Workers to hold rally, mark International Migrants Day
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 12/18/2008 8:45 AM
About 1,000 workers will stage a rally at the Hotel Indonesia circle in Central Jakarta on Thursday to commemorate the UN's International Migrants Day.
Organizers said the ralliers will perform a traditional dance from Ponorogo in East Java and a theater piece on migrant workers' conditions and government's shoddy support for them.
Wahyu Susilo, an analyst from NGO Migrant Care, told tempointeraktif.com Thursday the day's protest was motivated by announced layoffs for Indonesia's working abroad due to the global economic downturn.
"In the demonstration, we will present a parade of corpses to depict the many migrant workers who have died from physical abuses," he said.
He said the workers' organization was were appealing to the government to ratify the 1990 United Nation treaty protecting migrant workers. (ewd)
