Gebrak Brings 10 Demands to 2026 May Day Commemoration
The Gerakan Buruh Bersama Rakyat (Gebrak) held a demonstration to commemorate International Labour Day or May Day in front of the DPR, MPR, and DPD complex on Friday, 1 May 2026. Gebrak presented ten demands to the DPR leadership.
KASBI General Chairman Sunarno stated that this year’s May Day demonstration, under the theme ‘Oppose Capitalism, Imperialism, Militarism: Realise Decent Work, Decent Wages, and a Decent Life’, carried ten demands.
“There are ten demands we are bringing,” said Sunarno in front of the DPR building on Friday.
The demands include, among others, immediately enacting pro-worker Labour Law. The formation of that regulation, he said, must involve trade unions and refer to Constitutional Court Decision Number 168.
Then, reform the wage system and eliminate wage disparities: implement a fair and dignified national decent wage for workers; guarantee job certainty by abolishing outsourcing, contract work, fake partnerships, and exploitative apprenticeships.
Sunarno continued, other demands include immediately ratifying ILO Conventions 188-190, guaranteeing and protecting female workers up to those with disabilities; prosper educators, lecturers, platform workers, medical and health workers.
Furthermore, the DPR and government must stop mass layoffs and suppression of trade unions; realise free, quality education and healthcare; enforce civil supremacy, safeguard democracy, stop militarism, stop criminalisation of people’s movements, and free arrested activists.
Gebrak, he said, also demands the implementation of genuine agrarian reform, stop land evictions of the people; and the cessation of wars as a form of solidarity for the sovereignty of the people of Palestine, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and others.
Sunarno emphasised that May Day must not merely be a national holiday, but a momentum for reflection on commitments to equality, social justice, and human dignity in the workplace.
“Workers’ awareness must be bold in criticising oppressive policies and prioritising the struggle for workers’ welfare over political elite interests,” he said.