TEMPO.CO, Bekasi – The Federation of Metal Workers Union (FSPI) of Bekasi chapter has said it would not mobilize its members to the Constitutional Court headquarters in Jakarta. It added the workers would continue working as usual.
“It’s useless, there’s no use in doing it [a protest],” FSPMI Bekasi chief Obon Tabroni told Tempo on Thursday, August 21, 2014. Obon added the federation was now focusing on fighting for a hike in the workers’ pay in 2015.
According to Obon, staging a protest rally in front of the KPK building would not sway the MK judges’ ruling, and that the federation was willing to accept whatever verdict the MK would announce. “Except during the onset of the proceedings,” he said.
Obon said if there were laborers rallying to Jakarta, it was carried out on their own initiative and that the federation did not instruct its members to do so. “There is no mobilization of mobs,” he said.
The MK is slated to announce its ruling on the July 9 presidential election dispute case at 2 p.m. today, Thursday 21, 2014. The FSPMI is known to have thrown its weight behind the losing Prabowo Hatta ticket.
ADI WARSONO
