Telkom workers to hold rallies

Telkom workers to hold rallies

JAKARTA (JP): Some 3,000 employees of state telecommunications
company PT Telkom in Central Java and Yogyakarta have planned to
stage rallies here to protest an agreement to sell assets in
their office to their affiliated satellite provider, PT Indosat.

Labor union chairman of Telkom's Yogyakarta and Central Java
division, Syahrul Akhyar, told the media on Wednesday the
employees would hold the rallies on April 24 and April 25 at the
Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transportation and
Telecommunications and the office of the Coordinating Minister
for the Economy.

Syahrul said the Telkom workers decided to go to Jakarta after
their letters sent to the government, in which they requested an
opportunity to discuss the matter, were not responded to.

"We are fighting not for our own interests, but the company's
and in particular the state's because Telkom assets will be very
strategic in the future," he said as quoted by Antara.