Workers lodge complaint

Workers lodge complaint

BANDUNG, West Java: Over 700 plantation workers sent five
representatives to the Nusantara Legal Aid Foundation to lodge a
complaint against their employers, who had paid their salaries
for more than a year.

The workers of Gemah Ripah, a tea plantation company owned by
the local government, said they have not been paid since April
1993. "But we kept working," said one worker who requested
anonymity.

He said workers have had to sell their belongings and run up
huge debts to buy food.(pet)