page_title: Marsinah
section_title: Murder
hierarchical_section_title: Marsinah / Murder
caption_attribution_description: English: On the 25th anniversary of the murder of trade unionist Marsinah a demonstrator waves a flag with the caption "workers' hero and people's hero." The demonstration called for a proper investigation into Marsinah's murder, believed to have been carried out by the military, but unsolved to this day.
context_page_description: Marsinah was an independent trade unionist employed in a watch factory in East Java, Indonesia, whose rape and murder drew international attention to the Suharto dictatorship's brutal repression of workers.
  Marsinah was serving as a negotiator for 500 workers striking over failure to implement the minimum wage and trade union autonomy. On May 4th, she was kidnapped following a demonstration; her body was found four days later. The military is widely believed to have been involved in her disappearance and subsequent death.
context_section_description: On 5 May the Sidoarjo District Military Command summoned 13 workers to its headquarters and forced them to sign letters of resignation, with 8 more to follow in the next couple of days. Outraged by this turn of events, Marsinah decided to go there herself and demand an explanation that very same day. She was never seen alive again.
caption: Demonstration on the 25th anniversary of Marsinah's murder, Jakarta, 8 May 2018. The text reads "Marsinah – workers' hero and people's hero"
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