The Demonstration Against The Job Creation Law Is Chaotic, Gatot Nurmantyo: As A Result Of The DPR And President Abai

Illustration / Demo in Jakarta, Thursday, October 8 (Diah Ayu W / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Presidium of the Coalition for Action to Save Indonesia (WE) Gatot Nurmantyo regretted the clashes that occurred during demonstrations against the Job Creation Law in a number of areas.

Gatot said the action that ended in chaos was the impact of the attitude of the DPR and President Joko Widodo who ignored the aspirations of workers, students, academics, community organizations, religious leaders, and NGOs who refused to ratify the Omnibus Law.

"The action that took place today is actually a result of the DPR and President's decision to ignore, pay no attention to aspirations, and continue to insist on deciding and ratifying the Omibus Law Bill," said Gatot in a statement quoted by VOI , Friday, October 9.

Seeing the reaction to the rejection of the massive Job Creation Law in various parts of Indonesia, Gatot views Jokowi as the head of government and does not shy away from himself and opens the widest possible space for dialogue.

Gatot also regretted the repressive attitude of the police officers who took action against the protesters who rejected the Job Creation Law yesterday by arresting a number of people and often firing tear gas at the protesters.

"It should be emphasized that the task of the apparatus is to serve, protect, protect and regulate the community, not to prohibit people's activities, because in fact the apparatus receives salaries and food from the people's money every month," said Gatot.

"Therefore WE condemn all acts of violence and brutality committed by the authorities against workers, students, students and women who are fighting for their constitutional rights," he continued.

Previously, Din Syamsuddin also wrote an open letter to President Joko Widodo. One of the things mentioned in the open letter was the ratification of the Omnibus Law on Job Creation which was deemed to cause uproar at the national level.

"The tendency of the Government and the DPR to pass bills to become laws such as the Minerba Law, the Perppu which is being accelerated into the Finance Law for Countering COVID-19, the Ciptaker Law or the Ciptaker Omnibus Law has the potential to cause huge national upheaval," said Din.

The attitude of the government and the DPR who rushed through this controversial law is also considered to have left no room for the public to give aspirations to the community. However, this did not only happen in the enactment of the Job Creation Law, according to Din, the government was also arrogant to defend the Pancasila Ideology Policy Bill (HIP) even though it had been sued by many organizations.

"We cannot understand whether the government really wants to create noise or on the contrary, wants to encourage the uproar itself," said Din.