Hiring 100 Thousand Outsourcing, KSPI: PLN Makes Slave Workers In The Modern Era

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. PLN)

JAKARTA - The Confederation of Indonesian Workers' Unions (KSPI) has highlighted that the State Electricity Company (Persero) or PLN still employs nearly 100 thousand outsourced (contracted) workers throughout Indonesia. With this amount, this state-owned company became the king of outsourcing.

KSPI President Said Iqbal said the government does not need to go far to fix outsourcing in private sector companies or private companies. This is because the large number of outsourcing workers at PLN explains that the king of outsourcing in Indonesia is in BUMN.

Furthermore, Iqbal also questioned the government's attitude, which for some time has continued to inject state capital into several state-owned enterprises, including PLN. However, the company instead applies a modern slavery scheme to its outsourced workers.

"How is it possible that the state, which is ordered by the constitution, protects all the blood of its citizens to get a job, a decent living, equality in law, but the state through state companies called BUMN, especially PLN, makes their work as slaves in the modern era," he said in a statement. press conference virtually, Thursday, June 10.

Iqbal said that when the SOE Ministry was under the leadership of Dahlan Iskan, it agreed with Commission IX to appoint PLN outsourcing workers as permanent employees of the subsidiary.

"The status of the employment relationship of the workers in the PLN subsidiary is the status of the permanent worker relationship. Thus, because he is a permanent worker at the PLN subsidiary, he has the same rights and obligations as permanent workers at his parent company at PLN," he said.

Furthermore, Iqbal said PLN at that time also employed contract or non-permanent employees. However, with the record that these contract workers have a maximum contract period of 5 years with an extension period of 3 times, and after that they are appointed as permanent workers.

"Now everything is gone. There are no more outsourced workers," he explained.