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Hello everyone, hello all comrades, my name is Muhammad Husain Maulana, I'm a General Secretary of Serbuk Indonesia, or you can say the Federation of People Union in Indonesia.
Husain Maulana of Serbuk Indonesia discusses climate justice, workers' rights, and just transition in Indonesia's precarious sectors.
Key Takeaways
- Just transition must include protecting workers’ rights and livelihoods.
- Corruption and exploitation in supply chains can be challenged through union action.
- Gender-based violence at work requires legal ratification and awareness.
- International solidarity strengthens labor movements and social justice causes.
- Climate justice and workers’ rights are deeply interconnected and require global cooperation.
Summary
- Serbuk Indonesia represents workers in construction, forestry, electricity, and related sectors, focusing on fair OSH, decent work, and living wages.
- Construction workers face high risks due to poor safety and climate impacts like extreme heat from global warming.
- The union fights for climate justice and just transition, emphasizing no worker should be left behind in industrial changes.
- Corruption and wage cutting in electricity supply chains were challenged successfully through strikes and union mobilization.
- Serbuk Indonesia promotes gender awareness and ratification of ILO Convention 190 on gender-based violence at work.
- The union collaborates with other labor groups, farmers, students, and international federations for broader social justice.
- Solidarity actions have been taken for workers in Germany, South Korea, Panama, Myanmar, and Palestine.
- The union stresses the importance of international principles and cooperation among workers globally.
- They advocate sharing successful organizing strategies, research, and building inclusive trade unions.
- The fight for climate and social justice is integral to improving workers' conditions and global solidarity.
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We are established since 2013, and we are representing for some sectors that are construction and building materials, and wood and forestry, and also electricity for supply chains, and the other sectors that relate with the main of our sector in that organizing activity.
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So we are very serious for struggle to the worker rights, yes, the main of our demand is a fair OSH, and then decent work, and living wages.
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Because as you know, the construction or building materials is a very precarious sectors in Indonesia and the big working accidents was happened in the construction and the highest working accident in Indonesia.
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We are fight for climate justice, and then just transition, or improvement of technology in the artificial intelligence, and also participation of women and youth, and the increasing for union density in Indonesia.
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Many people said about the, yeah, we need to change the industry from bad industry or fossil industry to be a green energy, green industry.
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Our members, for example, in the construction site, we have a big numbers in the construction workers, a very affected with the global warming, they work in the field with the hottest situation, and the safety equipment is very weak.
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Many people got bad impact from the global warming or damage environment is caused by capitalism or big industry and not responsible with the society, with the environment.
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And in the Indonesian context, you know, we have a many forest, trees, and, yeah, giving high oxygen impact to the world.
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When we talk about just transition, we talk about the the changing situation, so in our point or our concerns, don't leave the workers.
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Or yeah, like a SDGs principle, no one left behind, we very critical things about the ownership.
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And who get the beneficial things from the ownership of the factory, of the distribution process, because when the beneficial things is not for people, is the big problem.
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We we have a member in electricity supply chains, so they, our members, I mean, they got the cutting wages from the sub company of a state electricity company.
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And they say the cutting wages is normal, is a effect from industry.
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And because of that, we are investigating about the real situation, and we found that the sub company did corruption, did the fraud about the cutting wages reason.
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And then we did strike to the state electricity ownership or state electricity company for one day, and then the effect from the strike, the main company or state electricity company change the sub company.
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Because sub company is corrupt, and then the our members in electricity supply chain work with the new sub company.
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And the new sub company didn't cutting wages more.
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We got the justice, finally.
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Is about the mobilization, is about the capacity for strike, is about the awareness for fight injustice.
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We are collaborate thing with the some confederation and also labor party in Indonesia, we sit together and made some decisions, the first one, we we need to ratificate convention ILO number 190 about the gender-based violence.
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And then in our practice in the field, in our membership in the society, we need to improve about the gender awareness, and also improving larger unity, is not only about the workers and workers, that's a workers, farmers, student, and many groups.
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When we talk about the global production system and climate change, is a very important because we need to internationally principle, in my opinion.
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For example, we did solidarity for Germany construction workers when they need to increase their wages, so we send the letter, we send the photo and videos for solidarity to them.
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And also when the Korean workers and Panama Panamanian workers got the criminalization from the government, and Serbuk experience, we did the demonstration with the other federation in the front of South Korea Embassy in Indonesia, and also we send the letter to Panama government to stop the criminalization.
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We also did solidarity action for Myanmar, for Palestinian people, because the trade union must be lead of many issues that happened in the world.
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And is a very important beside the internationally principle of workers that is a economic situation, social situation, cultural situation, we need to aware with the any operation in this area.
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Our hope for international community will do to support our fight for climate and social justice, is a very important to workers for this case, increase their awareness about the internationally principle.
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Because the workers across the world actually is connected to each other, we need to share about the successful organizing and campaign from each other, and then did collaboration action, sharing research, and also redefining about the inclusive trade unions.
Topics:Serbuk Indonesiaclimate justiceworkers rightsjust transitiontrade unionsILO Convention 190labor solidarityIndonesia construction workersliving wagesgender-based violence
