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Businesses call for peaceful anti-Ahok rally
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Business concerns: Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) chairman Hariyadi B. Sukamdani (left) and Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) chairman Rosan Roeslani speak to journalists on Tuesday during a press briefing to share business players' perspectives on a large-scale rally planned to be held in Jakarta on Dec.2. The business lobby groups said the rally could disrupt business in the city if it did not pass off peacefully. (JP/Winny Tang)
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eaders of two powerful business lobby groups, the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) and the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo), have called on would-be participants in a planned large-scale rally on Dec. 2 to maintain order and collectively prevent actions that might disrupt business activities in Greater Jakarta.
“We have learned some indications that sweeps will be conducted at a number of factories in some areas. We, as business players, do not want this to happen,” Kadin chairman Rosan Roeslani said on Tuesday.
(Read also: Police to reroute traffic during Dec. 2 rally)
Apindo chairman Hariyadi B. Sukamdani said a dozen companies in Tangerang, for example, had to stop their production activities on Nov. 24 after a group of protesters carried out a sweep to encourage workers join their labor rally on that day.
“We want to emphasize that business players respect democracy, but we want them [protesters] to also respect our rights,” he said.
Previously, the leadership of the Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI) announced that its members would join the Dec. 2 rally, initiated by the National Movement to Safeguard the Indonesian Council of Ulema’s Fatwa (GNPF-MUI) to demand the arrest of Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama for blasphemy. (win/hwa)
