UNFAIR ADMINISTRATION OF LABOR LAWS/CORRUPTION IN COURTS//COMMENTS ON THE ATJEH DISTURBANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R001100870001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Unfair Administration of Labor um/Corruption in
Courte/comments on the &tjeh Disturbance
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numbering thous
old employees
ought In since the war.
Akpei
There is no shortage of labor now and experienijd en for eli types of work
except tapping are available. a sobxl for tappers where
maillimabout 100 enrolled in a three to four-week course.
The difficulty of complying with labor laws and the one-sided manner of
administering them discour
For the present
gathering, and
other work, sue
Contracts will be made
expending the number of IIIIemploy 0.
to carry on the routine work of
employed labor but
Jug,. and planting
con t
h c of kamponga and .hey can do
such work more cheeplyillillitand will received fairer treatment in labor
courts.
The chief diffic
needed and since
It Is not entirely assent
for small luxuries.
inahel
k, as money ear
n not
benefits
gelY
There in such &hitting of blame between the
failure to punieh natives guilty of illegal ta
the police would like to enforce the
natives arrested for willful destruction of as
after a day or two in jail.
The police clhim the Chinese remillers encourage illegal tapping to get the,
latex cheaper than they could through legitimate channels. They. promisee
the natives to care, for fewilieE of any tappers cht and buy their release
by the courts.
courts for the
destruction.
but are helpless when
party are released
7. The rebellious ettittde of the natives of Atjeh area is not new. Even in
pre-war days, under Dutch rule, the natives were never nnOer control. In
traveling the main road along the north coast, there were frog:mat stations
where everybody was checked.
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8. The recent upria1g was not unexpected. Estate owners had been warned a
week in advance by l employees who feared for the owners, safety. But
the Indonesian Gower nt can not cope with the situation.
9. This ie the area from which smuggling is carried on to the extent that
straits dollars are the medium of exchange and rupiaha will not be accepted.
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would probab
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ttle for a liberal degree of autonomy for the area if
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