1,500 workers rally in Tangerang

TANGERANG: some 1500 workers of PT Indorama, a garment producer on Jl. Imam Bonjol in Tangerang, staged a rally at the municipal administration office on Tuesday, demanding an improvement to their welfare.

Accompanied by Tangerang Independent Association of Workers (PBI) coordinator Aat Sukmana, the women workers arrived at the office on Monday evening, spent the night there and staged the rally on Tuesday morning.

"We have repeatedly discussed our demands with the company management and made several agreements, but they've never implemented them," Sukmana said.

He said that the workers had taken their case to the municipal manpower agency and the legislative body, but the company management still refused to fulfill their demands.

"We have now come to this office because we believe the administration has the power to make the company's leaders, CH Yun and Susana, approve our demands," he said. -- JP