Bandung – In greeting International Women’s Day, on Monday March 8 scores of students from the People’s Struggle Front (FPR) demonstrated in front of the Gedung Sate building in Bandung, West Java.

The students gave speeches and unfurled banners calling on the government to provide guarantees of legal protection to migrant workers, women and to end the criminalisation of women activists.

The protesters said that the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Boediono not only discriminates against women, but has paid inadequate attention to the fate of migrant workers.

The demonstration, which was closely guarded by scores of riot police, proceeded peacefully. In closing the action, the protesters held a theatrical action depicting the oppression of migrant workers. (ANS)

[Translated by James Balowski.]