Comments by "Gorilla Disco" (@gorilladisco9108) on "Mass Protests Against China in Indonesia: Locals Torch Cars, Attack Chinese Staff" video.

  1.  @heyjo3417  No, it's earlier this month. The protest was about the transportation vehicles requirement. Before March 1, the worker contractors can use trucks (no roof, no seat, just plain trucks) to transport their workers to the factory sites. Since it is unsafe for the workers, IMIP demanded that worker contractors to use bus after March 1. However, the worker contractors decided to throw tantrum and stopped transporting their workers, hence the riot, which for some reasons, IMIP became the target. The channel however, conflated it with the protest a year ago about Chinese workers.
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  2. The thing is, the channel conflated the protest about Chinese workers, which happened a year ago, with the most recent protest, which had nothing to do with Chinese workers. The protest was about the transportation vehicles requirement. Before March 1, the worker contractors can use trucks (no roof, no seat, just plain trucks) to transport their workers to the factory sites. Since it is unsafe for the workers, IMIP demanded that worker contractors to use bus after March 1. However, the worker contractors decided to throw tantrum and stopped transporting their workers, hence the riot, which for some reasons, IMIP became the target. Kind of ironic, isn't it. If they demand safety, but then when the company establish safety rule, they are mad?
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  3. @ portland3974 Dude, I'm local. Ok? What I said is what our press reported about the protest. IMIP is not entirely Chinese. Indonesian government has their ownership share too (iirc, the law requires the government to own 51% of shares). The demand to use buses instead of trucks was most likely came from them. The problem is the worker contractors (the outsourcing firms), who want to have it cheap. They refused to buy (or rent) buses and instead stopped transporting their workers.
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  4. @ It's usually taken from the contract payment.
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  5. According to local news, the latest protest didn't have anything to do with Chinese workers. The protest was about the transportation vehicles requirement. Before March 1, the worker contractors can use trucks (no roof, no seat, just plain trucks) to transport their workers to the factory sites. Since it is unsafe for the workers, IMIP demanded that worker contractors to use bus after March 1. However, the worker contractors decided to throw tantrum and stopped transporting their workers, hence the riot, which for some reasons, IMIP became the target.
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