Chinese Workers Etc. Enter Indonesia Using Chartered Aircraft, KSPI: Here Workers Are Not Homecoming And Can Not THR

JAKARTA - The Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) regrets the attitude of elite officials in Indonesia who are silent on the influx of hundreds of foreign workers during Lebaran using chartered aircraft.

KSPI President Said Iqbal said this love hurts the sense of justice of Indonesian workers who can not go home to let go of longing with their families, even some workers have not received holiday benefits and tens of thousands more have been homeless due to the pandemic.

"Foreign workers again received the red carpet. Clearly, this is very hurtful to the sense of justice of Indonesian workers," said Said Iqbal in his statement in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Monday, May 17.

He assessed the permit given by elite officials to the presence of foreign workers during Lebaran towards insensitiveness, because at the same time the government prohibits its citizens to go home.

"There is a displeasure among officials that seems to apply only to the seals on the city's borders. Whereas homecoming workers do not use chartered planes, but buy their own gasoline motors and eat when some of their THR money is not paid in full by employers," said Said.

KSPI expressly rejected the arrival of foreign workers who became rough laborers in the construction, trade, steel, textile, nickel mining, and other industries, because the job position could recruit local Indonesian workers.

The enactment of the ombibus law of the Copyright Act makes foreign workers immune to the law because currently rough workers who enter Indonesia no longer need written permission from the minister, but enough from foreign labor service users to report their arrival plans.

The arrival of foreign workers from China and India, said Said, confirms the fact that the omnibus law facilitates the influx of foreign workers that threaten local jobs.

"We urge the government to be fair, enforce the rules, and show its impartiality towards the national interests of local workers, not foreign workers," he said.