Reject The Job Creation Law, West Sulawesi Students Occupy The DPRD Plenary Room

An alliance of youth and students occupies the plenary room of the West Sulawesi Provincial DPRD (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - An alliance of youth and students occupies the plenary room of the West Sulawesi Provincial DPRD regarding the action against the Job Creation Law (UU) that has been passed by the DPR.

Hundreds of youth alliances belonging to the Indonesian Youth Struggle Front (FPPI) Mamuju City, PMII Mamuju Branch and HMI Mamuju Branch as well as a number of student organizations from various campuses in Mamuju held demonstrations asking for the Law on Employment to be repealed in Mamuju, Monday.

In the action the mass of youths and students carried out a convoy from the Ahmad Kirang Mamuju field hall to the West Sulawesi Provincial DPRD office.

The mass of youth and students then surrounded and occupied the plenary room of the West Sulawesi DPRD. The mass was then received by the Chairman of the DPRD of West Sulawesi, Suraida Suhardi Duka for a dialogue.

The head of FPPI Mamuju, Muhammad Suyuti, said that FPPI Mamuju had conducted studies, read, examined, examined the substance of the Job Creation Law.

According to him, the Law is considered to be impartial to the community and only benefits investors and entrepreneurs, so that the Law must be repealed and canceled by the government together with the DPR.

"The actions we are carrying out are peaceful and orderly and do not carry out anarchist actions that can injure democracy, and what we demand is the interests of the people of the nation and state," he said as quoted by Antara , Monday, October 12.

Meanwhile, the chairman of DPRD Sulbar Suraida Suhardi Duka also stated that his party also refused to pass the Job Creation Law and asked that it be canceled.

"The public rejects the Omnibus Law Law which has been passed by the DPR, because it causes demonstrations everywhere, is rejected by the wider community, so we also ask the government to replace the Omnibus Law Law with a regulation that replaces the Law (Perpu)," said Suraida.