Don’t avoid, the president must face us

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The Vice President of the Confederation of Indonesian Workers’ Unions (KPBI) Jumisih regretted the working visit of President Joko Widodo to Central Kalimantan when workers held a demonstration against the Employment Creation Law.

Jumisih accused President Jokowi of avoiding work.

“The president is avoiding, no nice yes. You have to confront us who want to meet, ”Jumisih told Kompas.com on Thursday (8/10/2020).

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Jumisih said, it was at this time that President Jokowi should have listened to the aspirations of the people.

According to him, even work visits to the regions could be postponed due to the urgent demands of some elements of society.

“He said that the president was from the people, he said he wanted to hear the aspirations of the people, he said that to be president of the people, it must be done (to know the workers),” Jumisih said.

It is known that the Presidential Palace in Jakarta will be the site of demonstrations by various elements of society that reject the Employment Creation Law.

This demonstration is the culmination of a wave of community protests following the approval of the Employment Creation Law through a plenary session in the Indonesian Parliament, on Monday (10/5/2020).

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Not only in the center of power, there was also a wave of demonstrations in almost all regions.

They rejected it because there were many regulations in the Employment Creation Law that were considered to take away people’s rights, including labor elements.

For example, the abolition of a particular working time (PKWT) agreement, which is seen as increasingly massive to enforce contract work.