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People's Democratic Party (Indonesia)
Sosialis Australia Tolak Rencana Pusat Suaka di Timor Leste
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8 Juli 2010 -- Berdikari -- Aktivis partai Aliansi Sosialis (Socialist Alliance – SA) di Australia menolak rencana PM Julia Gillard untuk membangun pusat pemrosesan suaka regional di Timor Leste.
Kandidat SA dari Perth, Alex Bainbridge, menggambarkan bahwa rencana menampung pencari suaka Australia di Timor Leste bukan didasarkan atas belas kasihan dan keadilan, sebagaimana dikatakan oleh PM tersebut, melainkan untuk mendorong pemenjaraan lebih banyak lagi.
“Kebijakan yang sesungguhnya kita butuhkan adalah yang berdasarkan belas kasihan dan rasa keadilan – yakni menempatkan mereka di tengah-tengah komunitas [masyarakat] Australia,” kata Bainbridge.
“Fakta sederhananya, pemenjaraan adalah pemenjaraan – apakah pemenjaraan itu di Pulau Christmas atau Leonora, Timor Leste atau Nauru,” tambahnya.
Asian left: `Lift the siege on Gaza! Support boycott, divestment and sanctions on apartheid Israel'
Statement by Asian left organisations
[To add your
organisation’s endorsement, please email: international@socialist-alliance.org.]
June 25, 2010
-- As Israel stands increasingly isolated following its manufactured confrontation
on May 31, 2010, with the peace flotilla in which nine Turkish activists on the
Mavi Marmara were murdered, now is
the time to increase the pressure on Israel to lift the siege of Gaza.
Israel’s
criminal blockade of Gaza is aimed to collectively punish 1.5 million Gazans
for their choice of government.
The attack on
the flotilla was aimed at demoralising Palestinians and their supporters. But,
as we've seen from the global protests – particularly in Turkey and the Arab
world – it has backfired on the Netanyahu government. Turkey, once a close
political and military ally, has now distanced itself from Israel and supports
attempts to break the Gaza blockade.
Indonesian solidarity with the democracy struggle in Thailand
Solidarity protest at the embassy of Thailand, Jakarta, Indonesia, May 25, 2010. Another slideshow below. Made with Slideshow Embed Tool.
Democracy and humanity for the people of Thailand
Jakarta, May 25, 2010 -- Since March, the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as the Red Shirts, began a massive protest against the Abhisit Vejjajiva government. A government that came to power not through democratic elections but installed by the military and endorsed by the monarchy.
Asian left parties: `In solidarity with the Greek people's resistance against austerity'
The following joint statement of
solidarity -- initiated by Socialist
Alliance, Australia -- has been signed by a number of
left and progressive organisations in
the Asia-Pacific region. If your organisation would like to sign on,
please
email international@socialist-alliance.org.
Joint statement from Asia-Pacific left and progressive organisations
May 13, 2010
We, left and progressive organisations from the Asia-Pacific region, express our solidarity with the resistance of the Greek people against the harsh austerity being imposed upon them by the governments of the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The proposed “rescue package” for the Greek economy by the IMF-EU has triggered a huge struggle that will have worldwide ramifications for working people.
Asian left parties: `Support the struggle for democracy and social justice in Nepal'
Kathmandu, May 4, 2010.
The following joint statement of
solidarity -- initiated by Socialist
Alliance, Australia -- has been signed by a number of left and progressive organisations in
the Asia-Pacific region. If your organisation would like to sign on, please
email international@socialist-alliance.org.
* * *
May 6, 2010
On May Day, international workers’ day, a huge demonstration of between
500,000-1 million people took place in Kathmandu. Called by the Unified
Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M), people came from all over Nepal to
make their voices heard.
Pernyataan Bersama untuk Thailand: Selesaikan Krisis melalui Demokrasi, Bukan Represi
Pernyataan Bersama Regional
Parti Sosialis
Malaysia
(PSM); Perhimpunan
Rakyat Pekerja (PRP) Indonesia; Partai
Rakyat Demokratik (PRD) Indonesia; Turn
Left Thailand; Socialist Alliance
(Australia); Partido Lakas ng Masa (Philipina);
Solidarity (Australia)
April 10,
2010 -- Kami
sangat prihatin dengan situasi yang kini terjadi di Thailand, dimana
Perdana
Menteri yang didukung militer, Ahbisit Vejjajiva telah menyatakan Negara
dalam
keadaan darurat dan memulai tindakan represi berdarah dalam menghadapi
meningkatnya eskalasi protes menuntut pemilihan umum ulang yang bersih.
Keadaan semakin mengkuatirkan karena pemerintah Thailand telah menutup
semua
media oposisi dan memberikan kekuasaan kepada angkatan bersenjata untuk
melakukan tindakan represif terhadap demonstran Red Shirts. Pasukan
bersenjata
Thai telah mempergunakan persenjataan yang berlebihan termasuk tank dan
peluru
tajam, dalam menghadapi para demonstran pro demokrasi di Bangkok.
Tailandia: Resolver la crisis a través de la democracia, no con la represion
Tailandia se encuentra en una profunda crisis. Las cargas policiales y
militares han matado a 21 personas y herido a unas 900. Los “camisas
rojas” protestan por la falta de libertades en el país. Os envío la
declaración solidaria con la lucha del pueblo tailandés suscrita por
organizaciones de Malasia, Indonesia, Tailandia, Filipinas y Australia. (Gracias G. Buster.)
Declaración regional conjunta de Partido Socialista de Malasia
(PSM), Asociación de Trabajadores de Indonesia (PRP), Partido
Democrático del Pueblo (PRD), Giro a la Izquierda de Tailandia,
Alianza Socialista de Australia, Partido Lakas ng Masa
Filipinas
Estamos profundamente preocupados por la actual situación en Tailandia donde el primer ministro que está apoyado por los militares Ahbisit Vejjajiva ha declarado el estado de emergencia y ha empezado una sangrienta campaña en medio de una escalada de protestas pidiendo nuevas elecciones.
อภิสิทธิต้องลาออก ต้องยุบสภาเพื่อให้มีการเลือกตั้ง!! ต้องเคารพสิทธิในการประท้วง ต้องหยุดควบคุมสื่อ!!
แถลงการณ์พรรคสังคมนิยมมาเลยเซียและองค์กรสังคมนิยมอื่นๆ
ในเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้
เรา องค์กรสังคมนิยมในประเทศเพื่อนบ้าน
มีความเป็นห่วงอย่างยิ่งเกี่ยวกับสถานการณ์ในประเทศไทย เนื่องจากรัฐบาลของ
อภิสิทธิ เวชชาชีวะที่มีทหารหนุนหลัง
ได้มีการประกาศภาวะฉุกเฉินท่ามกลางการประท้วงของประชาชนเพื่อเรียกร้องให้มี
การเลือกตั้ง
สถานการณ์ปัจจุบันในประเทศไทย
ยิ่งน่าเป็นห่วงเพราะรัฐบาลปิดกั้นสื่อเสรีและใช้อำนาจตาม
พรก.ฉุกเฉินที่สามารถใช้ความรุนแรงต่อผู้ประท้วงได้
Thailand: Asia-Pacific left statement -- `Resolve crisis through democracy, not crackdown!'
April 10, 2010 -- News footage of Thailand's security forces opening fire on Red Shirt pro-democracy protesters.
By Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), Working People's Association (PRP) of Indonesia, People’s Democratic Party (PRD) of Indonesia, Turn Left Thailand, Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) of the Philippines, Socialist Alliance of Australia, Solidarity (Australia)
April 10, 2010 -- We are deeply concerned over the current situation in Thailand where military-backed Prime Minister Ahbisit Vejjajiva has declared a state of emergency and started a bloody crackdown amidst escalating protests calling for a fresh election.
The Peoples Democratic Party and Indonesia's poor majority
Kampung Guji Baru is just one of the many shanty settlements in the megacity of Jakarta, where an estimated 3 million poor people try to survive. Now its residents face forced eviction after greedy developers, corrupt government officials and the "land mafia" conspired to get the courts to do their bidding through fraudulent claims and documents. The developers want to build multistorey luxury apartments and more shopping malls for the rich. The residents and the Poor People's Union (Serikat Rakyat Miskin Indonesia, SRMI) are resisting and they ask for your solidarity.
[See also Indonesia: People's Democratic Party relaunched as `open, mass-based cadre party'.]
By Peter Boyle
Indonesia: People's Democratic Party relaunched as `open, mass-based cadre party'
By Peter Boyle
March 11, 2010 -- An historic decision to relaunch itself as an open party was made at the seventh congress of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) of Indonesia on March 1-3. The party's socialist politics will be expressed within the five principles laid out by Indonesia's first President Sukarno's June 1, 1945, speech on “Pancasila” (nationalism, internationalism, democracy, socialism and belief in god).
“For the last decade and a half we have organised both above and below ground because of repression”, the new Secretary-General of the PRD, Gede Sandra, explained to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal and Green Left Weekly. “But since the fall of the Suharto dictatorship there has been more democratic space and we need to maximise the opportunities this presents to build our party.”
The congress resolved to do this through:
Indonesia: Thousands protest Yudhoyono's 100th day in office
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Photos by Ulfa Ilyas (above) and PRP International (below)
Jakarta, Indonesia -- January 28, 2010 -- Thousands of Indonesians staged a mass protest in front of the presidential palace. The protesters criticised the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's neoliberal policies and corruption on its 100th day in office.
Indonesia: Anti-corruption protests follow bank bailout
On December 9, 2009, protests against corruption were held in Indonesia. Above are those organised by the People's Democratic Party. Photos by Roso Suroso, Ririn Sefsani, Ulfa Ilyas and Rudi Hartono. Made with Slideshow Embed Tool.
December 9, 2009 -- The great photos above are of a mass demonstration in Jakarta on International Anti-corruption Day December 9, 2009, just one of many demonstrations against corruption have been sweeping Indonesia protesting allegations that a US$600 million government bailout was given to Century Bank on condition that some of the money be used to fund President Yudhoyono's re-election campaign.
Indonesia: President's inauguration marked by anti-neoliberal protests
Street Parliament Alliance protest, Jakarta, October 20. Photos by Ulfa Ilyas.Made with Slideshow Embed Tool
By Ulfa Ilyas, Surabaya
October 20, 2009 -- Berdikari -- Thousands of people protested at the national parliament building in Jakarta today, during the inauguration of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as Indonesia's new president and Boediono as vice-president. Protesters demanded that the president put an end to neoliberal policies during his second term, because they have been proven to be a failure and have brought suffering to the people of the world, including Indonesia.
East Timor: The struggle for full independence — 10 years on
By Mericio Akara, translated by Vannessa Hearman
September 30, 2009 -- Dili -- What is commemorated as Timor Leste’s (East Timor) “liberation” is the United Nations-facilitated referendum on August 30, 1999.
East Timor, which had been a Portugese colony, was already an independent country, as a result of the pro-independence political party Fretilin declaring East Timor independent on November 28, 1975. But barely days after the independence proclamation, on December 7, 1975, the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia used all its military firepower to invade Timor Leste.
The invasion was brutal and the occupation lasted 24 years before the UN referendum in 1999. During the occupation, the Indonesian military tortured and slaughtered our people. Such terrible acts became an everyday spectacle in Timor Leste.
Indonesia: Parliament of the Streets demands free education and health care, housing for the poor
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Photos and text by Ulfa Ilyas
On August 25, 2009, a demonstration was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, organised by the Parliament of the Streets Alliance at the inauguration of newly elected members of parliament. The protesters demanded free education for all citizens, free health programs, employment and housing programs for poor people.
Henri Anggoro, a leader of the Poor People’s Union (Serikat Rakyat Miskin Indonesia, SRMI), which organises in the sprawling shanty towns, said that experience has shown that parliament ignores the interests of the people. "They only represent the interests of a handful of people, rather than representing the people who elected them", he said.
Indonesia: Protest napalm bomb attack on farmers' settlement!
By Papernas (National Liberation Party of Unity, Indonesia)
December 18, 2008 -- About 1000 thugs sent by PT Arara Abadi and directly led by 500 police, under Riau regional police commander Alex Mandalika, unsparingly attacked, destroyed and burned houses using napalm bombs in Suluk Bongkal village, Riau Province, Indonesia. A two-year-old girl died in the attack.
The attackers said the villagers were newcomers who must be evicted. They were also falsely accused of having ilegally cleared state-owned forest. According to our information, Suluk Bongkal village has been legally acknowledged in the state map made after the Dutch cooperated with the Siak kingdom (around 1940), and in 1959 (after independence) the area was designated as customary rights forest (for Sakal tribe); Suluk Bongkal was included in it. Suluk Bongkal villagers have lived peacefully with the other citizens and surrounding tribes.
Indonesia: Activists debate electoral tactic
Indonesia: Tracing a path towards parliament
By Kelik Ismunanto
November 29, 2008 -- After such a long period of time in a vacuum, uncertain of how to respond to changes caused by neoliberal economic policies, little by little, democracy movement activists have been able to wrest back the political podium.
In the last few months, several national television stations provided a political stage for activists such as Dita Sari, Budiman Sujatmiko, Pius Lustrilanang and other young activists who are contesting the 2009 elections, to explain their reasons for choosing the parliamentary tactic.
Among young activists, there are opinions in favour and against this tactic.
Indonesia: Anti-communism in the age of reformasi: the case of Papernas
By Vannessa Hearman
May
20, 2008 -- In 2006, some long-term Indonesian activists in the People’s
Democratic Party (PRD), such as Dita Sari and Agus ``Jabo’’ Priyono, reflected
on how the post-1998 reformasi
movement would respond to the 2009 general election. In June 2006, a number of
activists and organisations, including eight national organisations such as the
Indonesian Buddhist Students’ Association (HikmahBudhi), the National Students’
League for Democracy (LMND) and the Urban Poor Union (SRMK) met in Jakarta to
agree to establish Papernas (the National Liberation Party of Unity). Around 40
local groups of farmers, workers, students and advocacy groups in Flores,
Sumatra, Maluku, Java and Kalimantan also supported this initiative. PRD
activists have made Papernas their key political project in the last few years,
which also has created debates and splits inside the PRD over the question of
electoral alliances in coming elections.
Conference reaffirms Marxism in the 21st century
"In the world, the tendency today is to bury Marxism and communism. The equation is simple: the collapse of the European socialist bloc is the end of the ideology and the theory that inspired their existence. But Marxist and communist ideas have today, perhaps more than ever, the possibility of demonstrating their viability.”
With these words Maria Luisa Fernandez, the Cuban consul-general, opened the Marxism 2000 conference in Richmond, just outside of Sydney, from January 5 to 9. Her speech followed a welcome by Colin Giles, a representative of the local Darug Aboriginal people.
Marxism 2000, initiated and organised by the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), was the second Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference; the first was held in April 1998, also in Sydney.
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