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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Confederation of Indonesian Workers’ Unions (KSPI) claims that millions of workers are willing to go on a national strike as a form of rejection of the blanket law on the job creation bill. It is scheduled to take place over three consecutive days, beginning on October 6, 2020 and ending in the plenary session for discussion of the Job Creation Bill on October 8, 2020.
“In the national strike, we will stop the production process. In which the workers will leave the place of production and meet at the place determined by each union at the company level,” said the president of the Confederation of Indonesian Workers’ Unions (KSPI), Said Iqbal in a statement. official, Monday (9/28).
This national strike for production stoppage will be followed by approximately 5 million workers in thousands of companies in 25 provinces and 300 districts / cities. It involves several industrial sectors such as chemical, energy, mining, textile, clothing, footwear, automotive and components, electronics and components, steel, pharmaceutical and health, printing and publishing, tourism industry, cement industry, telecommunications, transport workers, port workers, logistics, banking and others.
The national strike was carried out because dozens of leaders of the Confederation and the Federation of Trade Unions had accepted it. In addition to the KSPI, there is also the KSPSI AGN, as well as representatives of 32 union federations.
Among them are several federations that are members of the KSPSI led by Yorrys as SP LEM. This includes union alliances such as GEKANAS (National Welfare Movement), which has 17 members.
“The constitutional basis for this national strike is to use two laws, namely Law No. 9 of 1998 on the freedom to express opinions in public (demonstrations) and Law No. 13 of 2003 on labor. Workers, for Of course, they will follow the procedures of the two laws. The law, “he continued.
This national strike was carried out as a form of protest by Indonesian workers against the deliberation of the Job Creation Bill, which was deemed more beneficial to employers. For example, the free use of hired labor and subcontracting in all types of work and without a time limit, the elimination of the UMSK and the reduction of the value of severance pay.
“From the beginning we asked that the minimum protection for workers in Law No. 13 of 2003 on Manpower not be reduced. But the truth is that the omnibus law reduces the labor rights that exist in the current law, ”said Iqbal.
As a national pre-strike, Indonesian workers are also planning to hold daily demonstrations, the implementation of which is scheduled to start from September 29 to October 8, 2020. In addition, along with other elements, workers will also carry out simultaneous national actions throughout Indonesia that are scheduled for this date. October 1 and October 8.
In the capital city, the targets of labor action are the State Palace, the Office of the Coordinating Minister of Economy, the Office of the Minister of Labor and the Indonesian Parliament. Meanwhile, in the regions, action will focus on the Governor’s office or the local DPRD.
“When the actions we carry out are not responded to, the culmination is that we will carry out a national strike that will take place simultaneously throughout Indonesia as we have explained above,” he said.
Simultaneously, during the plenary session to ratify the Job Creation Bill on October 8, 2020, in addition to a national strike that halted the production process at the factory level, tens of thousands of workers across Java will also hold demonstrations in the DPR RI building during the plenary session.
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