Police Bust Tangerang Factory for Forced Child Labor By Jakarta Globe on 12:38 pm May 4, 2013.

Police in Tangerang sealed a frying pan factory and arrested its owner, who allegedly held his underaged workers in captivity while forcing them to work without pay. The workers have been working for four months in the factory. Some of them escaped because they couldnt stand the torture and the owners behavior. They did not receive the rights they deserved, Tangerang Police Detective Unit chief Comr. Shinto Silitonga told Indonesian news portal Detik.com on Friday. Some of the laborers families decided to report the case to the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM). The commission, along with the Tangerang police and the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), raided the factory, located in Lebak Wangi village. Six workers some of whom were underage were found locked in a room. They were treated inhumanely, Shinto said. They factory owner gave them no access to health services, and they couldnt communica te with other people. Shinto remarked that the workers were in very bad condition when the police discovered them. They were suffering from various skin conditions due to the fact that they hadnt changed their clothes in months and were exposed to heavy metals. The workers were also locked inside a damp room without any sleeping accommodations. Their cellphones, wallets and clothes were confiscated by the factory owner and his wife. They also never received any pay, even though they were promised Rp 600,000 a month, he said. The factory owner and his wife have been arrested and will face charges. The police also detained 25 workers for questioning. The factory did not have an operational permit from the city of Tangerang, Shinto added. Komnas HAM Commissioner Siti Noor Laila stated that the case was uncovered when two workers Andi Gunawan, 20, Junaidi, 22 managed to escape the factory after working there for three months.

She said the workers were forced to work from 6 a.m. until 12 a.m. every day. After coordinating with Tangerang Police, Komnas HAM busted the factory and freed 46 workers. Tangerang Police Arrest 5 Suspects in Forced Child Labor Case By Bayu Marhaenjati on 1:10 pm May 5, 2013. The Tangerang Police on Sunday named seven people as suspects following a factory bust for forced child labor. There are seven suspects, we have detained five of them while two others remain at large because they resigned from their job two weeks before we busted the factory, Tangerang Police detective unit chief Comr. Shinto Silitonga told the Jakarta Globe on Sunday. Police arrested Yuki Irawan, the owner of the kitchenware factory, who allegedly held his underage workers in captivity while forcing them to work without pay. We also arrested four bodyguards who have treated the workers inhumanely, Shinto said, adding that the suspects have violated personal freedoms and committed physical torture. The case was uncovered when two workers Andi Gunawan, 20, Junaidi, 22 escaped from the factory after working for four months in poor conditions and without any pay. After escaping, the workers families filed a report to the National Commission of Human Rights (Komnas HAM). The human rights agency, Tangerang Police and the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) on Friday raided the factory, located in Lebak Wangi village, Banten. Six workers some of whom were underage were found locked in a room. A total of 46 workers who have been forced to work in poor conditions were released from the factory. Shinto said the workers were forced to work from 6 a.m. until midnight every day and sometimes were deprived of food.

Labor Workplace is worse than Prison Cells Tempo.co 6 may 2013 Have you entered the prison cell? When compared to cells with iron bars, it is more humane because there is still light coming from the grating bars. Well, the pot laborers sleeping room measuring 6 x 6 meters far worse than a prison cell. Pans and kitchen appliance factory in Kampung Bayur Opaque, Lebak Wangi village, Sepatan, Tangerang regency, became the subject of conversation because his boss, Yuki Irawan, has kept 25 workers for months. Confinement and tortured workers was uncovered after one of the workers fled. Tempo, Sunday, May 5, 2013, came into the room which was very bad. Not until a matter of five minutes, this chest feel bad; no fresh air, only two vents with dirty glasses. Paint was peeling off the walls. There was no mattress. Only a stretch mat that was torn here and there. It also does not cover the cement floor. Who would have thought, including local residents, that behind the two-floor luxury house, there is a camp where labor are tortured. The camp location is attached luxury home, on the back. There was no facility whatsoever except broken 12-inch television. Thick dust blanketing TV and fan that sat in the corner of the room was broken. Spiderwebs fill the ceiling. More tragic, near the broken fan, there are two plastic plates leaving rotten rice and a packet of salt. Labour likely eat it anyway without a side dish. They never eat nutritious foods. There is a small bedroom with a wooden door that is always locked when workers are sleeping inside. To go to this bedroom, there are muddy-floored room with toilet and bathroom was very dirty. "I do not bathe three months, do not change clothes and brush my teeth," said Arifudin previous day when Tempo at the Police station in Tigaraksa. The room itself could be called a large bins; ragged, raw material scattered everywhere, sheets of aluminum foil and pans sacks material were piled in that place.There are also wood and cardboard waste as fuel.

Marsudin, 50 years old, Yuki neighbor's, the rest of the neighboring citizens do not know and do not want to know what happened with the workers. When people see workers dressed in rags, they think it's so common because they work in contact with the dirty material. "I think they are so (ragged clothes)

because it works so (covered in soil and aluminum)," said Zainudin, another resident. Actually neighboring Residents are troubled by the presence of this plant for the waste contaminating the environment. But they are feared because Yuki has police/military personnel as back up. "We are only poor people; we do not want to deal with Yuki. said Marsudin.

Nine Victims are Still Traumatic Detik.com Nine victims of labor bondage SEPATAN plant pot, Tangerang, still twisted sense of trauma. Despite tend to be silent, regular anxiety still radiating from him. "We are still very afraid, Mas," said Arifudin, because two police officers who were security officers in the factory had escaped and not been arrested." For several months working on the CV Light Metals, Arifudin often get torture. Scars on the face and legs are caused by two factory security officers. Even Arifudin can still remember clearly suffered torture after torture. "Bark and often feels like a shot in the ear buzzing in my ears," he said softly. At home, Arifudin just want to meet journalists, district officers, and the police to tell the story. We will be glad if two people who often pointed long gun to labor and threatened to shoot were caught Officials could be involved in Tangerang slavery case Sita W. Dewi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Headlines | Mon, May 06 2013, 8:23 AM The National Police has launched an investigation into the practice of slavery at a waste-recycling factory in Tangerang, Banten, including an allegation that members of the Tangerang Police were involved in providing protection for the perpetrators. Head of the Tangerang Police detective unit Comr., Shinto Silitonga, said that some of the victims, who were forced to work in hellish conditions, told investigators that they had witnessed three police personnel providing protection for the illegal practice at the factory. Shinto said that the police were also investigating other irregularities including the forgery of documents used to set up the plant. The crime scene is in Sepatan Timur subdistrict, but the company permit was issued for a location in Cikupa, which is quite far from here, Shinto said. Late on Friday night, 34 workers from a factory in the East Sepatan district of Tangerang regency were freed from the torturous working hours and treatment meted out to them by their employer for two years. Tangerang regency police named Juki Irawan, 40, along with the firms four foremen, Tedi, Tio, Dirman and Poldes, as suspects for depriving the 34 individuals of their liberty and torturing them. Two other suspects were still at

large. The workers were forced to work 18 hours with only two meals a day and no pay, although they were promised a Rp 600,000 (US$62) monthly wage. Their cellular phones, clothes and wallets were confiscated and they were placed in a 6 by 8 meter room with no windows and forced to share a bathroom. Other workers said that they were crammed into a single bedroom where they had to rest after a long day at work. Some workers told horrific details about their incarceration with some saying that they had to use detergent to wash. Activists from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) said that some of the victims suffered from serious burns to their skin for working very close to a furnace used to boil tin that was used to produce a traditional frying pan. Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto, however, denied that members of the police could have any involvement in the criminal act. We did not find information from the questioning, he said. Rikwanto added that currently the local police in Tangerang are playing a mediation role in a dispute between the victims and their employers. A member of the House of Representatives Commission III overseeing legal and human rights, Eva Kusuma Sundari of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), called on the local police chief to start a probe into the possible involvement of security authorities in the area. The police should also question soldiers and policemen assigned to villages in the area because the illegal practices had gone on for months. I doubt if they did not know about it, Eva said. Eva also said that local officials in the area were complicit in the matter. I received information that the factory o wner has ties with a local leader in the area. The police should investigate the allegation that there are people who did not want this practice to be exposed, she told The Jakarta Post on Sunday. Separately, Muji Handaya, the director general of the Manpower and Transmigration Ministrys Development and Supervision department (PPK), said that the ministry is now working with local police to investigate the case. Muji said that the ministry will press separate charges against the factory owner. We are investigating possible violations of Law No. 13/2003 on Manpower. Law No. 5/1984 on Industrial Relations and Law No. 23/2003 on Child Protection, Muji said. As of Sunday evening, Muji said that all 34 had arrived in their hometowns in Cianjur, West Java and Lampung. Most of them were suffering from malnutrition and anemia. The hospitals medical staff had given them medication before they allowed these workers to go home, Muji said. (ogi) Muhaimin, Tangerang officials admit poor monitoring leads to slavery Bagus BT Saragih and Multa Fidrus, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Tue, May 07 2013, 9:51 PM Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar admitted that poor monitoring played a significant role behind the so-called slave factory in Tangerang, Banten. There are so many factories with less than 100 workers and they are very difficult to monitor particularly when operations are covered-up and hidden in 5

neighborhoods like the one in Tangerang, Muhaimin said at the State Palace recently. Separately, Tangerang regency secretary Iskandar echoed Muhaimins remarks. We apologize to the families of all 34 workers who received bad treatment as a result of the weak monitoring, said on Tuesday. He later said that if any of the workers wanted to go back to Tangerang to look for jobs, the regency administration would be more than willing to escort them to make sure that everything would be in line with the correct procedures. Tempo.co. 6 May 2013 Pot plant workers who had been locked Eligible Rp 1 M Department of Labor ordered the owner of CV Tangerang Regency Light Metals, pot producers in Kampung Bayur Opaque, Lebak Wangi village, Sepatan, to pay Rp 1 billion to pay its workers. The value of including wages for the workers work, overtime pay, and severance pay. "That does not include insurance and Social Security," said Head of Tangerang Regency Manpower, Heri Heryanto, when met at his office, Monday, May 6, 2013. Police raided CV Light Metals on Friday, May 3, 2013 ago and found dozens of workers held captive and enslaved. They were locked in the room uninhabitable measuring 8 x 6 meters. For months they do not receive a salary. According to Heri, the calculation of Rp 1 billion by cutting workers' wages to be paid by employers to their employees. Wages as much as 31 workers on average worked for four to seven months worth of USD 418 million, USD 418 million severance pay plus overtime, then valued at Rp 1 billion. Heri said, the Tangerang Department of Labor issued a determination order to pay on Monday, May 6, 2013. Further provisions will be coordinated to Tangerang City Police. KSPI Requests Tangerang Head Labor Office is fired. Detik.com 6 may 2013 Practices and violence against labor bondage mill pot / pan in Tangerang Kabupetan add long string of chaotic industrial relations between employers and employees. President of Indonesia Workers Unions Confederation (KSPI) Said Iqbal asks Head of Department of Labor (Kadisnaker) Kabupetan Tangerang Banten province being fired. According to him, this is a violation of criminal cases because of poor labor treatment by the factory owner. "Because of this case make clear that the system of work that is outsourced labor is carried by a frying pan and cheaper wages paid by that is Rp 700 thousand's of this right under the UMR Tangerang. Well as

weak oversight of their labor to work 18 hours / day. Cases like this are still raging in this Republic, "he said. It also asked the government to continue to do the research because it is possible that other cases involving workers and employers could unfold. It also supports the results of Supreme Court to punish operators who do not fit the rules impose labor. "This case has occurred close to Jakarta until we can be sure there are many similar cases in many places where labor wages paid under the UMP , and they have very long working hours. KSPI therefore uphold the decision by the MA (Supreme Court) that punish employers that pay wages below UMP as a protection for the workers, "he said. Questions: 1. on top of their illegal actions, discuss some (un) ethical issues in this case. Refer to some ethics in organization issues which have been discussed in class. 2. Discuss why those issues are unethical, based on utilitarianism, justice, and right principles. 3. What do you think the root cause of this case, and what can be done to make the situation better or to prevent this case from happening again.