Syaipul Bakhori, Jakarta – Hundreds of workers occupied a timber company in Jambi demanding their unpaid salaries and severance pay.

Around 300 ex-workers of PT Loka Rahayu Plywood demostrated near the company's facility supported by the provincial legislators to demand the company to pay severance fund an unpaid salaries of 555 ex-workers totalled at Rp 31,5 million.

The support boosted the protesters to occupy the plant and a sleeping quarter for workers, forcing staff guarding the company's facility to leave.

The company reportedly owned by a Taiwan national, a regional representatives joining the demo said the company should fulfill its responsibility to its ex-workers.