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A labour demonstrator raises his fists in support of the protest against a controversial omnibus bill on job creation in Tangerang, Indonesia
MILLIONS took strike action in Indonesia today and thousands rallied in cities across the country in protest at a new Job Creation Law that takes an axe to workers’ rights and environmental protections.
In Bandung, West Java, protesters blocked roads around the local parliament building and burned tyres. Industrial workers rallied in Tangerang and Bekasi, and walked out of factories and demonstrated in Karawang and Serang in West Java and Banten provinces.
Police prevented trade unions from rallying in the capital Jakarta.
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
