A Seven-Generation Debt
Several former Hotel Shangri-La employees and the hotel's staff union leaders have been ordered to pay Rp20.7 billion compensation. The district court has seized their houses.
November 13, 2001
There is no justice for the poor. On Thursday November 1, 2001, the South Jakarta District Court ordered five former Hotel Shangri-La employees and two Hotel Shangri-La worker's association directors, to pay Rp20.7 billion in compensation to their former boss. According to the council of magistrates, chaired by I Dewa Gde Putra Djadnya, the defendants had staged labor demonstrations and strikes that caused loss to PT Swadharma Kerry Satya, as the ...