PEOPLE’S ULTIMATUM FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC INDONESIA

Dear All International Comrades,

KEPAL (The committee of Constitutional Rights Defence), GEBRAK (Labour Movement with the People), KNPA (National Committee for Agrarian Reform), and together with all the people’s movements in Indonesia, would like to ask all international networks solidarity for the People of Indonesia.

Today, 10 January 2023, the Indonesian People’s Movement took to the streets to stage a massive protest in front of the Parliament Building urging for an ultimatum and demands from the people of Indonesia to the President and Parliament to immediately revoke PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning Job Creation.

On December 30 2022, President of Republic Indonesia, Joko Widodo, issued PERPPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning Job Creation. This is a bitter New Year’s gift given by the Government to the people of Indonesia. In fact, the Constitutional Court has annulled the Job Creation Law and asked the Government and the Parliament to amend the law in accordance with applicable regulations. However, the Government and the Parliament ignored the Constitutional Court’s Decision and straddled the Constitution.

In solidarity with the struggle of the people’s movement in Indonesia, please share widely the people’s ultimatum below that will be brought in the big demonstrations of the Indonesian People’s Movement:

PEOPLE’S ULTIMATUM FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC INDONESIA

Jakarta, 10 January 2023:
We, the people of Indonesia, demand that the President of the Republic of Indonesia revoke PERPPU Number 2 of 2022 concerning the Job Creation as soon as possible. We also demand that the Indonesian House of Representatives reject the PERPPU on Job Creation, which has undermined the pillars of the rule of law and betrayed the constitution of the Republic of Indonesia.

If within the next 7 days these demands are not met, we call on all Indonesian people, who have been trampled on by the arbitrariness of the President, to carry out civil disobedience and lawful mass actions; to reject the PERPPU on Job Creation which causes legal demoralization of investment interests.

This step is a form of protest with no other option, other than demanding the repeal of the PERPPU on Job Creation and as a stern warning against actions taken by the President / Government who impose their own will. The PERPPU on Job Creation with all its perspectives is only carried out for the interests of elites group by straddling the law and the decisions of the Indonesian Constitutional Court.

Civil disobedience will continue to be carried out by the people, as long as the betrayal of the constitution is still defended by the President and the House of the Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia.

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In the name of the People of Indonesia: