Workers demand special cars

SEMARANG: About 100 employees from a cement factory staged a protest here on Monday, demanding their company bus them to and from work.

The workers said PT Kino Sentra Industries' transportation allowance of Rp 250 (US$0.03 cents) a day was insufficient and should be abolished. The company should provide employees with special buses instead, they said.

In the protest, held in front of the Semarang's Manpower and Transmigration Office, the workers also called for the company to abolish its employment contract system, which they said was unfair. -- JP