Jakarta – Ahead of May Day 2025, Secretary General of the Confederation of All Indonesian Trade Unions (KSBSI) Dedi Hardianto emphasized that he supports every government policy that can improve the welfare of workers, policies to improve welfare must continue to be supported.
“If our country supports it. As long as the government’s policy is good, we will support the policy,” he said.
KSBSI ensures that it will continue to hold the May Day 2025 action while maintaining the security and public order situation. “We will convey our opinions in accordance with the agreed methods,” he said.
Furthermore, the Secretary General of KSBSI said that the action activities must continue to be carried out peacefully, this is a celebration even though we voice various demands such as wages, working hours, and workers’ rights, but we must remain peaceful.
“We are a peaceful demonstration, we must remain peaceful, we cannot not. We are celebrating, even though we are voicing problematic working hours, problematic wages, problematic workers’ rights, we remain peaceful,” he continued.
Furthermore, the Secretary General of KSBSI emphasized that he still supports the policies of the Prabowo Subianto government. He also hopes that the government can open a space for dialogue with workers in making laws. However, the government also provides space for workers to contribute to making laws. Community involvement will be able to provide strong legitimacy to the policies made.
On various previous occasions, the May Day commemoration was often used as a momentum to voice the demands of workers’ interests. Not infrequently, there were provocations that could harm the peaceful actions of workers in the field.
While on another occasion, the Central Java Police Chief, Inspector General Ribut Hari Wibowo, invited the public who would hold May Day actions to maintain a peaceful atmosphere, and to be aware of provocative efforts that could potentially damage unity. Everyone must maintain a humanistic rhythm in conveying the demands of the action on the upcoming May Day.
The Regional Police Chief hopes that the activity of conveying aspirations can take place conducively. The Regional Police Chief advised all participants to follow the activity in an orderly manner and be vigilant so that the delivery of aspirations is not taken advantage of by other parties.
“Regarding the activity on May 1 tomorrow, I hope it can run safely, without leaving any negative excesses, therefore let us together realize the delivery of aspirations in an orderly and conducive manner,” he said.
May Day celebration is a momentum for workers to show maturity of attitude that is able to uphold dignity and intelligence in conveying aspirations of their demands. Maintain the momentum of May Day so that there are no provocations and security disturbances that can tarnish the celebration.