Workers' Demonstration In Front Of The DPR Building Is Noisy, The Crowd Does Not Accept The Police To Install A Barbed Fence

Labor demonstration in front of the Indonesian Parliament Building in chaos/ Photo: Rizky Sulistio/ VOI

JAKARTA - Refusing to have a barbed wire fence in front of the gates of the DPR-MPR RI Building, a number of workers got into a fistfight with the police officers who were guarding the area on Wednesday, June 15, afternoon.

The riot occurred when the mass of action arrived in front of the DPR building, at around 10.40 WIB.

When they were just about to demonstrate, the masses objected because there was razor wire installed in front of the DPR building.

Using a commando car, they forced to dismantle the razor wire. Then, a number of protesters and the police were involved in a fistfight in front of razor wire.

There were several police personnel who even fell and were hit by razor wire.

Meanwhile, the police then led a number of protesters to the left of the DPR/MPR Building. There were five demonstrators who were led by wearing black and orange organizational uniforms.

The police immediately called out that the demonstrators had no right to protest at that location.

"Please calm down," said the police using loudspeakers in front of the DPR/MPR RI Building.

Meanwhile, Central Jakarta Metro Police Chief Kombes Komarudin did not respond when VOI confirmed the riot incident at the DPR-MPR RI Building, Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta.

Previously, tens of thousands of workers would take action simultaneously in various regions in Indonesia today, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Ten thousand workers would be concentrated in the House of Representatives (DPR) Building.

The President of the Labor Party, Said Iqbal, said the action would be carried out in industrial cities such as Bandung, Makassar, Banjarmasin, Banda Aceh, Medan, Batam, Semarang, Surabaya, Ternate, Ambon, and several other industrial cities.

"In Jakarta, the action on June 15 will be centered in the DPRI RI involving nearly 10 thousand workers," Said said in his statement, Wednesday, June 15.

Said conveyed that this labor action would bring five demands to the DPR. First, rejecting the revision of the PPP Law. Second, rejecting the omnibus law of the Job Creation Law, thirdly rejecting the 75-day campaign period, but it must be 9 months of a law. Fourth, ratify the PPRT Bill. Fifth, reject the liberalization of agriculture through the WTO.