Refleksi : Beda dengan Indonesia. Di Indonesia presidentnya tak berani ngutik bilioner untuk ganti rugi kepada korban lumpur Lapindo yang hingga kini tak kunjung selesai masalahnya, malah penderitaan korban lumpur dipakai menjadi bahan kampnye pemilu oleh para capers-capers dengan memberi gambaran bahwa mereka berpihak kepada para korban. Apakah kampanye demikian adalah akal-bulus para capers, walahualam, hanya waktu saja yang akan bisa memberitahukan.
http://newspaper.tmt.imedia.ru/article/600/42/378053.htm Putin Takes Control in Angry Town 05 June 2009 By Natalya Krainova / The Moscow Times Moving quickly to stamp out growing unrest, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew to the small town of Pikalyovo on Thursday to demand that angry workers receive wage arrears and rebuke their delinquent employers. Putin told the owners of the town's three factories that the government had transferred 41.24 million rubles ($1.34 million) to their Sberbank accounts on Wednesday and they had until the end of the day to pay their workers. "All wage arrears must be settled," Putin said at a meeting with owners and government officials. "The deadline is today." Turning to the owners, including tycoon Oleg Deripaska, owner of one of the plants, Putin offered a stinging rebuke of their business practices. "You have made thousands of people hostages to your ambitions, your lack of professionalism -- or maybe simply your trivial greed," Putin said in remarks shown on state television. "Why was everyone running around like cockroaches before my arrival? Why was no one capable of making decisions?" He threw a pen at a contract and told Deripaska to sign it. The document was a three-month contract with PhosAgro, a producer of raw materials, to resume supplies, Interfax reported. Andrei Kostin, head of VTB, the country's second-biggest bank, told Putin at the meeting that his bank could provide money to Deripaska's factory, BaselCement, to resume production by next Tuesday, Interfax reported. Putin's visit underlined government jitters that the unrest seen in Pikalyovo, a Leningrad region town where about 500 people blocked a major highway on Tuesday over wage arrears, causing a 400-kilometer traffic jam, could spread rapidly to other towns with similar problems. Alexei Nikolsky / RIA-Novosti / Reuters Prime Minister Vladmir Putin speaking to billionaire Oleg Deripaska at a meeting of factory owners in the town of Pikalyovo on Thursday. Putin threw a pen at Deripaska and told him to sign a contract as he rebuked owners for allowing a problem with wage arrears to lead to protests this week. Putin suggested Thursday that someone might have financed the road blockade to stir up trouble, but he did not say who it might have been. He said the factory owners had three months to resolve their problems. "If the owners cannot agree among themselves, then the ... complexes will be restarted anyway," Putin said. "If you cannot agree among yourselves, it will be done without you." The owner of one of the other factories told workers that they would be back at their jobs in a week and a half, The Associated Press reported, citing a worker. The BaselCement plant, which produces cement and alumina, closed in January over growing prices from suppliers, leaving its 2,500 employees jobless. The shutdown forced the other two plants, linked to BaselCement in the supply chain, to suspend operations, putting another 1,300 workers out of work. The other plants are Pikalevsky Cement, which is part of Evrocement Group, and SevZavProm's Metakhim. On Tuesday, the protesters cleared the road only after Leningrad Governor Valery Serdyukov ordered that 5 million rubles ($163,000) be sent to cover wage arrears to some factory workers. The money was also intended to turn the town's hot water back on, which was cut after residents could not pay their utility bills. A senior United Russia lawmaker submitted a bill to the State Duma on Wednesday to nationalize the troubled factories for 1.5 billion rubles ($50 million) as a way to restore production there. The move threatens to open a Pandora's box for the government by encouraging laid-off workers in hundreds of other one-factory [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
