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The Way out for workers and Indonesian Poor

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The Way out for workers and Indonesian Poor: Build our own Movement forces; build our own Political Power and our own economic system Dedicated to all Indonesian Working Class, employees and Indonesian Poor Today, May 1st, 2008, we are here on the street and them whose right know are on their way, we come to siege the Palace and gathering to celebrates International Labor Day. Today is our day, to remember of over 100 years back, the International Working Class from various country had mobilized and strike to demanded short work times of 16-20 hours per-day cut down to 8 hours work. Toiling persistence and have had forced huge energies struggles, that in the end the Capitalist and Bourgeois powers have successfully strike down and won us our 8 hours working day, that we received it today. While in actual time, This 8 hours works has not enough to fulfilled workers needs any more, its reward only a cheap pay labor. More over with the contract-works status that shadowed by mass dismissal happened any time, while in other hand also, there outsourcing workers that treated rampantly and had their prosperity plundered. Out side the factory, workers as part of the rest Indonesian people, have no assurance to health care that highly expensive. They face limited to improve intellectual of their own and families because a high educational fee and books expense. And now, poor Indonesians Working Class getting worse, effected by high accelerated prices of fundamentals needs. Rice's prices, frying oils, eggs, petroleum, and gas prices and etc are beyond their purchase ability anymore. That's current situations put over faced of us by all the cowardice's elites of Indonesian politicians over the capitalist. They've been concord, bend over, and surrendered to the capital power. Its foreign capitals they worship off (come Mr. Capital, please come to Indonesia, investing our country, we'll prepare everything for you), in other sides, there are the New-Made National Capital Clan, who's also cowardly to resist, even they have had deferred by foreign capital. Take a look of what Indonesian Employers Association (APINDO) have been done after awhile the Oil-Based Fuels (BBM) subsidies for industrial company had yanked off by Government, which is part of the foreign capital pressure? APINDO have not resisted challenging them at all, more over they exploiting Indonesian Working Class more sturdily, have taken more advantages to keep their own profit, even under foreign capital pressure. We acknowledge that Foreign Capital makes use of those cowardly Indonesian Elite's Politic powers and the New Domestic Capital were on going to plundering our welfare, it is the colonialism. The foreign capital always interest in three things, even since early colonial period, they are: First, to take control over all Indonesian natural wealth. Second, to obtain cheap labor and can be control. And third, to creates market for their products. That's why the Elite Politics and New Domestic Capital agree to let the foreign capital take over our Mining Factories (oil, gas, coal, gold, nickel, copper and etc.), they were agree to let go our water sources, our Banks, and even to the point of the education sector being controlled by foreign interest. Cowardly was made them consent to amend Labor Law over foreign capitals need, which Labor Law no. 22/1957 on Resolving Labor Dispute and Law no. 12/1964 on Mass Dismissal won by workers under Soekarno regime was nothing benefits foreign capital. It is for these purpose occur in 2003, Labor Law no. 13/2003 and Law no. 2/2004 that revise Labor Law totally different to once in Sukarno times. The essential of Labor Law no. 13/2003 and law no. 12/2004 were to obtain cheap labor, easily to perform PHK, and under control to do not resist any authority. Practically applies minimum wages, contracts work and outsourcing, and criminalizing Worker activists. It is similar to Foreign Capital interest to gain the markets through import gate open wider for their products, it's because the Elites Politic power and those New Domestic Capitalist are cowardly and weakly to fully understand whether foreign product imports would switched off National economic and agriculture products. On that material bases, Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) since it first National Conference last 2006, had declared to struggle against Foreign Capital Colonized, war against the Elites Politics Power and Domestic Capitalist. This opposition statement has formulated in ABM struggles platform, that's means as its goals and altogether the attack against enemies of Indonesian Working Class and Poor: 1. Build a strong and autonomous National Industry under control of Indonesian Working Class and Poor. To bring about welfare for Indonesian Working Class and Poor, however, requires a strong industrialization, in entire Indonesian territory. To establish these industries it have to begin, in the first Place, with purpose to fulfill Indonesian Working Class and Poor needs of goods and services, that in simultaneously with the implementing the national proper wages (to increase consumption ability), to improving their science and technology acknowledgement (it had to begin with free education fees from beginner level until university), and proper health care service urge a free health facilities that motivate to increasing the productivity . In order to establish the Powerful and Autonomous National Industry, its requires Industrial-Bases such Chemical Industrial Base, Metal Industrial Base and various other industries should be strongly constructed basically, to supports the development other needed industrialization for welfare establishment of Indonesian Working Class and Poor. And to functions those Industrial bases, in fact, energies like Fuels, Electrical power, Water and etc. should be properly supplied. To be remain on this base only is still not enough but as long as National Industry has unable to competes the Industry of advance capitalist country, then State protection of National Industry ought to performed, as well in conducting banning instruction on importing or exporting certain products items. In order for this to happen obviously we can not relies on Foreign Capital power, the cowardly forces of the Political elites or domestic capitalist. Rather, this has to be taken under our own supervised, the Indonesian working class and Poor because in reality, the one who better understand the mechanism of production process as well as distribution are the Indonesian working class and Poor. 2. Oversee Debt Elimination by the Uniting Power of Protest Action and Mobilization of Indonesian Working Class and the Poor. Since the agreement of Round Table Conference 1949, the foreign country –it was Dutch – forced Indonesian Government to pay debts of Dutch for 4 Million Gulden, as war expense, etc., which very expensive in that time. It put forward as requisite on "acknowledgement" of Indonesian sovereignty (which in fact, Dutch only acknowledge Indonesian Republican League, the state constructed by Dutch themselves). This debt had never been paid by Soekarno, even furthermore, the Round Table Conference it self was no longer avowed. But when Soeharto's regime Hold the power – until today presidencies of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono–Jusuf Kalla – this dept of Dutch time is re-pay for 35 years time. And following other additional debts, that consist sorts of requisites that facilitate Foreign Capital easy access to plunders Indonesian Natural Sources, exploiting Indonesian worker class and Poor, and selling their products to Indonesia. Thus, money that should be use to Develop National Industry, is consume to pay off foreign debt, not to mention, the condition behind the debt also extremely damaging – the enactment of Law no. 13/2003 on labor as well as its plan of revision are part of condition of foreign debt. Like wise also, privatization and the 2007 Law on Foreign Investment, and so forth. Because of this therefore, payment of the foreign debt must stop. And this is not something that can be done by the cowardly political elites or domestic capital. The repudiation of foreign debt can only be done by uniting the protest movement of the Indonesian Working Class and Poor, because only we, have an interest in repudiating foreign dept, only we have the power to force this trough, because we are the one who operate the machine of production, wheels of distribution. Have we not already demonstrated our power when we opposed Ministerial Decree No. 78/2001, which revised the Ministerial Decree No. 150/2000, also when we opposed plan revision to Labor Law No. 13/2003, and was it not us who were victorious and they who lost? 3. Nationalization of the Mining and other Vital Industries under Worker Management by uniting the protest action and Mobilization Working Class and Poor. As explained above, the interest of foreign capital (who make use of the cowardly political elites and Domestic Capitalist), is to seek as large amount of profits as possible, and recently, the most beneficial for Foreign Capital are Mining Industries (Oil, Gas, Gold, Copper, Coal, Nickel, and etc), Besides to operate industries in their own country (Such as America, obviously need a huge amount of Oil supplies to guaranty their Industries operational) also by dominating our Mining, they receive a large advantages, because they sell it for a high prices to the other States who needed it (includes to Indonesia). As well as other benefits Industry such as Telecommunication, which lately are under foreign Capital authorization or also Banking Industries (Finance) that also have taken by Foreign (how can we develop this country, if all of the Banking are belong to foreigners). Because of that, in order to develop the strong and autonomous National Industry, all the entire Mining and Vital Industries have to be under control of Indonesian working class and Poor, in the way of Nationalization by our own Power, not relies on the elites politic power and domestic capitalist who has no any encouragement in front of Foreign Capitals, even in the end thought, they come to agree on Nationalization program (lately, there are Amien Rais, Wiranto or Rizal Ramli and others, diligently come up with Nationalization), its only acted to seek praises, lip service to look more populist, in order that Indonesian Working Class and Poor would trust them again, and they can hold back the power, and then commit oppression again. 4 Trial and Seizure the Corruptors Wealth by the Uniting the Protest Action and Mobilization Working Class and Poor. We do Noticed, that almost all of the Government Official from National to Neighborhood Association (RT) levels are hold by corrupt Officials. And we do notice also, there Institutions of corruption eradication are become the corrupt institutions. And we do know, the money that had been corrupted is huge amounts of it, that can be use to establish the Strong and Autonomous National Industry. Because of the acts to conduct corruption eradication and seizing their wealth is still not moving, so we have to take this responsibility. We are people, who will come in organized actions to arrest and seize the corruptor wealth, that we can use it to develop National Industry, because none other political power are able to do this. In order to carry out those Four Programs above, there's no other way, but all of the Indonesian Working Class and Poor have to united themselves and move together to take the Power in forces from Elites Politic power that cowardly in front of Capital and have Fail to bring the Indonesian Working Class and Poor in to the welfare. The working Class and Poor would have possibility to win this struggle, only through a strong, progressive and militant organization. Those have faith on their own mass power. Lately, we have seen and were collided by the failure excess of Three Labor Union Confederations in Indonesia, they were failed to struggle the needs of Indonesian Working Class and Poor. Even more, the leaders of these three confederations are not different at all with those cowardly elites politic; always seek for compromise that disadvantaged Indonesian Working Class and Poor – have they not like to compromise when criticizing wage question in Wage Council, have they not like to compromise when addressing Labor Law in Tripartite Body, which resulted Labor Law no. 13/2003 and so forth – on that's bases, why we named them as bogus confederations. On that bases also, why we have to rebuild a new confederation, which different in its struggles spirits, which bright clearer on its struggles goals, and which is different struggles method. By rebuilding new Progressive and Militant confederation, actually we train ourselves to build our own political movement, political power of Indonesian working class and Poor, who are ready to take power. Finally, Workers Challenge Alliance hailing to all of Working Comrades, Employees Comrades and Indonesian Poor to continuously to disseminate as widely as possible, to deepen the ideas in any discussions and meeting forums as well as between working comrades in a rents house, inter-rent houses, in side the Factory, inter-Factory, in an Industrial territory, inter-industrial territory, in one city and inter the city, until in national Meetings forums. ABM also hailing to all Indonesian Working Class and Poor, always build solidarity, never let any of our Class people to be oppressed, without receiving help from the other, keep building up the unity anywhere, because the unity is the way out of our victory. Happy International Labor Day, Keep struggles until the victory come!!