Celebrating May Day Fiesta, Workers Wearing 'Labor Party' T-shirts Start Crowding GBK

Action participants started arriving at GBK (Wardhany Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Labor Party together with the labor unions held a May Day Fiesta at Gelora Bung Karno (GBK), Senayan, Jakarta, Saturday, May 14. The participants of the activity have started to throng this area.

Based on VOI's monitoring at around 10:00 WIB, the mass of workers, mostly wearing orange T-shirts, began to fill the GBK area. Their shirts had the words 'Labor Party' written on them.

As for the traffic situation, it can be seen from the GBK Archery Gate, buses have started to fill the location and there are activities to raise and lower workers. Police officers are also seen trying to regulate the streets so that there is no congestion.

Regarding the May Day Fiesta at GBK today, the police said that five doors were opened and divided into three rings.

"In GBK itself, we are doing 3 rings, 3 rings, 2 rings, 1 ring and deep. Where ring 3 will be accessed to Gelora Bung Karno, there are 12 entrances where there are only 5 doors that we open, " said the Head of Central Jakarta Police, Kombes Komarudin at GBK Senayan, Saturday, May 14.

Komarudin said the five doors that were opened were doors 1, 7 and 8. Meanwhile, doors 10 and 5 would be opened as spare doors.

"Doors 1.7, 8.

Action participants started arriving at GBK (Wardhany Tsa Tsia/VOI)

Ditlantas Polda Metro has also been distributed at several points to help the masses of workers who want to get information. Including information about the parking space that has been provided.

"And we hope that our officers, which we have dispatched, from the traffic directorate as well as personal personnel who will later assist, will direct our fellow laborers to occupy the parking bags that we have prepared," he explained.

Not only that, the entrance for buses carrying workers is also arranged in such a way. Masses of workers from eastern regions such as Karawang to Bandung are directed to enter door 10 and can park in the East Parking.

As for the masses from the west, such as Tangerang, they are directed to park in the West Plaza area.

"Of course, today is meant so that all activities can run smoothly, and our labor brothers can come back later and have no trouble finding a vehicle," he said.

Previously, Labor Party President Said Iqbal said there were two activities that the Labor Party and the Indonesian Labor Movement would carry out today. First, at around 10.00 WIB – 12.00 WIB, a demonstration was held at the DPR RI.

Second, at 13.00 WIB – 17.30 WIB in the form of May Day Fiesta at GBK. "This activity is a series of May Day commemorations. On May 1 we also held an action at the KPU which was followed by the May Day Fiesta at the Usmar Ismail Film Building," Said Iqbal said in a written statement.

18 Demands of the Labor Party and the Indonesian Labor Movement:

1. Reject the Omnibus law on the Job Creation Law; 2. Lower prices for basic commodities (cooking oil, meat, flour, eggs, etc.), fuel and gas; 3. Pass the PPRT Bill, reject the revision of the PPP Law, reject the revision of the SP/SB Law; 4. Reject low wages; 5. Remove outsourcing;6. Reject the increase in VAT tax;7. Validate the RPP for the Protection of ABK and Migrant Workers; 8. Refuse to reduce PBI Health Insurance participants; 9. Realize food sovereignty and agrarian reform; 10. Stop criminalizing farmers; 11. Low tuition fees and free 15 years of compulsory education; 12. Appoint teachers and honorary staff to become civil servants; 13. Empowerment of the informal sector;14. Ratification of ILO Conversion No. 190 on the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work;15. Ojol drivers are workers, not partners whose work relationships are not clear;16. Carry out the elections on February 14, 2024 in a fair manner and without money politics; 17. Fair redistribution of wealth by adding social security programs (food security, housing, unemployment, education, and clean water); and18. There should be no hungry people in a rich country.