Workers rally to demand salary<\/p>\n
TANGERANG: Some 200 workers of PT Joka Kayu Sentosa, a wood
\nprocessing company in the Jatake Industrial Estate in Jatiuwung
\ndistrict, Tangerang, urged the Tangerang Manpower Agency to force
\nthe company director to pay their salaries.<\/p>\n
The workers protested in front of the agency office on Tuesday
\nafternoon and spent the night there. They said that they have not
\nreceived their wages for three months.<\/p>\n
\"Since last year, we have only been paid between Rp 70,000
\n(US$8.24) and Rp 100,000 per month, while we should be paid Rp
\n628,000 per month,\" said one of the workers Zaenudin.<\/p>\n
He said that the workers had asked director Djohan Tansil to
\npay their salaries but he always argued that the company had no
\nmoney. However, Zaenudin alleged that the company still exported
\nits products to the Philippines and France.<\/p>\n
An official at the agency, Suaman, said that Djohan was
\nsummoned on Tuesday but could not many any decision as to how to
\nsettle the dispute.<\/p>\n
The workers vowed to continue their strike until they received
\ntheir salaries.<\/p>\n
\"How could we pay the bus fare to go to work if we have no
\nmoney at all. We can't even buy food for breakfast,\" Husein,
\nanother worker, said. -- JP<\/p>\n
;JP;JUN;
\nANPAj..r..
\nGreater-bobo-contest
\nBobo holds writing contest
\nJP\/8\/contest<\/p>\n
'Bobo' to hold writing contest<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: Bobo children's magazine will hold a writing contest
\nfor elementary fourth, fifth and sixth graders from around the
\nnation with the theme of \"Friendship amid Diversity\".<\/p>\n
The top 30 writers will be invited to participate in the 3rd
\nannual Children's Conference in Jakarta in October, this year.<\/p>\n
Students who want to enter the contest, should send a two-page
\nwriting sample in Bahasa Indonesia -- hand-written or typed -- to
\nthe contest committee (Jl. Palmerah Selatan #22, Central Jakarta
\n10270) by Sept. 12.<\/p>\n
During the conference, the children will be part of a workshop
\non pluralism and diversity which will be moderated by noted film
\ndirector Garin Nugroho and scholar Komarudin Hidayat.-JP<\/p>\n
;JP;JUN;
\nANPAj..r..
\nGreater-street children
\n75 street children to perform
\nJP\/8\/child<\/p>\n
75 street children to perform<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: As many as 75 street children from the city's five
\nmunicipalities will enter a \"Street Children's Expression
\nFestival\" on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n
The festival, organized by the Cahaya Hati Bangsa foundation
\nand supported by members of the Harley Davidson Owner's Club,
\nwill be held at the Ministry of National Education building on
\nJl. Jend. Sudirman in Central Jakarta, the foundation said in a
\nstatement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
During the festival, the children will sing and perform dances
\nand plays, including a play which portrays their experience of
\nbeing sexually harassed on the streets.<\/p>\n
During the festival, which has a theme of \"Why Did We Become
\nStreet Children and Who Cares about Us,\" they will make \"a
\npledge\" not to live on the streets any longer.-JP<\/p>",
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