Jokowi Signs Work Creation Law, KASBI: Existence Of Anti-People's Regime

Mass action against the Job Creation Law on a Horse Statue, Tuesday, November 2 (Photo: Diah / VOI)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) 's move to sign the Job Creation Law despite many rejections from workers and students is seen as a form of the current government being anti-people.

Chairperson of the Confederation of the Indonesian Trade Union Alliance Congress (KASBI), Nining Elitos, said the Job Creation Law would result in oppression of workers and have the potential to damage the environment in the name of investment.

"The real manifestation of today's regime is anti-people, which provides more space for exploitation of humans and natural resources," Nining said when contacted by VOI, Tuesday, November 3.

He then asked the labor groups to keep pushing for the annulment of this law. He even said that workers would be ready to return to the streets to voice their aspirations on November 10.

This step, said Nining, is preferable to taking the legal route through the Judicial Review (JR) at the Constitutional Court (MK). "Let's continue to fight together to urge the cancellation," he said.

As previously reported, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) officially signed the Omnibus Law on the Job Creation Law which was passed by the DPR on October 5. The signing of this law was held on Monday, November 2 and promulgated in Law Number 11 of 2020.

The government has also officially uploaded a copy of this law via the jdih.setneg.go.id site. The number of pages in the Job Creation Law is 1,187 pages.

It is known that a number of demonstrations by workers and students against the ratification of the Job Creation Law have indeed occurred since this law was passed at the DPR Plenary Session some time ago.

In fact, the demonstration which took place on Thursday, October 8 was also chaotic because of the rioters who had joined the student group who at that time took to the streets to voice their aspirations.

Labor and student groups rejected it for a number of reasons. Apart from being deemed to be detrimental to workers by regulating the labor cluster in the law, the Job Creation Law has been under the spotlight because it is considered to have been carried out in a hurry and closed in discussion even though this has been denied compactly by the government and the legislature.

Furthermore, the government will issue 35 Government Regulations (PP) and five Presidential Regulations (Perpres) as derivative rules of this legislation.