Indonesia: demonstration on Omnibus Law dispersed by the police
Event- Country
- Indonesia
- Initial Date
- Mar 14, 2023
- Event Description
The demonstration carried out by approximately 3,000 combined masses from various labor and student organizations in front of the People's Representative Council (DPR) building to reject Legislation (Perppu) Number 2 of 2022 concerning Job Creation (Ciptakerja) or the omnibus law on Tuesday (14 / 3) disbanded by the police.
According to Gatra.com monitoring, the disbandment by the apparatus was carried out at 18.42 WIB via loudspeakers. However, even though the police had given this warning more or less three times, the demonstrators refused to leave the DPR building, because there was no certainty from the DPR whether there was any intention in listening to the people's aspirations.
The dispersal was carried out by the police, because the action had exceeded the specified time limit, in accordance with Police Chief Regulation No. 9 of 2008, for demonstrations in the open only until 18.00 WIB.
At 19.44 WIB the police asked representatives of the demonstrators to coordinate. And finally at 20.00 WIB, the masses of demonstrators began to leave in front of the DPR building.
"We will come back with more crowds," said a representative from the demonstration against the Perppu Ciptaker at the DPR, Tuesday (14/3).
"Us going home doesn't mean that we stop fighting," he continued.
As previously reported, according to Gatra.com monitoring, demonstrators began to crowd the DPR building starting at 10.00 WIB. As of 4:51 p.m. it was still observed that they had not left the DPR building.
This action is a continuation of the demonstrators on Monday (13/3) yesterday. The demonstration this time was a joint action from various trade union organizations in a number of areas, from Jakarta, Subang and others.
A number of students also joined the protest against the Ciptaker Bill, one of which was from the University of Indonesia, which totalled around 20 students.
In this action, the demonstrators still brought the same four demands, namely, rejecting the ratification of the Omnibus Law on the Job Creation Law or the Ciptaker Bill, rejecting the Health Bill, passing the PPRT Bill, and urging the government to conduct a forensic audit of state tax revenues, and remove the Director General of Tax.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Administrative Harassment
- Enactment of repressive legislation and policies
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- Student
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: -6.181536871810943
Longitude: 106.85340562040528
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 14 March 2023, trade union organisations and students protesting the problematic Omnibus Law were unilaterally dispersed by the police in Jakarta, Indonesia.