Workers protest transfer

Fifteen cleaning service attendants of PT. Pembangunan Jaya Ancol (PT PJA), which owns and manages the Ancol Amusement Park, went to the city council to protest the company's decision to transfer them without prior consultation.

The spokesman for the group, Sabar, on Tuesday told the City Council's Commission E, in charge of public welfare, that since 1989 PT PJA had transferred the employment of 200 workers to another company.

Antara news agency reported that the management of PT PJA pledged that the transfer would not affect their salaries or other rights, but shortly after the transfers they received monthly salaries far below what they had been receiving prior to the move.

Sabar told the councilors that they demand PT PJA reemploy them while the chairman of Commission E, Atje Mulyadi, said that the commission will summon PT PJA to address the workers' complaints. (mas)