INDONESIA: Dita Sari released

@box text intr = Dita Sari, chairperson of the Indonesian National Front or Labour Struggles (FNPBI) was released from police custody on the evening of November 9. She had been arrested, along with 30 workers, earlier in the day when police violently dispersed a 1000-strong rally in Jakarta by striking department store workers.

The police accused Dita Sari and seven FNPBI leaders of organising an illegal rally. However, the police later dropped the charges and all eight FNPBI leaders were released. Violent dispersal of workers actions and short detentions of union leaders is becoming a pattern in the current handling of labour disputes by the police.

From Green Left Weekly, November 21, 2001.

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From GLW issue 472