Jakarta – The Labour Party and the Confederation of the Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) is opposed to the government's plan to raise Value Added Tax (VAT) from 11 to 12 percent in 2025. Labour Party President and KSPI President Said Iqbal has threatened that they will hold demonstrations if the plan is not cancelled.

"If the government goes ahead and increases the VAT to 12 percent and does not increase the minimum wage in accordance with [our] demands, the KSPI together with other trade unions will hold a national strike involving 5 million workers throughout Indonesia", Iqbal said in a written statement on Tuesday November 19.

Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia is asking Tangerang Municipal Police (Polresta) investigators not to pursues a report against government critic and former State-Owned Enterprises Ministry (BUMN) secretary Said Didu for criticising the Pantai Indah Kapuk 2 (PIK) National Strategic Project (PSN).

Amnesty International Executive Director Usman Hamid believes that the police report against Didu by the Indonesian Association of Villages (Apdesi) is a form of criminalisation through the Information and Electronic Transition (ITE) Law. He also sees the report as being a rash and unnecessary act.

Larius Kogoya, Jayapura – Lince Ronsumbre, a two -year-old baby, and Lince Kafiar, a sick grandmother, were rushed to the Abepura Regional General Hospital (RSUD) on Thursday November 15 after suffering the effects of teargas.

The teargas was fired by security forces to disperse a peaceful action by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) rejecting the transmigration program to Papua at the Abepura traffic circle in Jayapura city, Papua.

Larius Kogoya, Jayapura – The West Papua National Committee or KNPB firmly rejects the revival of the transmigration program in Papua. The KNPB is aware that Papuans will be sidelined, so transmigration must be rejected.

This opposition was declared during a demonstration in Abepura, Jayapura city, on Friday November 15. "For the KNPB militarism is better than transmigration, because transmigration will kill the Papuan cultural race", said the KNPB field coordinator Messi Silak.