Jakarta, April 30 (ANTARA) - Tens of thousands of workers will take to the streets in the capital city of Jakarta on Saturday and Monday to observe International Workers' Day and to demand better pay and improved welfare.
The Jakarta Regional Police said about 10,000 workers would stage rallies on Saturday while the Confederation of All Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPSI) disclosed that it would hold rallies on Monday with about 40,000 demonstrators.
In the face of the demonstrations, the Jakarta Police will mobilize about 15,000 personnel to maintain security and public order during the rallies.
"We have predicted that about 10,000 workers till take to the streets to observe International Workers' Day. We base our calculation on the numbers mentioned in reports from various elements of the public to the Jakarta Police," Jakarta Police spokesman Snr Com Boy Rafli Amar said on Friday.
He said there were 16 elements of the public planning to hold rallies in Jakarta on Labor Day on Saturday. They consisted of company employees and industrial workers.
On the other hand the KSPSI said it will not hold rallies on Saturday but on Monday. It will demonstrate outside the Parliament building to reject the government's plan to raise power prices.
"We will not hold the rally on May Day (Saturday) but on Monday. We will mobilize around 40,000 workers," KSPSI acting chairman Mathias Tambing said.
He said usually workers held their rallies on International Workers' Day (May Day) on May 1, but this year the rallies would be held on Monday because May 1 coincided a holiday, Tambing said.
He said that KSPSI would carry out its actions on a working day so that the aspirations it was fighting for would be heard by legislators in the House. Workers during their demonstrations will voice ten demands to the government.
"They will reject the government's plan to raise the basic electricity tariffs (TDL) because it would put a burden on laborers," Mathias said.
The labor confederation will also ask the government to increase the value of workers' non-taxable income from Rp1.2 million to Rp5 million. "We also refuse the imposition of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA). This is to protect businesses because the government is not yet able to find solutions to their problems," Mathias said.
Other demands included a request for the revision of Law No. 3 / 1992 on sate enterprises (BUMN) and replace it with a trusteeship system. The workers social insurance firm, PT Jamsostek, was set up with money collected from workers but it was later turned into a state-owned company.
Mathias said the money should have been managed by a board of trustees so that workers and employers could take part in its supervision. The demonstrating workers will also demand the revitalization of manpower supervision, reject the revision of Law No.3 /2003 on labor unions and demand better severance pay, elimination of case brokers and for the issuance of an adhoc procedural law on labor matters.
According to Mathias, the laborers would make their demand during their rallies on Monday.
But thousands of other workers will hold rallies on Saturday, exactly on May 1, which is International Workers Day or May Day. The Jakarta Regional Police predicted that about 10,000 workers will take to the streets to observe May Day.
"The predicted number of workers to observe International Workers' Day is based on our calculation of the numbers mentioned in reports from various elements of the public to the Jakarta Police," Boy Rafli Amar said.
He said there were 16 elements of the public planning to hold rallies in Jakarta on Labor Day on Saturday. They consisted of company employees and industrial workers.
According to Fafli Amar the demonstrators would hold rallies in six places, namely outside the Presidential Palace, Vice Presidential Palace, Parliament building, Manpower Ministry, the Workers Social Insurance Company (PT Jamsostek), the Hotel Indonesia (HI) Traffic Circle.
To maintain security and order in the streets on Saturday, the Jakarta Police and National Police Headquarters will deploy 15,000 personnel. "The number of personnel will be fielded in stages, not all at once," the Jakarta Police spokesman said.
In anticipation of traffic jams during the rallies, Boy said that the Jakarta police had prepared a scheme to divert traffic flows in certain directions but it would be based on the conditions in the field.
In this case, police called on demonstrators to air their aspirations in an orderly manner. They were also called on not to take animals with them in an effort to secure public order. Boy also explained that police will provide tight supervision for a number of factories to prevent sweeping by workers.
It will also tightly control various gates into the capital city of Jakarta. This is because thousands of workers from Jakarta?s satellite towns of Tangerang, Depok, Bekasi and Bogor will also join Saturday?s demonstrations.
About 5,000 workers from Tangerang district, Banten province, will join their peers from Bogor, Bekasi and Depok.
Coordinator of the Congress Alliance of he Indonesian Labor Unions (Kasbi) for Banten, Koswara said that about 5,000 workers from his alliance would flock to Jakarta.
"Data we have collected indicate that the number of workers from Tangerang who will join the Jakarta rallies. They will take to the streets to voice their aspirations," Koswara said.
He said that there were a number of demands that the workers would fight for, including their rejection of the outsourcing contract work, cheap pay, massive lay offs and the revision of Law No.13 / 2003 on manpower.
The All Indonesian Workers Union (SPSI) for Bekasi was reportedly to send to Jakarta about 4,000 workers for joining the Jakarta rallies.
In the meantime, around 2,000 workers from Depok, an administrative city in West Java, will also join their friends Saturaday's rallies in the capital city. "We will voice a number of demands to the House of Representatives (DPR) and the government," Sugiono, coordinator of Labor Unions Advocacy Team (TASPB) for Depok said.
(T.A014/A/HAJM/20:35/ ) April 30, 2010
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