{"id":163389,"date":"2020-10-06T01:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/06\/indonesia-mass-strikes-loom-over-cuts-to-environmental-safeguards-and-workers-rights\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T01:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:30:35","slug":"indonesia-mass-strikes-loom-over-cuts-to-environmental-safeguards-and-workers-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=163389","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia mass strikes loom over cuts to environmental safeguards and workers&#039; rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New law to boost investment is a \u2018tragic miscalculation\u2019, campaigners say, as unions plan strike action in protestIndonesia has passed a wide-ranging bill that will weaken environmental protections and workers\u2019 rights in an attempt to boost investment, a move condemned as a \u201ctragic miscalculation\u201d that could lead to \u201cuncontrolled deforestation\u201d.Groups representing millions of workers said they would strike on Tuesday in response to protest against the bill, which will amend about 1,200 provisions in 79 existing laws after it was pushed through parliament with unprecedented speed. Police said that a permit for the protest had not been approved, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/06\/indonesia-mass-strikes-loom-over-cuts-to-environmental-safeguards-and-workers-rights\" target=\"_blank\">Indonesia mass strikes loom over cuts to environmental safeguards and workers&#039; rights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New law to boost investment is a \u2018tragic miscalculation\u2019, campaigners say, as unions plan strike action in protestIndonesia has passed a wide-ranging bill that will weaken environmental protections and workers\u2019 rights in an attempt to boost investment, a move condemned as a \u201ctragic miscalculation\u201d that could lead to \u201cuncontrolled deforestation\u201d.Groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}