'Surabaya Post' employees stage demo

'Surabaya Post' employees stage demo

SURABAYA: Dozens of journalists and workers from the closed
Surabaya Post daily protested in front of the East Java
legislative council on Monday, demanding that management hold an
extraordinary shareholders' meeting to decide their fate.

The protesters were received by the chairman of the council's
Commission E, Harbiah Salahuddin, and other legislators.

Syaiful Irwan, the head of the newspaper's labor union, said
Indra Jaya Aziz, one of the Surabaya Post's shareholders, failed
to abide by an agreement made during a shareholders' meeting on
May 29, in which the management was to pay workers their last
month's salary on June 3.

It was also agreed at the meeting to allow the entry of new
investors and that Indra Jaya would resign as president director
of the publishing company.

Responding to the workers' complaints, Harbiah vowed to summon
the shareholders of the Surabaya Post for a hearing with
legislators on June 10.

The newspaper ceased publication on May 1 because of financial
difficulties. --Antara