PTDI workers demand verdict execution

PTDI workers demand verdict execution

BANDUNG: Some 2,000 employees of state-owned aerospace firm PT
Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) staged a protest again on Friday at
the West Java High Court on Jl. Diponegoro here.

They demanded that the president of the court, Ben Suhanda
Syah, order the execution of the verdict handed down by the
Bandung District Court, which ruled in favor of the PTDI
employees following a hearing last month. The judicial panel
stated that the decision by PTDI management to lay off a total of
6,651 employees of the company was unlawful.

The management decision, which was resolved upon during a PTDI
shareholders' meeting last year, was unlawful as it was taken in
violation of the procedures for the holding of a shareholders'
meeting.

Marni Emmy Mustofa, the presiding judge, then ordered the
company to rehire the employees, but the execution of the order
was postponed while PTDI appealed.

It is now up to the West Java High Court to decide on the
matter. Arif Minardi, the chairman of the workers' union, lashed
out at the high court for being slow in handing down its
decision. -- JP