This Is The Fate Of Sritex Workers After The Inkrah Bankrupt Decision

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JAKARTA - The Supreme Court (MA) rejected the appeal of PT Sri Rejeki Isman Tbk (Sritex) on the bankruptcy decision of the Semarang Commercial Court.

Thus, Sritex's bankruptcy status has permanent legal force (inkrah).

Sritex Group Workers Union Coordinator Slamet Kaswanto said that his party as a Sritex Group worker who was directly affected by the Supreme Court's cassation decision felt unfair to the decision.

"We want to be able to work calmly like we used to, we want the business to be maintained. Because the welfare of workers can only be obtained if workers have jobs, work and receive wages, not how much severance pay if this bankruptcy is done and asset management is carried out by the curator," he said in a statement to the media quoted on Tuesday, December 24.

He said the Sritex Group bankruptcy decision had been decided by the Commercial Court at the Semarang District Court, when the Sritex Group factory was still producing and active normally.

"Of course, this is very encouraging for us, the Sritex Group workers. The fall of the Semarang District Court's decision made our fate covered by dark clouds. We can't imagine what will happen to us if we have to face layoffs at our place of work and work for decades," he explained.

Slamet admitted that his party had consolidated and accommodated the aspirations of all Sritex Group workers who wanted the government to be present in real terms in resolving the polemic of Sritex's bankruptcy problems.

"There is no justice for us workers who are the lower class of society," he said

As the leader of the trade union, continued Slamet, his party also wants to participate in preventing social turmoil if there is no immediate certainty of work for 15,000 Sritex group workers who are directly affected by this bankruptcy, as well as 50,000 other people who were indirectly affected.

This number does not include MSMEs, related communities, educational institutions and the surrounding community who will definitely feel the impact if the Sritex factory is actually closed and all of its assets are auctioned by the curator.

"We believe that entrepreneurs and management are still able to operate this factory for the sustainability of the work of employees and companies. We really need the government's handover to free the Sritex Group from bankruptcy," said Slamet.