Employees picketed Gresik's plants not only in Padang but in East Java and South Sulawesi.
Sutiin, a 29-year-old from East Java, has signed a contract testifying that she receives the minimum wage.
"She has the soul of Sukarno inside her body, " says a traditional-medicine dealer in Madiun, East Java.
Ruminah, from East Java, said she was let out for only one hour a day to mop the floor.
Already there have been at least three violent incidents in East Java sparked by higher prices for essential goods.
Today the chain comprises ten hospitals, from Jakarta to Central and East Java.
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This week, they went on the rampage in east Java, and tried to invade parliament while it was in session.
The reality is that Miss Inul, from east Java, is too popular, especially among the young, for the authorities to ban her.
It reveres the Islamic scholars, known by the Arabic term ulama or the Javanese term kiai, whose influence remains strong in east Java.
East Java is a stronghold of support for the Indonesian Democratic Party headed by Megawati Sukarnoputri, the daughter of the country's first leader.
When Wiranto took over the military in March 1998, Suparman was plucked from the remote Natuna archipelago to become East Java's regional military commander.
DSS, which was hand-rolled by thousands of employees in East Java.
Among them: ethnic clashes in West Java, a riot following an earthquake in central Sumatra, and an anti-pollution protest that led to riots in Pasaruan, East Java.
It was the province's largest enterprise, and its 1995 acquisition by East Java-based Gresik in a government-directed consolidation of state-owned cement plants was a traumatic experience for West Sumatra.
For many Indonesians, the recent events have echoes of the mass killings of the mid-1960s, in which 500, 000 people are thought to have died, many of them in east Java.
Siti worked for six months--often 18 hours a day, for employers who wouldn't allow her a weekly day off--but she wasn't able to send one cent back to Blitar, her home in East Java.
Finds from Java suggest early humans reached South-East Asia by 1.6 million years ago.
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