DALTON TANONAKA, CNN ANCHOR: The cancellation of workers severance pay caused the second day of street violence in Indonesia. Workers in west Java's capital, Badung, threw wood and rocks at police, who returned with teargas and warning shots. For more on these protests, we're joined now by CNN's Atika Shubert in Jakarta. Atika, is the violence growing or subsiding?</s>ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: At this point, it does seems to be subsiding, at least in the major towns. Certainly in Badung, we saw a lot more violence yesterday, with at least 30 cars burned in the riots that happened after the protest began. However, this is the second day of clashes. And we saw, again, protesters throwing rocks at police. Police responding by firing teargas and warning shots to disperse the crowds. We saw, again, more protests in some of the smaller towns instead of the larger cities today. And in one East Java town, at least two people were injured by rubber bullets. Now these protests aren't directly related to the ongoing political crisis. As you mentioned, they center around this new labor law, that the protesters say will make it easier to fire workers. But they are a little short on specifics. In fact, the new regulations simply a allow business not to pay compensation fees if an employee voluntarily resigns, and the central government has said, that if regional governments would like, they can also reverse that ruling if they wish -- Dalton.</s>TANONAKA: OK, thank you, CNN's Atika Shubert in Jakarta. END TO ORDER VIDEOTAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF CNN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE THE SECURE ONLINE ORDER FROM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Cancellation of Workers Severance Pay Causes Second Day of Street Violence in Indonesia