Contents Of The Audience For Demo Mass Representatives And DPR Leaders, From Demands To Invitations For The Labor Party And Student Party To Participate In The 2024 Election

Mass Action Audience and DPR leadership. Photo: Nailin In Saroh/VOI

JAKARTA - The DPR leadership received 15 representatives from the mass demonstration at the DPR RI Building, Thursday, April 21. Dozens of representatives of workers and students held an audience with Deputy Speakers of the House of Representatives, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad and Rahmat Gobel.

"So, friends from GEBRAK and AMI, the trade unions conveyed several points of aspiration that were submitted to the DPR. We as the leaders of the DPR accepted these aspirations," said Dasco after receiving an audience at Nusantara III Building, Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Thursday, April 21. The mass representatives conveyed their demands related to the issue of people's welfare and criticism of a number of laws that were discussed in the DPR.

"There are several things that we discuss with our friends for our input to the DPR," continued Dasco.

So, what are the details of the discussion in the hearing which lasted less than an hour? Chairperson of the Indonesian Trade Union Alliance (KASBI) Congress, Nining Elitos, asked that discussion of the revision of the Law on the Establishment of Legislation (UU P3) be stopped.

"First, it is talking about the revision of the law which was the initiative of the DPR, namely the revision of the P3 Law, where we should see that this has a strong indication of its connection with the omnibus law of the job creation law and also wants to see how in the future we want to smooth out various kinds of regulations that only prioritize the interests of a few people. ," explained Nining at the hearing.

"So we urge the DPR to stop discussing the revision of the P3 Law," he continued.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Confederation of Indonesian Workers' Union (KPBI) Ilhamsyah, expressed his rejection of Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation. Because, workers feel the bad impact of the Act.

"The situation of economic inequality is so high today. What we want to say is that our rejection of the omnibus law has found a bright spot. The most obvious practice of the omnibus law is wages. Wages through the Job Creation Law are the worst wages in the history of wages. in Indonesia. The increase in wages in 2022 because it refers to the Job Creation Law is only 0.9 percent in a number of areas does not increase," said Ilhamsyah.

"We once again say that please stop. Listen to the voice of the people. The people have already felt the impact of the Job Creation Act," he added.

Meanwhile, the Student Federation Representative, Cyntia, highlighted the issue of implementing field work practices (PKL) by students without wages.

"In street vendors, for example. We work without pay, it's a system that stipulates that students may even be in students to get used to working, such as the Merdeka Learning (program) which stigmatizes students from an early age to get used to that we work voluntarily that the most important thing is the value (profit)," said Cyntia. She also highlighted the omnibus law of the Job Creation Law which had an impact on the incomes of the parents of students so that they were not sufficient to pay for their needs, including school fees.

"Then on the other hand, liberalization (education) is like a very expensive school. Starting from the parents of the students at that school being affected by the omnibus law regulation and then they don't have enough money to pay for all their needs," he continued. the demands submitted by the protesters were then forwarded to the government. However, regarding the P3 Law, Dasco added, the protesters were late in expressing their aspirations. The reason is, the P3 Law has been decided in the Plenary Meeting as a proposal from the DPR.

"Friends are a bit late in conveying their aspirations. The P3 Law has been discussed, the performance of the reading after the meeting was decided with the government yesterday. However, from this discussion about the omnibus law, we will open space later for friends to always communicate, because we don't know what the omnibus will be. what will be done with the law in the DPR," said Dasco. DPR Leader Invites Labor Party and Student Party to Participate in 2024 Election During the hearing, Deputy Chairperson of the DPR RI Sufmi Dasco Ahmad also welcomed the Labor Party and Indonesian Student Party in the Indonesian political arena. The daily chairman of the Gerindra Party DPP said the Indonesian Student Party was legal at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham).

"A new party has been born, there is the Labor Party. Then there is the Indonesian Student Party. It is legal in the Department of Law and Human Rights. We welcome you," said Dasco.

Dasco also invited the party which had just received the Decree from the Ministry of Law and Human Rights to compete in the 2024 Simultaneous Election contestation. He hoped that they could fight for the rights of the people together with the party which had an office in Senayan.

"The Indonesian Student Party, I have checked, it is true that it has passed the Kumham (Kemenkumham), it's just a matter of verification for the election. With so many students, we should be able to jointly win seats in the DPR fighting for student aspirations," said Dasco. Look for a seat in the DPR that together can fight for your rights with us," he added.

Dasco encouraged the cadres of the Indonesian Student Party to be able to get a lot of votes so that they could pass to the parliament.

"It's the same with students, with millions of students, you can't get 20 seats, so we together in parliament fight for what must be fought for for the nation and state," he concluded.