Protests over new labor laws broke out at the capital and in three cities in Indonesia as President Abdurrahman Wahid brought in a new economic team to improve his relations with the International Monetary Fund and to garner support before his impeachment later in August. Workers are protesting new labor laws that make it easier for employers to fire employees. The recent protests are among a series of labor disputes that were unleashed after the repressive dictator Suharto was forced from office in 1998.
See "Indonesians Protest Over Labor Laws", The New York Times, June 12, 2001