But it seems the meeting was accused as a meeting venue for groups defending the capitalist state , and accused of marginalizing a group of workers and peasants . That's why India adamantly opposed Bali package deal .
According Salamuddin Daeng , researchers and economists The Institute for Global Justice ( The Institute ) there are some alasa why we should reject the WTO meeting in Bali .
First , he said , the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) is the brain / neoliberalism 's grandfather , who want to liberalize trade by eliminating all forms of protection of a country's domestic economy , the financial deregulation of the financial sector as a service menemptkan and money as a mere commodity trade , and privatization of public sector to encourage the opening of private investment in the public sector .
Secondly , according to him , the WTO Bali in December 2013 will bring the agenda called Bali package consisting of the restrictions of agricultural subsidies , trade fasilitation / facilities such as the elimination of trade tariffs / duties , which will further bankrupt farmers and national industry .
The WTO has also brought development agenda that it is none other than the project 's debt from global financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , World Bank ( WB ) , Asian Development Bank ( ADB ) and other international investment banks , brokers international gangs ensnare countries poor with debt . Indonesia is a clear example of how an entangled state with debt and subject to the foreign agenda .
WTO , he added , is the parent treaty of berbgai Free Trade Agreement ( FTA ) which is a form of binding international agreements ( legally binding ) . WTO and FTA is the source of the destruction of the Indonesian economy . WTO and FTA is an agreement that is binding and if breached will bring Indonesia to international arbitration .
WTO , he said , will be plunged Indonesia in import dependence . Opening import / elimination of tariffs and the removal of all forms of protection of the domestic economy led to Indonesia depend on food imports , imports of industrial raw materials ahirnya cause large trade deficits .
In addition , the WTO , he added , would further increase the balance of payments deficit . Development agenda and the opening of import that brought the WTO triggers an increase in the foreign debt . Furthermore, foreign debt is used to finance imports of food and industrial products . As a result of accumulation of foreign debt maturing cause huge balance of payments deficit as a result of capital outflows to finance imports , debt repayments and debt maturity .
In addition to the WTO led to increasingly shrinking state budget . WTO free trade policies through the removal of export duties , elimination of import duties , will further depress state revenues . As a result, the deficit in the state budget that causes swells increasingly leaned back country of the foreign debt financing .
'' The trade deficit , the current account deficit and a deficit in the balance sheet has led to increasingly terperosoknya pembyaran the rupiah against the U.S. dollar and other currencies will increase / double the foreign debt , the prices of imported food , which is destroying the country and the people '' .
He also emphasized that the WTO will further lead to the destruction of the national agriculture and industry . APEC encourages the elimination of agricultural subsidies and other domestic support such as subsidies and demanded enforcement of patent / haki in pertnian and industry . All of the ahirnya will facilitate business and harm the interests of multinational corporations Indonesian people .
WTO basically running political split bamboo , developing countries trampled , while the interests of developed countries dijujung . In the case of a claim on the import ban tobacco and tobacco products to the United States ( U.S. ) , though the dispute penyelesian body ( DSB ) of the WTO won Indonesia , but the country does not ever want to run the U.S. and the WTO does not impose sanctions on the United States .
'' WTO will be a tool for the regime of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ( SBY ) in increasing the popularity and personal gain by undercutting the market , natural resources and economic kekaayaan to a foreign country . Sale cheap natural resources , Indonesia to foreign market will clearly benefit himself and his family personally or SBY regime officials around who get commission from selling the foreign nation and the state , '' he added .
According to him , the implementation of the WTO and APEC meeting in Bali in Bali is done without the approval of Parliament , particularly in the use of the state budget and deployment of state security forces . As such it is a form of government of SBY corruption . Though the WTO agenda has clearly detrimental to the people .
According Salamuddin Daeng , WTO violate Pancasila , the 1945 Constitution and Democracy . WTO dilalakukan is exlusive , does not involve the people , do not involve legislative branches , but done by a handful of elite executives . Whereas all decisions taken regarding state sovereignty and safety of people and the salvation of humanity .
In addition, the Indonesian NGO for Global Justice ( The Institute ) wants meeting World Trade Organization ( WTO ) should not be used as a platform to simply search for a solution satisfactory to all parties concerned .
" We deplore the statement by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said a win - win solution ( satisfying all parties ) , " said Executive Director of The Institute Riza Damanik in Nusa Dua , on Tuesday.
According to Riza , a statement of the heads of state potentially making farmers and fishermen Indonesia threatened to become a bigger thing .
He argues , it is actually the poor in Indonesia are not currently in need of a "win -win " but needs to regain the rights they should receive .
" We must protect our citizens from malnutrition , we must protect our jobs , protect our citizens from poverty , " he said .
Riza explained , what is done by the United States and Europe by providing huge subsidies to their agriculture , but at the same time prohibiting the provision of subsidies to developing countries is not a " win -win " .
To that end , The Institute urged that the rights of society including farmers and fishermen below can be taken fully into account in the negotiations related to the subsidy .
As is known , a number of NGOs have mobilized fishermen and farmers held a demonstration to reject the WTO and this meeting is considered as a failure of the multilateral system of the organization .
Earlier, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the global trading system should be in favor of all countries, both developing and developed due to the nature of trade must involve all parties in the same position .
" Providing opportunities for poor countries in trade gives them the opportunity to thrive . Opportunity we have to improve . Success we are in Bali this is when it can provide the impetus for the expansion of global trade , which in turn helps reduce poverty , " the president said during the opening session of the WTO in Nusa Dua Bali , Tuesday ( 3/12 ) .
President invites all parties that there is to jointly realize a balance in the trade so that all sides get the same advantages and benefits of the global trading system are arranged and mutually agreed
Conference of the WTO , negotiations are still a lot of Bali Package
Negotiations in the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization ( WTO KTM ) - 9 which is expected to produce a package of Bali is still held tough , especially because of the lack of agreement between India and the United States and developed countries Agriculture or Agriculture related packages .
" There are some countries that have not agreed , such as India and South Africa , " said Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan told reporters , in Nusa Dua , Bali , on Thursday .
According to Gita , currently India is still not softened attitude associated with one of the points contained in the Agricultural Package associated with food security stocks interim solution and also the use of reference prices 1986-1988 .
Gita explains , although until Wednesday night ( 4/12 ) the majority of WTO member countries support for dibuahkannya Package Bali , but India still persist with the principles of food security and wants a permanent solution related to it .
" I have talked with the Director General of the WTO , the United States , India and the European Union to find a solution , " he said .
Gita recognizes that no particular approach that is prepared but just pure bridge between the interests of the developed and developing countries .
" But all of them said that wanted to get out of Bali with Bali Package , " Gita said .
Settlement negotiations to produce a package of Bali still persist and have not approved the implementation of food security stocks interim solution .
In the negotiations associated with the interim solution , developed countries have agreed to the proposal in fact developing countries to subsidize more than 10 percent of national output , but also provide a period of time against such subsidies .
Given during the period of 4 years was not accepted by India who want a permanent solution and also the presence of the new price adjustment and no longer use the reference price from 1986-1988 .
" When I saw all those optimistic to be able to get a permanent solution within 4 years , but India felt there should be a guarantee of what steps should be taken if after 4 years of no permanent decision , " he said .
Earlier, on Wednesday ( 4/12 ) , the Minister of Commerce and Industry of India , Anand Sharma asserted that the country with a population of approximately 1.2 billion people that will not change attitudes related to food security stocks interim solution .
" India will not be any negotiation or compromise related to food security , public safety need a backup supply of food and WTO rules should be corrected , " said Sharma , in the Plenary Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization 9th , in Nusa Dua , Bali .
Sharma said , because the relevant public security require the supply of food reserves , judging it to be formulated permanent solution , not temporary. Currently , India's position is still persist and have not approved the interim solution associated with the implementation of food security stocks .
In the WTO Ministerial Conference 9th , Indonesia expects Bali Package can be agreed , the package contains " Trade Facilitation , Agriculture and LDCs " .
The European Parliament believes " Bali Package " which became a deal Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) will be able to overcome the gap between developing countries with underdeveloped countries .
" Bali package I think is very important because it will bring a rapid change in the multilateral trading system and benefit the developing countries with underdeveloped countries , " said Jörg Leichtfried as spokesman of the European Parliament at the Parliament Conference of the WTO in Kuta , Bali , on Thursday .
According to him some developing countries have undergone major changes after free trade access is opened .
" Indeed, free trade is not always automatic ( positive impact on a country's strong economy ) as the most important in the free trade principle of justice is to eliminate disparities and improve the welfare of the people , " said Leichtfried .
Therefore , he considers the agreement resulting from the Parliamentary Conference of the WTO held in Kuta on 2 and 5 December 2013 was very important as part of an effort to take advantage of the parliamentary political influence on the KTM WTO .
In that same opportunity , he proposed to the WTO to include human rights issues ( rights ) , environmental rights , and social rights after the Bali package agreed .
" The WTO can impose sanctions on countries that violate trade third right ," he said .
According to human rights and environmental sustainability and social rights of workers must be protected from the multilateral trading system .
But the proposal Leichtfried not get a response from the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO participants , including Indonesia . " We agreed only Package Bali first before talking about human rights and the environment , " said Nurhayati Ali Assegaf , the Indonesian delegation at the conference .
Meanwhile , Kazutoshi Chatani economists as the International Labour Organization ( ILO ) urged the WTO to distinguish the mechanism of money and commodity markets with the labor market .
" Trade and commodity money is very easy , especially now that the online era . , But not so with the labor market . Due to that we place is that it took the right policy , " he said when speaking in front of 39 members of parliament from 39 countries.
He pointed out that the textile industry is currently reduced competitiveness . " And to make a textile engineer can not overnight . If the state fails to address the textile workers , then surely wage rise , while declining competitiveness , " said Kazutoshi .
According to him , the WTO should be able to anticipate the impact of free trade on labor traffic to maintain flexibility in the economies of member countries ..
The European Parliament believes " Bali Package " which became a deal Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) will be able to overcome the gap between developing countries with underdeveloped countries .
" Bali package I think is very important because it will bring a rapid change in the multilateral trading system and benefit the developing countries with underdeveloped countries , " said Jörg Leichtfried as spokesman of the European Parliament at the Parliament Conference of the WTO in Kuta , Bali , on Thursday .
According to him some developing countries have undergone major changes after free trade access is opened .
" Indeed, free trade is not always automatic ( positive impact on a country's strong economy ) as the most important in the free trade principle of justice is to eliminate disparities and improve the welfare of the people , " said Leichtfried .
Therefore , he considers the agreement resulting from the Parliamentary Conference of the WTO held in Kuta on 2 and 5 December 2013 was very important as part of an effort to take advantage of the parliamentary political influence on the KTM WTO .
In that same opportunity , he proposed to the WTO to include human rights issues ( rights ) , environmental rights , and social rights after the Bali package agreed .
" The WTO can impose sanctions on countries that violate trade third right ," he said .
According to human rights and environmental sustainability and social rights of workers must be protected from the multilateral trading system .
But the proposal Leichtfried not get a response from the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO participants , including Indonesia . " We agreed only Package Bali first before talking about human rights and the environment , " said Nurhayati Ali Assegaf , the Indonesian delegation at the conference .
Meanwhile , Kazutoshi Chatani economists as the International Labour Organization ( ILO ) urged the WTO to distinguish the mechanism of money and commodity markets with the labor market .
" Trade and commodity money is very easy , especially now that the online era . , But not so with the labor market . Due to that we place is that it took the right policy , " he said when speaking in front of 39 members of parliament from 39 countries.
He pointed out that the textile industry is currently reduced competitiveness . " And to make a textile engineer can not overnight . If the state fails to address the textile workers , then surely wage rise , while declining competitiveness , " said Kazutoshi .
According to him , the WTO should be able to anticipate the impact of free trade on labor traffic to maintain flexibility in the economies of member countries .
Negotiations are going on at the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization ( WTO KTM ) 9th expected to reach an agreement so that the conference could produce a package of Bali .
" Almost all the delegates already assume that we 're very close to reaching a deal , too expensive if you have to fail , that's what we try to assure all members , " said Under Secretary of Commerce Krisnamurthi during a press conference in Nusa Dua , Bali , on Wednesday .
Bayu said the current negotiating position has been progressing more likely to desire to resolve the Bali Package for only stayed one more step to reach an agreement .
Currently , India's position is still persist and have not approved the interim solution associated with the implementation of food security stocks .
In terkai negotiations with the interim solution , developed countries have actually approved the proposal of developing countries to provide subsidies of more than 10 percent of national output , but also provide a period of time against such subsidies .
Given during the period of 4 years was not accepted by India who want a permanent solution of it.
" Just a little more , do not try to disassemble the package because it will lead to a broader problem . We must focus on the things that have not been resolved , " said Bayu .
According to Bayu , based on speeches read by the ministers of WTO member countries , he believes that other countries also want the results of the Ministerial Conference of the 9th .
"Everything indicates that it wants to have results of Bali . And I do not think there is not an option that the results will be taken by members of the WTO , " said Bayu .
Bayu said it has also been invited as a whole , including the Indian delegation to no longer speak to the level of ideology or policy alone, but instead should be to the conversation toward more real .
In the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization 9th , Indonesia expects Bali Package can be agreed upon , in the package containing the Trade Facilitation , Agriculture , and LDCs
Reject WTO , NGO India Indonesia Supports Struggle
Lobbied the Indian government struggles ease trade and agricultural issues for the development of less developed countries , the Ministerial Conference ( KTM ) World Trade Organization , the support of several non-governmental organizations . One of the support to the Indian team at the ninth conference in Nusa Dua , Bali , this is from the Indonesian People Alliance ( IPA ) .
" This talk about sovereignty , provide , and meet domestic food is a form of resistance to the liberalization of the WTO , " said a spokesman for the IPA , Ahmad , in Bali , Friday, December 6, 2013 . " Obviously , with this proving that nothing can be maintained . We demand that the WTO should be disbanded , " he said .
Irhash Ahmady of Indonesian Environmental Forum ( WALHI ) said , the concept offered by India is a trading concept to the people . It also guarantees the protection of the state against its people . " Indonesia should follow the steps India and become part of the developing countries face pressures northern countries , especially America . But this actually be a U.S. lobbyist to Indonesia to agree Package Bali , " he said .
As for HB Rudi Daman , People Steering Committee of the Global Camp / PGC , asked Indonesia to stop lobbying and negotiation Indonesian delegation to India . " No more negotiations in the WTO . Stop lobbying the Indonesian delegation to India and wake up with the spirit of solidarity among developing countries Dasa Sila Bandung , " he said .
The activists Indonesian People's Movement Against Neocolonialism - Imperialism ( Motion Fight ) and Social Movements for an Alternative Asia ( Smaa ) will take to the streets to reject the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization ( WTO KTM ) in Bali with the opening of the event, today is Tuesday ( 03/12/2013 ) .
Hundreds of activists who came from all over the world will take action around the Field Renon , Denpasar , starting at 9:00 pm - 14:00 pm . This protest will be about 1,000 farmers , workers , students , women , and young people from 30 countries . They will protest the rejection of the WTO and free trade regime .
Chairman of the Indonesian Farmers Union said Henry Saragih Bali package is a bad deal for developing countries , so it is apt to be rejected .
" We were forced to accept a binding agreement in the WTO trade facilitation , while the subsidy is not allowed for small farmers and hungry people . Peace clause in the WTO is an unacceptable proposal , " he said , Monday ( 02/12/2013 ) .
Said Henry , movement activists do not want ending up in the WTO negotiations , peace clause is valid for four years or 10 years . He asserted that the WTO does nothing for farmers in the long run free trade means death to farmers .
" True , farmers in India also would never accept such a deal , " says Singh of the Bharatiya Kisan Yudhvir Union ( BKU ) , India's largest farmers' union that has attended a few days in Bali .
Henry convincing demonstrations will take place orderly and peaceful . The activists have prepared a song , dance and Balinese cultural approach to peace , and to encourage solidarity and the common folk to reject the WTO conference in Bali .
Previously , in an event in GOR Yuwana Mandala , Tembau , Denpasar , Motion Fight with Smaa ( a social movement coordination Asia ) confirmed its rejection of the WTO summit because for 18 years the WTO does not do anything for farmers .
Pablo Solon , Executive Director of Focus on the Global South , said the WTO KTM will not guarantee food sovereignty . Through trade facilitation , will be more imports for developing countries , dropped the selling price of domestic products , and pushing small farmers out of the market , " he said .
Dewy flower of Women's Solidarity movement called for adding a variety of alternatives to free trade - like food sovereignty , food supports local farmers to local populations . " Alternative policies such as sovereignty panganlah needed to ending world hunger , poverty is also a problem . WTO it will enrich big companies and impoverish the people , especially women , " ketanya .
Meanwhile , Monday morning , a number of elements of the students in the National Students Front ( FMN ) , perform the action in front of the Office of the United States Consular Agent , Denpasar . Dozens of students carrying flags and banners of various attributes flyer refuses KTM WTO .
WTO blamed as the initial liberalization of world trade that would oppress the people . In addition , the WTO is an American trading schemes that exploit the natural , miserable laborers , peasants and other marginalized groups .
" The meeting of the WTO is a political scheme that American imperialism is only miserable people in the world as it should be rejected , " said PR FMN Revan float .
Hundreds of police barricaded the selakang barbed fence located at the entrance of the Office of the U.S. Consular Agent .
Director General of the WTO Roberto Azevedo explained if an agreement was achieved , Package Bali discussed in the Ministerial Conference ( KTM ) World Trade Organization ( WTO ) will be able to boost the world economy worth U.S. $ 1 trillion per year and help developing countries and poor countries less developed to be more advanced .
" Kesepekatan will be able to push developing countries into the global market , " he said on Tuesday ( 03/12/2012 ) .
Roberto added that it takes political will of the government of each country to support a WTO agreement in KTM this time . If it fails , it will have a negative impact on world trade . " We can not delay . We must finish the job if there is political will . No member of [ WTO ] are asked to do the impossible , " he said .
Related demonstrations KTM rejection WTO , Roberto assess what is expressed demonstrators , one of which is the policy of the WTO would be devastating to the lives of farmers , not fundamental . According to him , this policy would actually improve the welfare of farmers in developing countries and less developed . Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan , adding currently required education for the world community about the positive impact of the policy that will be achieved at the WTO KTM .
For instance , Adhemar Mineiro , Economic Advisor to the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas ( Tuca ) and the Brazilian Network for the Integration of Peoples ( REBRIP ) , assess KTM WTO liberalization compared only concerned with the development of less developed countries .
WTO conference in Bali So Last Opportunity ?
WTO conference in Bali begins . Representatives who are present will seek to overcome barriers to free trade . However , what if it fails ?
Conference of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) is the 9th starting on Tuesday ( 3/12/13 ) in Bali . Delegates from the 159 members of the WTO have a tough task at the ministerial level meeting . They should be able to save the results of the talks of the so-called " Doha Talks " .
From that meeting should arise impulses for economic development , which bring benefits to developing countries and industrialized countries . Experts suspect , free trade around the world will create more than 20 million new jobs , and 18 million of them will be in developing countries .
The process that began in 2001 in Qatar include opening markets around the world and the elimination of trade restrictions . Doha negotiations are not successful so far . The main reason is the interests and different interests between industrial countries and developing countries .
India is considered key
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In Bali, the representatives of the member states want to formulate and agree on a package of measures , which will move back to the process that began in the Doha negotiations . But whether it will be successful , so far not clear . Planned , the trade will be facilitated through the tax system simpler . Besides agricultural subsidies will be reduced , and the provision of assistance to countries the poorest .
In the last meeting , India becomes the obstacle , because it does not agree that government subsidies for food is limited to a certain period . If India now did not want to soften the stance , the agreement will not be reached . Because the U.S. is not expected to change attitudes again . But the longer the results discussed Doha negotiations , the less chance for successful WTO .
The U.S. has long taken its own steps , namely by signing bilateral and regional cooperation . China is also negotiating with the countries of Southeast Asia , and the EU may in the near future will also negotiate with the U.S. . So the WTO meeting in Bali seems to be split in two , between defending the interests of the farmers and workers in developing countries with peers in developed economies . Here is shown a rigid attitude Indonesia . ( From various sources )
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