At the same time, Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) also attended the forum. This is clearly related to the business of reviving the WTO from its own ashes. Indonesia as a country that always promotes the resumption of the Doha Round is dead, concerned to re-do the same in this regional forum.
Yet the fact is: WTO Negotiations (especially related to agriculture, services and industry) has been suspended animation until nearly a decade. Attempts to revive has also repeatedly made: 2003 (Cancun, Mexico), 2004 (Geneva, Switzerland), 2005 (Hong Kong), 2008 (Geneva), 2009 (Geneva), through intensive meetings in early 2011 (Geneva )-ended hollow. These historical facts show there is a large gap between the world's poorest people-both in developed and developing countries and poor-with a giant model of transnational corporations.
The WTO is a new colonial style, which certainly will not take into account the interests of the people like small farmers, laborers, and fishermen as well-especially women and children, and ignoring environmental sustainability. Since its establishment in 1995, about 80 percent over the volume of world free trade obtains by giant transnational companies. The meaning of the establishment of the WTO to bring jobs and prosperity for the people was not realized.
Therefore, requests the Director-General Pascal Lamy, the WTO and neo-imperialism-sales in the primary mission to revive the WTO negotiations are suspended animation must clearly be rejected. Including state officials refused to anyone who knowingly uses his power to facilitate the return of his life as opposed to the WTO negotiating mandate of the constitution.
For that we are from organizations of farmers, fishermen, workers and civil society organizations demanded that the Indonesian government throwing in the WTO multilateral trade that has been proven to fail. Furthermore, we assessed the WTO have been endangering the lives of small people in the world, both farmers, laborers, fishermen, urban poor, students and exacerbated the damage lingkunngan. To that end, the WTO should be out of people's lives.
Indonesia must think about economic alternatives, based on the 1945 constitution, to build a just world. The economy should also advocated as a model of interstate commerce in the future, mainly based cooperative and economic democracy. This will menghempang unjust global economic structure is currently based corporation, no matter how oppressed the people and the environment.
Goodbye to the WTO, free trade and corporate-based economy!
Build democratic constitution based economy that is environmentally friendly, for the welfare and social justice!
Joint position statement:
Indonesian Peasants Union (SPI), Anti-Debt Coalition (YOU), Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI), the People's Coalition For Justice Fisheries (KIARA), States Fishermen Indonesia (SNI), Rim Studies Indonesia Action for Democracy (LS-ADI), Institute For Global Justice (IGJ), Indonesia Farmers Alliance (API), Third World Network (TWN), Indonesian Human Rights Committee For Social Justice (IHCS), Political Economy Association of Indonesia (AEPI).
