundreds of
Tunisians chanted "the people want a succession of power" and "the son of a
worker or farmer is stronger than you, slaughterer," in references to the
country's ruler, President Bin Ali.
What began as a small uprising following the despairing act of a 26-year-old
university graduate who set himself alight after local authorities confiscated
his fruit and vegetable cart in Sidi Bouzeid has quickly spread across the
country, with hundreds of thousands being quick to relate to the bitter taste
of unemployment and the high cost of living.
Tunisia's unemployment rate is officially 14 per cent, but the percentage of
graduates without work is estimated to be double that figure.
As the protests continued, the discontent took a political turn, with footage
circulating on the Internet of angry youths tearing down a banner of the
president in a scene previously unimaginable during his 23 years in power.
On Tuesday, the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights said that
it had received the names of 35 people killed in the riots. The death toll has
meant dozens of funerals, many of which have sparked further demonstrations and
further fuelled public anger.
For its part, the Tunisian government has said that those killed had been armed
with petrol bombs and had been attacking public property.
Despite the deployment of the country's 150,000 police to try to quell the
violence, the authorities announced the "indefinite" closure of the country's
schools and universities on Tuesday.
Tunisia's TAP news agency quoted the Education Ministry as saying the measure
was in order to investigate those responsible for inciting students, though
trade unionists, human rights activists and lawyers have also joined the
demonstrations.
In a televised speech on Monday, Bin Ali blamed the rioting on "gangs of
thugs", accusing those behind the rioting of committing acts of "terrorism".
The Tunisian president also promised to create 300,000 new jobs in an attempt
to address the country's unemployment problem.
Clashes had erupted on Monday in the towns of Kasserine, Thala and Regueb, and
according to the French news agency AFP, one union member shot in Sunday's
unrest later died of bullet wounds in hospital in Kasserine, 290 kilometres
south of the capital Tunis.
This hospital, under army control, was treating a "great number" of people
wounded in the demonstrations, it said.
The international human rights group Amnesty International warned in a
statement on Tuesday against more "arbitrary" arrests after Bin Ali's speech.
There are no available figures on the exact number of arrests made since the
riots began because of a media blackout imposed by the Tunisian authorities,
but in its statement Amnesty said that if those arrested had been responsible
for acts of violence, they must be charged with criminal offences.
"The Tunisian authorities must either press charges against those detained and
try them in fair proceedings or release them," it said.
An unidentified number of bloggers and activists have also been detained. The
international journalists group Reporters without Borders has said it had been
alerted that six bloggers and activists had been arrested following the riots,
or had disappeared.
The crackdown has included cyber activists, whose Facebook and gmail accounts
have been hacked, presumably by the Tunisian authorities. Three members of the
"Pirate Party", a local group advocating Internet freedom and fighting
censorship, have reportedly been arrested.
With the country currently under a news blackout, much of the information
coming from Tunisia has come via the Internet.
For the moment, there are few indicators as to where Tunisia's rioting is
heading. But demonstrations that erupted in the neighbouring country of Algeria
last week against surges in food prices were immediately compared to the
situation in Tunisia.
In Algeria, too, riots across the country have resulted in the deaths of three
and the injury of hundreds of others in clashes with police. The protests were
triggered by a rise in the cost of basic food items, including oil, sugar and
milk, which the government has now reversed in an attempt to quell the riots.
By Monday, the situation in Algeria appeared to be calmer, but the government
is still faced with serious challenges in dealing with the country's housing
crisis, also the reason for the protests.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Arab world, in Jordan the government slashed taxes
on fuel and foodstuffs on Tuesday in what was being seen as a pre-emptive move
after activists called for nationwide demonstrations on 14 January against
price rises and rising inflation rates.
Many observers have seen in the wave of protests a new form of dissent in the
Arab world. According to Lamis Andoni, a Jordanian analyst, the protests mark a
"rebirth of Arab activism".
In a comment published on aljazeera.net, Andoni said that the roots of the
Tunisian "uprising" lay in a "lethal combination of poverty, unemployment and
political repression: three characteristics of most Arab societies."
In Lebanon's Assafir newspaper, columnist Satei Noureddin said the events in
Tunisia and Algeria could lead to "real change" in the two countries.
He said that the events could also be carved "deeply" in the consciousness of
Lebanese, Egyptian, Syrian and Sudanese populations also suffering from similar
economic and political conditions.
On Tuesday, the Arab Programme for Human Rights Activists issued a statement in
solidarity with the demonstrations entitled, "Hunger riots: yesterday Tunisia,
today Algeria and Jordan, and the rest yet to come."
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