PT DI workers march to Jakarta
PT DI workers march to Jakarta
BANDUNG: Some 4,000 employees of ailing state aircraft maker
PT Dirgantara Indonesia (DI) marched to Jakarta on Monday to
attend a hearing of the company's labor dispute at the manpower
ministry.
"We would like to ensure that the hearing will free from
government intervention," said labor union secretary A.M. Bone.
The first hearing of the industrial dispute settlement between
6,000 laid-off employees and PT DI is scheduled for Tuesday.
The government approved the company's decision last year to
lay off the employees in order to save the cash-strapped company
and allocated US$50 million for severance pay.
The employees have persistently challenged their dismissal. --
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Kwik to attend multiethnic meeting
PONTIANAK, West Kalimantan: State Minister of National
Development Planning Kwik Kian Gie is expected to attend a
multiethnic meeting here on Tuesday.
The meeting is part of several events to mark Chinese New
Year, which fell on Jan. 22.
Event organizer Paulus Mursalim said on Monday that the
meeting at Sultan Syarif Abdurrahman Stadium aimed to develop
solidarity among ethnic groups.
The West Kalimantan towns of Sambas and Pontianak were the
site of bloody ethnic conflicts between Dayak tribes and Madura
migrants in the late 1990s, which claimed hundreds of lives.
The gathering is to feature the Chinese lion dance, known
locally as barongsai, as well as traditional Dayak and Melayu
dances.
The province has adopted "harmony in ethnicity" as its motto.
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Hasyim avoids cash, donates cow
SURABAYA: The chairman of the country's largest Muslim
organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), has donated a cow to the East
Java branch of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).
Head of PKS East Java Rofi Munawar said on Monday that the
donation showed NU's support for the party's poverty platform in
the upcoming elections.
"God willing, the elections will produce clean and empathic
leaders who will lead this nation to prosperity," Rofi said.
Unlike the National Awakening Party, the United Development
Party and the Nahdlatul Umat Party, the PKS is not affiliated
with the NU.
NU chairman Hasyim Muzadi has been touted as a candidate in
the July 5 presidential election, but he has not been nominated
by any of the 24 contesting parties. -- Antara
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No pressure from PDI-P: KPU
JAKARTA: The General Elections Commission (KPU) denied on
Monday allegations that the Indonesian Democratic Party of
Struggle (PDI-P) had pressured it to intervene in a row that
involved the ruling party's East Kalimantan chapter.
"There was no such pressure... I will put my reputation on the
line if we conceded to pressure," KPU deputy chairman Ramlan
Surbakti said.
He was referring to a meeting between the KPU, the East
Kalimantan Provincial Elections Commission (KPUD) and local party
leaders over the weekend, at which the KPUD decided to revoke its
ban against the party's contesting the provincial legislative
election.
The East Kalimantan KPUD had earlier dropped the PDI-P from
the legislative election, as the party failed to submit its
revised list of candidates by the Jan. 19 deadline, claiming
internal conflicts.
Ramlan said the KPU annulled the East Kalimantan KPUD's
decision and accepted the PDI-P's original candidacy list, which
was valid because it was signed by both the head and secretary-
general of the party's East Kalimantan chapter.
The secretary-general had earlier said he had never endorsed
the list, which led to intra-party bickering. -- JP