Trade Unions And Students Join The Demonstration In Front Of The DPR Building

Masses of workers and students hold a demonstration in front of the DPR building/PHOTO: Nailin In Saroh-VOI

JAKARTA - Masses from the Congress of the Indonesian Trade Union Alliance (KASBI) and students gathered in front of the DPR building.

Originally, the demonstration started at 10.00 WIB, but the masses only gathered around 15.00 WIB in front of the DPR building.

"Come on, our friends, gather in front of the DPR building. Let's open our action," said the coordinator of the action, Thursday, April 21.

The masses then sang the anthem Indonesia Raya as a sign of opening the action.

In this demonstration, they brought 10 demands, namely:

1. Stop discussing the unconstitutional job creation law and stop efforts to revise the law for the formation of the statutory regulations.

2. Stop criminalizing the people's movement and solve human rights violations.

3. Lower prices (fuel, cooking oil, PDAM, electricity, fertilizer, VAT and toll roads).

4. Arrest, prosecute, imprison, and impoverish all corrupt perpetrators.

5. Redistribution of national wealth (providing social security for education, health, housing, public facilities, and free food for the community).

6. Pass the Domestic Work Law and provide protection for migrant workers.

7. Realize true agrarian reform and stop the deprivation of agrarian resources

8. Reject the postponement of the election and the extension of the term of office of the president.

9. Provide access to the widest possible public participation in the planned revision of the National Education System Law.

10. Reject the revision of Law Number 21 of 2000 concerning Trade Unions.