Jakarta – A number of journalists were threatened, and several others were attacked, while reporting on a Indonesian migrant workers' shelter in Condet, East Jakarta, on Tuesday.

"Bottles were thrown at us from outside," said Stephen, a reporter from television station Trans 7, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

The incident took place when the journalists arrived to cover an unscheduled inspection of the shelter by the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry. The shelter is managed by PT Dwi Insan Setia.

Stefanus said one of his colleagues, a cameraperson from SCTV television station, was asked to hand over his footage while he was smoking outside the shelter. He was told that he would be killed if he did not, Stefanus said, adding that his colleague had avoided trouble by returning to the shelter.

Stephanus said he saw about 120 migrant workers at the shelter, and that some of them became distressed when ministry officials inspected the shelter from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m.

The men who had threatened the reporters were nowhere to be seen by the time the visit wrapped up, Stephanus said. No one was physically assaulted, he added.