Dita Indah Sari

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Dita Indah Sari
Occupation Trade unionist, social activist

Dita Indah Sari is an Indonesian trade union and socialist activist. As a human rights campaigner during the Suharto regime, she was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in 1996 on the charge of sedition.[1] After her release in 1999 she was elected Chairperson by the Congress of the National Front for Indonesian Workers Struggle (FNPBI). In 2002 she refused a $50000 human rights award from Reebok as a form of protest for what she considers is the company's poor record on the issue of workers rights.[2] Politically she is the leader of the PRD, a socialist party within the broader Papernas alliance. She is running for President of Indonesia in 2009.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGPOL100011998?open&of=ENG-200 Amnesty International Report 1998
  2. ^ Dita Sari: Why I Rejected the Reebok Human Rights Award


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