saco-indonesia.com, Dalam kurun waktu 20 hari ini, pemutusan hubungan kerja (PHK) massal para pekerja tambang mineral terus bergulir. Namun, berbagai perusahaan tersebut juga tidak memberikan pesangon.

Sebagai bentuk atas kekecewaan, Solidaritas Para Pekerja Tambang Nasional (Spartan) telah membuat 1.000 makam di depan Tugu Proklamasi (Tuprok). 'Makam' tersebut telah melambangkan PHK tanpa pesangon seperti sebuah kematian.

makam tersebut telah terbuat dari papan sepanjang 50 cm. Terdapat pula, papan yang telah dibuat sebagai batu nisan dan ditulisi nama karyawan yang di PHK.

Selain itu, di atas makam juga diletakkan helm pekerja. Makam-makam tersebu telah dibariskan dan dijejerkan dengan rapi.

Dalam aksi itu mereka juga akan menuntut pemerintah untuk dapat memberikan ganti rugi dan pesangon. Pemerintah juga diminta untuk menyediakan lapangan kerja pengganti.

"Pemerintah harus salurkan listrik di desa yang selama ini diperoleh dari pengadaan listrik perusahaan tambang. Serta meminta Komnas HAM untuk pertanyakan ke pemerintah terkait PHK tersebut karena telah menghilangkan hak kami," ujar salah satu anggota Spartan, Juan Forti Silalahi.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.