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By Choo Chon Kai

On 29 August 2007, about 2500 people gathered at the heart of Central Jakarta for a mass action. These people are urban poor from all over Jakarta, mainly women, with young and elderly.

By Choo Chon Kai

On 20 August 2007, around 300 workers gathered and marched to 3 places at 3 different locations: the Ministry of Labour dan Transmigration, Supreme Court and Presidential Palace. The mass action was jointly organized by ABM (Alliance of Challenging Labour) with Federation of Indonesian Peasant Unions, Women Solidarity, Union of Indonesia Hotel Workers, and Indonesian Student Union.

By Choo Chon Kai

By Choo Chon Kai

Indonesia has a rich history of peoples’ resistance. The resistances against Japanese Occupation and Dutch Colonization, are the struggles that brought together ordinary people from diverse cultural background on islands in Nusantara that spread from Hindi Ocean to Pacific Ocean.

Note- the local authorities have confiscated and deleted the photos taken

Ampang, 20 November 2006

After almost 8 hours of defending 62 houses in Kampung Berembang, finally the police and local authorities crushed the resistance resulting in 23 arrests including arrest of PSM and JERIT leaders, houses being demolished and burned down and one women in a very critical condition, fighting for her life in the hospital.

On 21 September, more than a thousand five hundred workers from seven states in Malaysia held a three-hour demonstration at Parliament house. The kind of mobilization done by the Factory and Union Coalition of JERIT (Oppressed People’s Network) on a working day would put even political parties and the Trade Union Movement to shame.

Four months of waiting after the last appeal court hearing in April, justice is not delivered on behalf of freedom of association. Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) denied its right to association again today, when the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal from PSM.

13/8/2006 Ipoh, MALAYSIA

During the Perak’s Workers Solidarity Night held on 12 August, Coalition of Factory Workers and Unions (GPKK) launched its call for mobilization on 27 September 2006.

On 14 December 2003, in a gathering of factory workers organized by GPKK, a campaign of 6 demands was launched. The campaign since then received tremendous response from people especially the working class in Malaysia. These 6 demands are: