PT DI agrees to meet demand by employees for more allowances<\/p>\n
BANDUNG (JP): Responding to employee pressure, the
\ncommissioners of the state-owned aircraft industry PT Dirgantara
\nIndonesia (PT DI) promised on Friday to have one of the company's
\ndirectors replaced due to incompetence.<\/p>\n
\"The commissioners also agreed to increase the educational
\nallowances by twice as much as our monthly salary,\" PT DI
\nemployees' spokesman Arief said, after meeting with two
\ncommissioners.<\/p>\n
Arief was one of four employee representatives received by
\ncommissioners Ngapuli Sinisuka and Dolly Syarif, during a huge
\ndemonstration staged by some 8,000 employees on Friday.<\/p>\n
According to Arief, the commissioners also promised to bring
\nthe other demands to the upcoming shareholders meeting on June 12
\nin Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Arief refused to identify the name of the director who might
\nbe replaced, but unconfirmed reports said that Ilham Habibie
\nwould be replaced.<\/p>\n
Ilham, the current director of trade at the company, is the
\neldest son of former president BJ Habibie, who once headed the
\ncompany, formerly known as Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara
\n(IPTN).<\/p>\n
Ilham, appointed director of trade in 1999, had been the
\noperational director from 1995.<\/p>\n
At least 8,000 PT DI employees renewed their strike on Friday
\nafter their first strike on Tuesday did not achieve anything.<\/p>\n
They demanded, among other things, a higher educational
\nallowance, and eradication of corruption, collusion and nepotism.<\/p>\n
In the noisy but non-violent protest, the employees urged that
\nthe company also return a total of Rp 35 billion to them.<\/p>\n
They said the money, collected from parts of their monthly
\nsalaries, had been used to finance the activities of the company
\nemployees' housewives' organization (Dharma Wanita).<\/p>\n
During President Soeharto's tenure, the company had reportedly
\nused billions of rupiah belonging to the Ministry of Forestry.<\/p>\n
The employees also said that the company management had been
\nso incompetent that this, the only aircraft industry in the
\ncountry, suffered some Rp 200 billion in losses last year.<\/p>\n
As in the previous protest, the employees gathered in front of
\nthe company's management building.<\/p>\n
Some employees took turns to speak, criticizing the
\nmanagement, while the others banged used oil drums.<\/p>\n
AN Bone, secretary of the employees' forum (FKK) said the
\nemployees were temporarily satisfied with the commissioners'
\npromises.<\/p>\n
\"Our plan to go to the Ministry of Finance has been canceled,\"
\nhe said.<\/p>\n
FKK was sure that the employees would be back at work on
\nMonday, he said. (25\/sur)<\/p>",
"url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/pt-di-agrees-to-meet-demand-by-employees-for-more-allowances-1447893297",
"image": ""
},
"sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
"sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com"
}