Students injured in bus accident
Students injured in bus accident
BOGOR: Dozens of students from Ibnu Khaldun University were unable to join the demonstration to support the controversial education bill in Jakarta on Tuesday as their bus turned upside down on the Jagorawi toll road in Cibubur, East Jakarta.
Ten students were treated at the emergency unit of the Indonesian Christian University hospital, according to Leo, a member of staff at the emergency unit.
Another student, Ristanto, 24, said that about 200 students of Ibnu Khaldun University left the campus at around 9 a.m. They took five medium buses and headed for the House of Representatives/People Consultative Assembly (DPR/MPR) building in Jakarta.
He said the tire of one of the buses was rather flat, but when students alerted the driver about it, he just ignored them.
An officer of the Jagorawi toll road, Maryadi, said that the bus was very crowded and many students sat on the roof of the bus.
"We told the students to get down off the roof, but they wouldn't listen," he said.
At about 10:45 a.m. one of the tires of the bus blew and the bus overturned, Maryadi said, adding that the bus was old.--JP
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Workers rally against planned layoffs
TANGERANG: Some 400 workers from wood processing company PT Tambun Kusuma staged a rally at the Tangerang legislative council on Tuesday amid fears that the management would lay them off.
The protesters accused the company of looking for shortcomings on the part of its workers by claiming that 40 percent of them held fake school diplomas.
"It is part of a management trick to seek reasons to allow the company to lay off workers, so that it can spend less on their severance pay," said Suharno, one of the protesters.
He said the workers had learned of the management's plan to relocate the factory to Surabaya, East Java.
In negotiations earlier, the company asked workers to tender their resignations and offered each Rp 1.4 million in "wisdom money".
However, the workers refused as the amount was much less than the severance pay they would have received.
Budi, another protester, said most of the workers had been employed there for more than three years.
According to the workers, the management had threatened to report to the police those proven to hold fake diplomas, unless they resigned voluntarily. --JP
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Arts festival to be held in Bogor
BOGOR: The Bogor administration will hold a Sundanese traditional arts festival at city hall on Jl. Juanda on Saturday in celebration of the town's 521st anniversary.
A total of 27 performing artists will take to the stage, according to the head of the Bogor arts and culture office, Renny Handayani.
The festival, which is now into its fourth year, involves 1,000 artists from Bogor and other areas of West Java.
The administration has budgeted Rp 150 million for the event. A Bogor-based art group taking part in the festival will receive Rp 2 million, while those from outside Bogor will be paid about Rp 3.5 million each.--JP