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Australia to support Indonesia at ILO conference

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Antara - June 6, 1997

Canberra – Australia's labor federation will support Indonesia at an International Labor Organisation (ILO) conference to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, next june 12, a visiting Indonesian labor leader said here Thursday.

Bomer Pasaribu, chairman of the All-Indonesia Workers Union (SPSI), said he had obtained the promise of support in meetings he had held with Australian labor union executives in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney.

He said their policy was very friendly towards Indonesia as could be seen from an invitation from the Australian labor union to the SPSI to send delegates to a grand ACTU (Australian Confederation of Trade Unions) congress on September 1, 1997 in Melbourne.

The friendly attitude had come about after Indonesia gave autonomy to workers' sectors but not in the form of a federation, he said.

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