KSPI President Said Iqbal Calls For Workers To Strike A National Workforce If The Omnibus Law Is Not Canceled

President of KSPI Said Iqbal in the middle of a demonstration at the Horse Statue area of Central Jakarta, Monday, November 2 (Photo: Wardhany Tsa Tsia / VOI)

JAKARTA - The President of the Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI) Said Iqbal has called for a national labor strike plan if the government and DPR do not cancel the Omnibus Law on the Job Creation Law, especially the Labor Cluster.

Said Iqbal conveyed this call in an action against the Work Creation Law held by labor unions that are members of the KSPI, KSPSI AGN, and Gekanas in the Arjuna Wiwaha Horse Statue area, Central Jakarta.

"If the government does not cancel the Omnibus Law, I would like to call for a national strike by workers to be carried out all over Indonesia," Iqbal said on top of the command car, Monday, November 2.

Initially, Said Iqbal said that his party would issue official instructions. Its contents, ask the head of the work unit (PUK) of workers in each factory to negotiate with the company leadership to agree to reject the Job Creation Law and increase the drinking wage in 2021.

"We will issue official instructions, not using fear, asking to negotiate on wages. This is in accordance with Law Number 13 of 2003 (Concerning Manpower)," said Said Iqbal.

Said Iqbal gave instructions for the negotiations to be carried out for two weeks. If in two weeks there is no agreement, then the condition is a deadlock.

"If the deadlock is dead, we ask PUL throughout Indonesia to make a notification letter to strike all over Indonesia," said Iqbal.

Said Iqbal estimates that a national strike will be carried out in 10 thousand companies spread across Indonesia. The effect of the strike is a halt to production in factories.

"You can imagine if 10 thousand companies, an average of two hundred people, then there are 2 million workers who go on a national strike against the Job Creation Law. That will cripple production in factories and companies," he concluded.