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06 August 1999 |
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NewsIndonesian Trade Union Leaders to Visit AustraliaBy Janet Parker
Just one month after being released from three years in prison for the "crime" of organising workers to demand improved conditions and the right to organise, Indonesian trade union leader, Dita Sari is to tour Australia.
Dita's arrest in July 1996 resulted from her leading a demonstration of some 20,000 workers from 10 different factories in Surabaya, East Java. She was charged with "disturbing public order and security". Dita is already well-known among some Australian trade unionists as a result of her address to the 1994 Indian Ocean Trade Union Conference as President of the Indonesian Centre for Labour Struggle (PPBI). This time, Dita will be representing a new worker confederation, the Indonesian National Front for Worker Struggle (FNPBI) which held its inaugural congress in May, electing Dita as its president. Also on tour during August is Romawaty Sinaga, head of the International Relations Department of the FNPBI.
The FNPBI has adopted a number of national campaigns. They are: 100% wage rise, the lowering of prices, an end to all sackings, heavy penalties for offending employers, freedom for all political prisoners, an end to the political role of armed forces, an end to violence in politics, establish a transitional government, an end to violence and oppression in Aceh and a free and fair referendum for the East Timorese. Dita believes that her early release was related to a military attack on a peaceful protest outside the General Election Commission in Jakarta on July 1 in which seventy-six people were badly injured, many of them hospitalised. Following extensive international and national media coverage of the Indonesian military's brutality, the regime needed to try a face-saving gesture. The Labor Council of NSW will host a reception for Dita Sari at 4.30pm on Monday, August 16 and Dita will address a public meeting at 7pm that same day at the Trades Hall Auditorium, 4 Goulburn St, Sydney.
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