Rejecting Job Creation Perppu, Thousand Laborors Will Ask Merdeka Palace On January 14

President of the Labor Party Said Iqbal. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Tens of thousands of people who are members of the Labor Party, Labor Union, and Farmers' Union will hold a demonstration in front of the State Palace. This action is a form of rejection of the Government Regulation in Lieu of the Law (Perppu) on Job Creation.

This action will be held on Saturday, January 14, 2023, in front of the Merdeka Palace, Central Jakarta.

Labor Party President Said Iqbal said the action would start at 9.30 to 12.00 WIB. Where the mass action came from Jabodetabek, Serang, Cilegon, Karawang, Purwakarta, and West Bandung.

"The number of participants participating in the action is estimated at more than 10 thousand people," said Said Iqbal, at a press conference, Monday, January 9.

Simultaneously, said Iqbal, the action will also be carried out in several industrial cities. Among others in Bandung-West Java; Semarang-Central Java; and Surabaya-East Java.

In addition, he continued, the action was also carried out in Banda Aceh-Aceh; Medan-North Sumatra; Palembang-South Sumatra; Bengkulu; Batam; Riau Islands; Balikpapan-East Kalimantan; and Banjarmasin-South Kalimantan.

"Including Ternate-North Maluku; Mataran-NTB; Makassar-South Sulawesi; Palu-Central Sulawesi; Gorontalo, and several other cities including Papua, Eastern Indonesia," he said.

Iqbal said the issue raised in the action was to focus on rejection or disagree with the contents of Perppu No. 2 of 2022 concerning Job Creation.

"This action raises one issue, namely rejecting or disagreeing with the contents of Perppu No. 2 of 2022 concerning Job Creation," said Said Iqbal.

Iqbal said, there are nine core problems in the Job Creation Perppu. The nine issues are related to minimum wage arrangements, outsourced arrangements, severance pay arrangements, contract labor arrangements, layoff arrangements, TKA arrangements, criminal sanctions arrangements, work time arrangements, and leave arrangements.

According to Iqbal, after participating in the demonstration, the protesters will gather at Sport Mall Kelapa Gading to participate in the Labor Party's Juang Blood Declaration as well as the opening of the Labor Party National Working Meeting.

"Where in this event we will consolidate and reaffirm the workers' resistance to the contents of the Job Creation Perppu," he said.