Brief History

KPRI grew out of the organization PERGERAKAN, which is an acronym for Association of Actors of People-based Advocacy for Social Justice or often referred to as People-Centered Advocacy Organization for Social Justice. PERGERAKAN as a membership-based organization was founded in 2003 and established through its first congress in 2005 in Bali by people organizations, NGOs and other social movement actors. However, the organization originally had been initiated in the period of 1999 to 2002 through a series of research, assessment, education as well as consolidation meetings held both on the national and the regional level. The processes involved dozens of civil society organizations and individuals that were directly involved in advocacy work in Indonesia.

At the first congress, PERGERAKAN consisted of 14 people unions (union of women, peasants, workers, fisherfolk, and indigenous peoples) and four individual members. At the second congress, the organization members grew to 24 people unions and six individual members. Under its constitution, individual members should not exceed 20% of the total number of members. The mechanism for selecting individual members was decided by registered people unions. After the third congress, the organizational form of PERGERAKAN transformed into a confederation, and the organization changed its name to Confederation of Indonesia People Movement (KPRI). This implied a change in the membership system of KPRI. Currently, KPRI consists of national-level federations of people organizations.

Principles, orientation, strategy and program of KPRI

1. KPRI aims at a society where each and everyone is able to work productively according to his or her abilities in order to live a happy life without exploitation. Wealth and products should be given back to the common wellbeing, in order to genuinely push forward equality in society. In other words, the orientation of the political-economic struggles of KPRI is a struggle for a system born out of a new political-economic culture and ethos which transforms society from its capitalist and individualistic features to a society based on socialist and collective principles.

2. The organization’s resources are to be directed to the democratic political struggle of the people movement in order to take over state power from capital’s interests. The organization’s activities are not to focus merely on advocacy work but transform it into an economic, social and political movement with the aim of collectively taking over power.

3. The organization consists of social movement organizations which put socialist principles in their social, economic and political programs into place; it is based on class politics as well as on its territorial anchoring. The organization as a collective is to become a place where the values and the economic and political relations that it aims for at are put in practice in its everyday activities.

4. KPRI will implement its road map for the seizure of power and the transformation of the movement in social, economic and political terms. Its target is the establishment of a political organization or a people’s party.

5. The alternative to the problems that the Indonesian people is facing is based on the synergy of agrarian justice and an encompassing, independent, just and sustainable alternative people’s economy serving the wellbeing of all people in society.

6. The organization crystallizes people’s struggles in order to create a strong coalition of people’s movements with the common aim of seizing power.

7. The organization’s political interventions take place both on the local and national level.

8. The broadening, growth and strengthening of the organization is to be realized through the collaboration of various sectors.

9. KPRI works on the establishment of an alternative people’s economy consisting of a people’s based organization of the production, distribution and consumption as well as of collective property and the institutionalized management of these four pillars which interlinks the potentials of resources between different sectors.

Members

KPRI consists of 87 people unions based in 22 provinces and 65 districts. Its member organizations are:

• Himpunan Serikat Perempuan Indonesia (HAPSARI)/ Association of Indonesia Women Unions:

SPI Tana Karo Simalem (North Sumatera), SPI Deli serdang ( North Sumatera), SPI Serdang Bedagai (North Sumatera), SPI Labuan Batu (North Sumatera), SPPN Serdang Bedagai (North Sumatera), SPI Pekalongan (Central Java), Serikat Perempuan Dayak (East Kalimantan), SPI Kulon Progo (Yogyakarta), Serikat Perempuan Bantul (Yogyakarta);

• Federasi Serikat Nelayan Nusantara (FSNN)/ Federation of Indonesia Fisherfolk Unions:

SNSU (North Sumatera), SNM (Serdang Bedagai, North Sumatera), SNL (Lampung), SNeB (Bengkulu), SNB (Pandeglang, Banten), SN KP (Pulau Seribu, Jakarta), SNT Indramayu (West Java), SNT Batang (Central Java), SNT North Jakarta, SNT Ketapang, HPNS (Sukabumi, West Java), SNPJ (Garut, West Java), LMNU (North Lombok, NTB), SNTP (Palu, Central Sulawesi), SNJ (Jember, East Java), SN North Sulawesi;

• Gabungan Serikat Buruh Independen (GASBI)/ Association of Independent Labor Unions: FSPK (West Java), FSBK (East Java), GSBN (South Sulawesi);

• Kesatuan Buruh Indonesia (KBI)/ Indonesia Workers Union:

PERBBUNI (North Sumatera), SERBUK (Sergai, North Sumatera), PERBUNI (Labuan Batu, North Sumatera), FSBKU (Tangerang, Banten), FSBKU (Jakarta)

• Persatuan Pergerakan Petani Indonesia (P3I)/ Indonesia Peasant Movement Union:

Serikat Petani Minahasa (North Sulawesi); Serikat Tani Gowa (South Sulawesi); Serikat Tani Takalar (South Sulawesi), SPK Bulukumba (South Sulawesi), PUTASI (North Sumatera), Serikat Tani Lampung (Lampung), BPRPI (North Sumatera), STAM (Yogyakarta), PPJ (Jambi), PPAB (Blitar, East Java), Lidah Tani (Central Java), Kesatuan Rakyat Tani (Bali), Serikat Tani Lebak (Banten), SPL Lumajang (East Java), SEKTI (Jember, East Java), ST Cigudeg (Bogor, West Java), SEPETAK (Karawang, West Java), STAB (Bengkulu), SERTANI (Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta), STKS (Sumedang, West Java), SPP-U (Subang, West Java), PPAB (Batang, Central Java), STPM, SPP (Garut, Tasikmalaya, Ciamis, West Java), Pertani Parlombun Tamput ;

• Gerakan Masyarakat Adat (GEMA)/ Indigenous People Movement :

BPRPI (North Sumatera), Perekat Ombara (Lombok, NTB), AMA (West Kalimantan);

• Federasi Serikat Pekerja dan Buruh Indonesia (FSPBI)/ Federation of Indonesia Worker and Labor Union:

FSPBI South Sulawesi, FSPBI South-East Sulawesi, dan FSPBI West Sulawesi;

Board of National Presidium

Chief : Lely Zailani (HAPSARI/North Sumatera)

Secretary : Mukhtar Guntur K (FSPBI/South Sulawesi)

Member : Ngurah (P3I/Bali)
Habib (P3I/Yogyakarta)
Anwar Sadad (P3I/South Sumatera)
Ahmad Kulle (P3I/South Sulawesi)
M.Nahir (FSNN/Nusa Tenggara Barat)
Tris Zamansyah (FSNN/North Sumatera)
Rusmawati (FSNN/North Sumatera)
Istuti Laili Lubis (HAPSARI/North Sumatera)
Kamardi Arif (GEMA/Nusa Tenggara Barat)
Hermawan (GASBI/West Java)
Iwan Ridwan (KBI/North Sumatera)

Executive Board

President : Anwar Ma’ruf

Vice President : Sapei Rusin

Department for Development of People Economic Bases : Jan Jan Eka Sulitiana

Department for Politic, Education, and Organizing : Yani Andre

Department for Secretariat, Advocacy, Media Relation, and Data & Information : Noviar Safari, Yani Maryani, Mateu El Jumhari

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