Former Law Office Employee In South Jakarta Demands Unpaid Food Money For 3.5 Years

South Jakarta Metro Police/ Photo: Jehan/VOI

JAKARTA - Yuma's attempt to regain his diploma which was detained by the boss of the South Jakarta law office with the initials IF bear fruit. After struggling for four years to report his former boss to the South Jakarta Metro Police, Yuma's diploma has now been returned. However, Yuma considers the return of the diploma not a form of good faith from the reported party.

According to him, the reported returned the diploma because he was afraid and panicked. Moreover, the cases he reported have been raised to the level of investigation.

"He (IF) two weeks ago, because he was afraid and panicked, he was in a hurry to hand over his diploma to me," Yuma told reporters at the South Jakarta Metro Police, Tuesday, March 7.

"At this time, we have reached the investigation stage. We have been absent from the police twice, where the next stage is forced pick-up," he added.

Yuma also said that her diploma was made indiscriminately by her former boss. He explained that the diploma was not returned directly by IF or HRD staff, but was entrusted to an office boy.

"It handed him over unethical and disrespectful, the one who gave the diploma was the office boy named R, his HRD staff should have handed it over," he said.

Therefore, he admitted that he had not planned to withdraw the police report against IF even though he had received his diploma back.

"I myself have no plans to withdraw my report, because this diploma is not all from my rights that I demand," said Yuma.

Another rights that Yuma demands are overtime wages for 3.5 years and her last salary while still working.

"If I use a labor calculation involving interest and fines, that's my calculation on paper after I consulted with the Manpower Office, yes, it was above Rp. 2.5 billion for 3.5 years," he said.

He reminded IF to fulfill their rights and return the diplomas of the other victims who are still being held.

"All my rights were returned, and all the diplomas from other victims were also returned, which to my knowledge amounted to tens," concluded Yuma.

Previously, the boss of a law office in South Jakarta was reported by three former employees to the police regarding the alleged embezzlement of diplomas.

The report has been submitted to the South Jakarta Metro Police since 2019 and the case is still rolling today.

The three reporters in this diploma embezzlement case are Yuma, IL, and AS.

Yuma Karim came alone to the South Jakarta Metro Police. Meanwhile, IL and AS were accompanied by their attorneys.

The lawyer for the reporter from LBH Legal Aid House, Amsori, said the reported party in this case was named Ike Farida, who is the boss of the Farida Law Office.

He said that Yuma's report had gone up to the investigation level.

"Two more reports are still in the investigation stage," Amsori told reporters at the South Jakarta Metro Police, Thursday (9/2/2023).

Amsori explained that the complainants fulfilled the investigator's summons to undergo additional examinations.

"So today's agenda, we went to the investigators in order to add additional examination minutes related to several witnesses, which took a long time from 2019," he said.

He revealed that the reported party did not return and detained the employee's diploma, which had resigned from the company.

As a result, he continued, the victim had difficulty finding work in other companies.

"Therefore, it has resulted in our client being harmed in terms of finding jobs so that several company offices have asked for his diploma to be detained until now," said Amsori.

Meanwhile, Yuma revealed a number of alleged labor violations by Farida Law Office.

He said the employees were told to work beyond the time limit set in the Specific Time Work Agreement (PKWT).

"So you see, Ike Farida, we suspect that her working culture is above average, beyond the agreement. Then we are all told to go home according to the agreement, we have to work more than working hours, even on holidays," said Yuma.

"Then you don't necessarily get overtime wages. Even if you get overtime wages, it's really far below the law, like that. Therefore, it's an indirect form of exploitation," he added.

In fact, continued Yuma, some employees were even summoned and reported to the police on fabricated charges.

"There were also victims who were even reported by the police, instead they were subpoenaed to their parents," he said.

On the other hand, Amsori appealed to former Farida Law Office employees who had experienced a similar fate not to hesitate to report.

They can call Amsori's phone number at 08128110165 if they need legal assistance