Derailing the New Boss

PT Kereta Api Indonesia's newly-installed president director, Omar Berto, faces the protests of his employees. Why are they rejecting him?

February 12, 2002

Just two months after Badar Zainie gave up his job as President Director of PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), Omar Berto, the man who took over his job was asked to step down on the very day he was installed. The demand came from his own people, the KAI Labor Union.

The threat sounds serious: if Omar and other Board of Directors (BoD) members do not resign, they will go on strike. The first call came from the Bandung Chapter. They demanded tha

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