File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/97-02-16.202, message 11


From: "Curtis Price" <cansv-AT-igc.apc.org>
Date:          Mon, 3 Feb 1997 10:22:44 +0000
Subject:       (Fwd) [78] INDONESIAN WORKERS JOIN RIOTS, BURN CARS IN BANDUNG


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Date:          Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:37:37 -0500
From:          NewsHound-AT-sjmercury.com (NewsHound)

Subject:       [78] INDONESIAN WORKERS JOIN RIOTS, BURN CARS IN BANDUNG

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Indonesian workers join riots, burn cars in Bandung
JAKARTA, Jan. 31 (Kyodo) -- More than 12,000 Indonesian workers staged a protest
 Friday, demanding a bonus for the Islamic Eid-al-Fitr holiday, with some of 
them burning cars and destroying a factory in the West Java provincial capital 
of Bandung, police said.

The violence is the latest incident in a wave of riotings by Muslims in the 
Bandung area in which Chinese temples and Christian churches have been attacked.

''The last report we received said two carse located about 30 kilometers east of
 Bandung, which is 125 km southeast of Jakarta.

All companies operating in Indonesia must give a bonus to their workers to 
celebrate the Islamic holiday or the Christmas holiday at least two weeks before
 the holidays.

Some companies, however, try not to pay the bonus or delay paying it, which 
usually spark labor strikes or riots.

Muslim mobs rampaged through the West Java town of Rengasdengklok on Thursday, 
destroying four Christian churches and two Chinese temples, more than 20 cars 
and about 70 other buildings.

The riots Thursday followed reports that a Chinese-Indonesian had complained 
about noise from a mosque.

AP-NY-01-31-97 0423EST


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