Labor Party Registers With KPU Tomorrow With Working Class Carnival

President of the Labor Party Said Iqbal when met in front of the DPR/MPR/DPD RI Building, Senayan, Jakarta/DOK ANTARA/Walda Marison/aa.

JAKARTA - The Labor Party under the leadership of Said Iqbal said it was ready to register as participants in the 2024 General Election to the General Elections Commission (KPU) on Friday (12/8) by conducting a long march for the working class carnival.

"Before being at the KPU, it was preceded by a long march on foot, or we call it the working class carnaval or the working class of carnaval," said Labor Party President Said Iqbal in an online press conference reported by ANTARA, Thursday, August 11.

Said explained, before the Labor Party registers with the KPU on Friday at 13.00 WIB, the Labor Party group will first gather at the Proclamation Monument at 10.00 WIB, then walk together to the KPU. It is estimated that they will arrive at the KPU at 11.30 WIB, then Friday prayers will be held together.

The working class carnival will be attended by around 10,000 workers from various professional backgrounds, ranging from farm laborers, fishermen, traders, temporary workers, urban poor, domestic workers (PRT), online motorcycle taxis, migrant workers, disabled workers, traders, advocates. , to students.

In addition, factory workers will also wear their respective factory uniforms, becak drivers will bring their becaks, online motorcycle taxis will push their motorbikes, vegetable sellers will carry their vegetable carts, domestic workers will carry giant napkins and so on.

Around 34 pairs of millennials or Generation Z who are children of workers, said Iqbal, will also wear traditional clothes from 34 provinces in Indonesia.

Said said the carnival was not merely ceremonial, but signaled the rise of the working class as the Labor Party was revived after 20 years to contest the 2024 general election.

"So, the initiator of the Labor Party is complete, starting from farm laborers, fishermen, urban poor, to formal sector migrant workers," he said.

It was also explained that the Labor Party was resurrected by 11 further initiating organizations from a number of worker/labor confederations and alliances in Indonesia, namely the previous management of the Labor Party, the Federation of Indonesian Metal Workers Union (FSPMI), the Confederation of Indonesian Workers Union (KSPI), the Indonesian People's Organization (ORI). ), and the Confederation of Indonesian Workers' Union (KPBI).

Other organizations are the Confederation of Indonesian Prosperous Labor Unions (KSBSI), the Indonesian Peasants' Union (SPI), the Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining, Oil, Gas and General Workers Unions (FSP KEP), the Federation of Pharmaceutical and Health Workers Unions Reform (FSP Farkes). ), the Indonesian Honorary Educator and Staff Forum (FPTHSI), and the Women of Light Indonesia organization (BELIEF).

Previously, on Wednesday (10/8), four political parties registered with the KPU, namely PSI, PAN, Golkar, and PPP. Meanwhile, PAN, Golkar, and PPP were present at the same time registering with the KPU as political parties that are members of the United Indonesia Coalition (KIB).

The KPU stated that 17 of the 22 political parties that registered had complete documents and could be registered as political parties (political parties) as candidates for the 2024 General Election.