The PPBI conducts educational classes for workers. At the moment PPBI has branches in Bogor, Tangerang, North Jakarta, East Jakarta, Semarang, Solo, Surabaya and Medan. The president of PPBI is Dita Indah Sari. Dita is detained at the moment by Police Headquarters in Surabaya because she led a strike of 20,000 workers from 10 factories in Surabaya. PPBI headquarters is in Jakarta.
Students are amongst the most sensitive sectors to social political change.
It is not surprising that the democratic movement began with students. The student movement eventually changed its character to a political movement directly challenging the power of the New Order. But this political movement did not prove strong enough. So the student movement has tried to transform it to a peoples' movement. The formation of SMID cannot be separated from the increase in popular resistance and the change in the strategy of the student movement.