Kondisi perburuhan Indonesia: serikat buruh, Desember 1960 (Indonesia labor conditions: unions)

=== [PDF page 1] === Department of State INCOMING TELEGRAM PERMANENT RECORD COPY UNCLASSIFIED Control: 1671 Rec'd: December 3, 1960, 6:01 a.m. FROM: Djakarta TO: Secretary of State NO: 1593, December [Unreadable] Action: [Unreadable] Info: EUR, USIA, INR, CIA, NSA, OSD, ARMY, NAVY, AIR, COM, LAB, RMR SENT DEPARTMENT 1593; REPEATED FOR CINCPAC FOR POLAD 212 According announcement South Sumatra and Djambi Military Command spokesman December 2, regional war commanders ban continues on activities PKI and affiliates including SOBSI, PERBUM (oil workers union), other SOBSI affiliates, Pemuda Rakjat (youth organization), GERWANI (women), etc. Officer of command on December 1 told executives these organizations ban not affected by ending supreme war administrators regulation 6 and its replacement by regulation 7. JONES [Routing stamp; unreadable] === [PDF page 2] === INCOMING AIRGRAM Department of State PERMANENT RECORD COPY OFFICIAL USE ONLY FROM: Amembassy DJAKARTA TO: Secretary of State, WASHINGTON Date Sent: December [Unreadable], 1960 G-186 Action: [Unreadable] Info: USIA, INR, CIA, NSA, LAB, RMR BEGIN UNCLASSIFIED Djakarta press services carried announcement Dec. 2 of formation new federation of Government employees unions to be known as Persatuan SS/SB Pegawai Negeri or "PSPN." The initial member unions involved are the PBKA railway workers union, the PGRI teachers union, the SSPTT postal telegraph and telephone workers union, the SESDA, union of religious affairs workers, the SB Kompen, Information Ministry workers union, the SBP, state pawnshop workers union, and the SSKDN, Ministry of Internal Affairs workers union. The eight unions, which are expected to be joined by others in the government employees field, have seceded from the Communist-dominated Federation BKS Pegawai Negeri, on the grounds of being unable to agree with the policies of the latter federation. The new federation's announcement stated that the PSPN will follow a policy free from all influence of international ideology and other influences counter to the Indonesian Pantjasila and USDEK/MANIPOL philosophy. Leaders in the organization of the PSPN have told Embassy labor officers that SUBIADINATA, Chairman of the PGRI teachers union, has been agreed upon as Chairman of the PSPN. Dr. KUSNA PURARDIREDJA, Chairman of the PBKA railway workers union, has been chosen as Vice-Chairman. The other officers are as yet unknown. Its headquarters will be in Bandung. END UNCLASSIFIED BEGIN OFFICIAL USE ONLY COMMENT: Organization of the PSPN, which is reported to have taken at least half of the membership of the old BKS-Pegawai Negeri, has been quietly under way for some months. Its guiding spirits and chief organizers have been Lt. Col. LURTONO, Chairman of the BKS-BUMIL, and TAMBUNAN, the American trained (ILGWU and Cornell) Director of Organization of the PBKA. Financing of the new organization will be supplied by the PBKA. OFFICIAL USE ONLY [Routing stamp; unreadable] === [PDF page 3] === G-186 Djakarta OFFICIAL USE ONLY Whether it will amount to much more than a source of embarrassment to the PKI and SOBSI, which have dominated the BKS-Pegawai Negeri for years, remains to be seen. JONES RLKinney:afh OFFICIAL USE ONLY === [PDF page 4] === INCOMING TELEGRAM Department of State PERMANENT RECORD COPY CONFIDENTIAL Action: EUR Info: COM, USIA, INR, CIA, NSA, OSD, ARMY, NAVY, AIR, LAB, RMR FROM: Djakarta TO: Secretary of State NO: 1640, December 7, 4 p.m. Control: 4062 Rec'd: December 7, 1960, 9:37 p.m. SENT DEPARTMENT 1640; CINCPAC 214. CINCPAC FOR POLAD Embassy telegram 1593. Continuation of PKI ban by South Sumatra military command tends confirm long standing reports this to be done in all three areas where party banned by regional commanders last August (other two South Sulawesi, South Kalimantan). Action likely be interpreted as public defiance Sukarno policy re role of PKI in Indonesia, particularly at this time of Nasakom campaign. Remains to be seen if this encouraging sign will be followed by similar army action elsewhere. JONES [Routing stamp; unreadable] === [PDF page 5] === Department of State INCOMING AIRGRAM PERMANENT RECORD COPY CONFIDENTIAL FROM: Amembassy DJAKARTA TO: SecState WASHINGTON Date Sent: December 13, 1960 G-188 Action: [Unreadable] Info: EUR, INR, CIA, NSA, COM, LAB, RMR In the course of a visit to the reporting officer at his residence November 19, Adolf RACHMAN, officer of the SARBUMUSI (N.U. Party) trade union, former ICA Labor Division Translator, and presently employed as assistant to Major SUHARDIMAN, Secretary of BANAS (Coordinating Council of management for nationalized former Dutch enterprises) provided the following information: OPPI and the Establishment of Industrial Production Councils. The OPPI state-sponsored trade union unification plan has foundered due to the President's displeasure over the efforts of Production Minister SUPRAJOGI and Labor Minister AHEM to put the plan into effect without SOBSI support or participation. While Suprajogi had intended to form the Production Councils after OPPI was established and use OPPI as the source of labor representation for the Councils, the apparent stalemate over OPPI has caused him to [Unreadable] put the plan for the Councils into effect without OPPI. A month or so ago (the exact timing is unclear) a Labor Section was set up within BANAS. The Labor Department loaned former Labor Minister SAMJONO, a SOBSI-obligated career Labor Department officer, to head this section. Samjono has permitted the Communists, including SOBSI leader HARJONO, normally head of the Labor Department's Labor Relations Bureau, and SIREGAR, of the same Bureau, to infiltrate BANAS. Major Suhardiman was not aware of their political connections when they were assigned to BANAS but now has recognized their politics and has stated that they will be removed. Samjono and his aides had been supplying internal BANAS information to SOBSI. Major Suhardiman has asked Rachman to draft the regulations to cover the establishment of the central Production Council and of the Councils to be set up in each enterprise. Rachman requested the reporting officer's aid in drafting the details. [Routing stamp; unreadable] === [PDF page 6] === G-188 Amembassy DJAKARTA CONFIDENTIAL COMMENT: Rachman is a well-meaning and sincere young man, though not always reliable as a source. He resigned from his ICA employment several months ago to accept a staff position as one of the assistants of Labor Education Center Director SJAHARUDDIN. He left this job and accepted the BANAS position several weeks ago because, as he told the reporting officer at the time, he was disgusted at Sjaharuddin's do-nothingness, subservience to PNI-KBKI leader A.M. DATUK, who insisted on Sjaharuddin stacking the Center's staff with PNI incompetents, and compliance with Sukarno's NASAKOM concept through contacts with SOBSI in relation to the Center's future program. The Reporting Officer is inclined to credit Rachman's version of internal BANAS developments because it is considerably confirmed by other information. However, the assignment of SOBSI-supported Samjono to BANAS is rather surprising, as Ahem and Suprajogi should well know his political obligations. JONES 12/9/60 CONFIDENTIAL === [PDF page 7] === Department of State TELEGRAM CONFIDENTIAL Info: EUR, [Unreadable], ARMY, NAVY, AIR, RMR FROM: Djakarta TO: Secretary of State NO: 1731, December 15 SENT DEPARTMENT 1731, CINCPAC POLAD 233, REPEATED BRUSSELS Embassy despatch 423. [The following text is scrambled in the scan; only legible stretches are kept.] According to press, A. Munir, Deputy Chairman PKI-SOBSI, in SOBSI National Council anniversary address December 14th proposed GOI consider "measures" against Belgian enterprises here in reprisal [Unreadable] "imperialism" in Congo. [Unreadable] Munir praised GOI decision [Unreadable] withdraw troops from UN Congo command [Unreadable] with their play of "foul force" [Unreadable] and accused UN command [Unreadable] urged immediate nationalization [Unreadable] Shell oil [Unreadable] to advance West Irian cause. [Unreadable] Munir also called [Unreadable] for formation of Nasakom National Labor Front [Unreadable] composed of SOBSI, KBKI (PNI) and Sarbumusi (NU) [Unreadable] Reliable labor source reported first PKI plan to capitalize on [Unreadable] Egyptian move against Belgian [Unreadable] considerable [Unreadable] investment in Indonesian estates. Comment: [Unreadable] public expression of this front is first [Unreadable] arguments being advanced by Communists with support [Unreadable] KBKI and elements of Sarbumusi [Unreadable] divide [Unreadable] National Labor [Unreadable] patronage to the exclusion of other [Unreadable] and less Nasakom-minded union groups. JONES *As received, will be serviced upon request. === [PDF page 8] === INCOMING AIRGRAM Department of State ACTION COPY PERMANENT RECORD COPY CONFIDENTIAL FROM: AmEmbassy, DJAKARTA TO: Secretary of State Date Sent: December 15, 1960 G-196 REF: Embdespatch 585, 5/21/58; Embtel 1345; Airgram G-188 Info: EUR, UCEA, MOP, OCB, INR, CIA, NSA, COM, LAB, RMR Djakarta press has announced SOBSI-affiliated SARBUPRI (Estate Workers Trade Union) in a letter to the President, Labor Minister AHEM, Production Minister SUPRAJOGI and others dated Dec. 6, 1960 praised the recent regulation providing for establishment of enterprise councils, including within all nationalized former Dutch enterprises, the vast PPN-BARU estates. SARBUPRI noted that this development was in line with long-standing "hope" of labor that workers' participation in management would be realized in Indonesia. Particular credit was given to President Sukarno, who heralded the industry councils development in his August 17, 1960 address. However, SARBUPRI's letter expressed concern that the regulation (No. 45, 1960) was weak in certain respects and that production councils would be ineffective unless the trade unions themselves choose the workers' representatives to serve thereon. SARBUPRI said that purposes of the regulation would not be fulfilled unless genuine cooperation was brought about between the managers and "a big laborer's trade union" loyal to MANIPOL, USDEK and NASAKOM and opposed to the continuing rebellions in West Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi (ANTARA News Agency). COMMENT: SARBUPRI, largest of the SOBSI national unions and its most entrenched of all unions in state-operated enterprise through majority control of estate workers, here registers itself as bellwether for all SOBSI in move to head off plans of Suprajogi and BANAS (state enterprise coordinating council) leaders to [Unreadable] SOBSI in nominal worker representation in enterprise councils. In recent conversations with BANAS official and Chaerul SALEH, Minister of Development, the reporting officer was informed BANAS has planned to avoid problem of direct approach to unions for worker representatives [Unreadable]. In practice, [Unreadable] worker representation in state enterprises where unions exist [Unreadable] other fragments [Unreadable] BANAS officials anticipate [Unreadable] balance SOBSI [Unreadable] window-dressing. CONFIDENTIAL [Routing stamp; unreadable] === [PDF page 9] === Amembassy DJAKARTA CONFIDENTIAL [Unreadable] such overwhelming majorities [Unreadable] In reporting officer's opinion, SOBSI has [Unreadable] access [Unreadable] estates [Unreadable] BANAS will be successful in keeping SOBSI [Unreadable] that it is difficult to foresee [Unreadable] on Java and some areas Sumatra. However, [Unreadable] heavy penetration [Unreadable] North Sumatra, where Army may have [Unreadable] key to success or failure would seem [Unreadable] estate councils composition. S. Sumatra, where PKI-SOBSI still under Army ban, presumably not at present a problem. The reference to enterprise councils being the answer to labor's long-standing "hope" was a reminder of the PKI-SOBSI campaign in 1958 to obtain union representation in management of former Dutch holdings. (See reference despatch.) JONES LAB Dec. 12, 1960 CONFIDENTIAL === [PDF page 10] === INCOMING AIRGRAM Department of State ACTION COPY PERMANENT RECORD COPY OFFICIAL USE ONLY FROM: Amembassy DJAKARTA TO: Secretary of State Date Sent: December 21, 1960 G-206 REF: Embassy Despatch 423 Info: ICA, USIA, INR, CIA, NSA, OSD, ARMY, NAVY, AIR, COM, LAB, RMR During week of December 5 a self-styled NASAKOM labor committee [Unreadable] of representatives of SOBSI, SARBUMUSI and KBKI labor federations called upon Lt. Colonel Lurtono, Chairman BKS-BUMIL (Military Labor Cooperation Body), and requested that [Unreadable] membership in BKS-BUMIL [Unreadable] Reportedly [Unreadable] Lurtono refused the request flatly [Unreadable] and until [Unreadable] NASAKOM [Unreadable] principle [Unreadable] KBKI was represented by Iskandar [Unreadable] Comment: SOBSI obviously exploiting the opportunistic tendencies and slavish attitude towards [Unreadable] Sukarno promulgated political slogans of the KBKI and SARBUMUSI [Unreadable] NASAKOM is the most [Unreadable] Another recent, successful exploitation [Unreadable] was the joint issuance of a communist-labor [Unreadable] federation [Unreadable] Algerian question [Unreadable] The head of the KBKI, when questioned on [Unreadable] those points of collaboration between his organization and [Unreadable] took no action [Unreadable] disavowed them. Interestingly [Unreadable] Sjaharudin [Unreadable] also is the [Unreadable] Labor Education Center [Unreadable] full-time director [Unreadable] Labor Department, an ICA-supported project. (See reference despatch.) JONES