Some PTDI employees return to work

Some PTDI employees return to work

BANDUNG: Only 1,428 out of nearly 10,000 employees of troubled
state aerospace company PT Dirgantara Indonesia (DI) have
returned to work since the management suspended them almost three
weeks ago.

A press statement from the company's management said that
these employees worked in the aircraft, aerostructure,
maintenance, engineering services, and corporate divisions of the
state firm.

Company spokesman Rakhendi Triatna said the employees were now
engaged in the final assembly of three CN-235 aircraft ordered by
the Pakistani Air Force and a CN-235 aircraft ordered by the
Malaysian Royal Air Force, conducting maintenance on helicopters
belonging to the Air Force, Navy and the Kutai regency
administration, and arranging the supply of spare parts to the
air forces of Pakistan, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand.

He said further redeployment of suspended workers would depend
on how the company's business grew.

The cash-strapped company has said it could only redeploy
3,000 of the suspended employees.

The government has placed the company under the supervision of
the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency. Some have accused the
government of planning to sell the company. -- Antara