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Workers demand both wage rise, arrest of Ahok

Jakarta Post - December 2, 2016

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Jakarta – Hundreds of workers from several unions staged a dual-purpose rally on Friday to demand both a better payment scheme and the arrest of Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama for alleged blasphemy.

"We demand the law to be enforced," Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI) chairman Said Iqbal said on Friday in the Tugu Tani statue area in Central Jakarta.

Speakers at the rally also demanded that Government Regulation No. 78/2015 concerning wages be revoked and also that minimum wages be increased between 15 and 20 percent.

The workers sang Islamic songs during the rally, which was held soon after another anti-Ahok demonstration initiated by the National Movement to Safeguard the Indonesian Ulema Council's Fatwa (GNPF-MUI) in the National Monument (Monas) area finished.(fac/jun)

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/12/02/workers-demand-both-wage-rise-arrest-of-ahok.html.