PT DNPI fires four workers

PT DNPI fires four workers

JAKARTA: PT Dai Nippon Printing Indonesia (DNPI) was reported to have arbitrarily fired four of its workers, who were accused of having stolen its products.

Yan Pieter Siahaan, the lawyer of the workers -- Solihin, his subordinates Yudi Hermawan and Kristian Patuan, and his wife Siswati -- said here on Sunday that the company's action was not humane as the workers had not been proven to have committed the crime.

"It seems the company only fabricated the reason. Also there is no evidence to show that they had stolen some boxes from the company's warehouse in Pulogadung," Yan Pieter was quoted by Antara as saying.

He said they had been accused of having stolen some boxes from a truck, which allegedly went to the company's warehouse in Pulogadung, East Jakarta on Aug. 31. But upon arrival, the truck was empty, with no boxes inside. Antara did not elaborate about the boxes.

The day after that, three of them, except Siswati, were asked by the company's security guards to admit the crime and forced to resign. They said they had been forced to admit that they had committed the crime because they had been physically threatened by the security guards.

Curiously, Solihin wife, Siswati, who also worked for the Japanese printing company, was fired several days later. -- JP