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
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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
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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