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)