Indonesia - Boss sentenced to gaol for forbidding labour unions

On 22 October 2014, the Supreme Court of Indonesia upheld a lower court ruling about Hariyanto Hutomo Hidayat, the president director of furniture company PT Sri Rejeki Mebelindo, who was convicted of forbidding the formation of a labor union in the company.

Hariyanto dismissed 107 employees from the company, which operated in Pasuruan, East Java, after they started a labor union in 2009 to bargain for salaries that had been kept below the regional standard.

Bangil District Court sentenced him to one year in prison for violating Article 28 of the Labor Unions Law that bans anyone from prohibiting the establishment of labour unions. The East Java High Court later increased the sentence to 18 months, a ruling that was upheld by the Supreme Court.

Hariyanto, however, had apparently fled the country by the time the Court’s verdict was announced.

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