Dita Sari wins 2002 Reebok Rights Award<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Indonesian labor activist Dita Indah Sari has been named
\njoint-winner of the 2002 Reebok Human Rights Award.<\/p>\n
Since 1988 Reebok, one of the world's leading footwear
\nmanufacturers, has presented the award to honor activists aged 30
\nyears of age or younger for their efforts to improve human rights
\nat great personal risk and against formidable odds.<\/p>\n
Dita, 29, was awarded $50,000 award for her eight-year
\nstruggle.<\/p>\n
\"She has been harassed, arrested, imprisoned and tortured for
\nher efforts to improve the deplorable labor conditions for
\nthousands of factory workers, primary women, in Indonesia,\"
\nMassachusetts-based Reebok International Ltd. said in a statement
\nreleased Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Dita and three other recipients -- Kavumbu Hakachima of
\nZambia, Babita Maili Lama of Nepal and Mallka Asha Sanders of the
\nUnited States -- will be presented with their awards at a
\nceremony during the Olympic Arts Festival on Feb. 2002 at the
\nCapitol Theater in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n
The Reebok Human Rights Award is the second award that Dita
\nhas received in less than a year. Last August, she won the
\n$25,000 Ramon Magsaysay Award in the young emergent leadership
\ncategory.<\/p>\n
The University of Indonesia law school dropout and co-founder
\nof the controversial Indonesian Democratic Party (PRD) leads the
\nCongress of the National Front for Indonesian Workers Struggle
\n(FNPBI).<\/p>\n
In 1996, Dita led 20,000 striking workers in the East Java
\nindustrial city of Surabaya demanding better labor conditions.
\nShe was arrested and sentenced to six years jail on charges of
\nsubversion. Thanks partly to international pressure, Dita was
\nreleased from prison in 1999.<\/p>\n
Her struggle is often attributed to the fledging Labor
\nmovements in Indonesia. The FNPBI claims to include 15 trade
\nunions with 22,000 members.<\/p>",
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