Jakarta – Dozens of policemen in Central Java were injured in two days of protests by villagers trying to attack a rubber plantation, the official Antara news agency said Thursday.

Two police trucks were set ablaze on Wednesday along with a police post and a telecommunication center at the Ciseru-Cipari plantation in Cilacap, about 270 kilometers southeast of the capital.

The protests were sparked by a dispute over land owned by the plantation but farmed by local villagers, Antara said.

Several dozens officers were hurt when the villagers attacked a group of riot policemen sent to the area following Tuesday attack.

About 2,000 workers of the plant – the biggest rubber processing plant in central Java – had to be evacuated because of the violence, the report said.

Elsewhere, at least one person was killed and 16 injured in a mob attack on a Christian foster-child and rehabilitation home in Jakarta, police said Thursday.

Hundreds of attackers stormed and looted the center in eastern Jakarta on Wednesday night and then burned it down, said Maj. Gen. Noegroho Djajoesman, chief of Jakarta Police.

A guard at the center was stabbed to death. The children escaped unhurt and were evacuated to Jakarta police headquarters. Djajoesman said six people have been held for questioning. The Christian-based Doulos Foundation serves 3,000 foster children nationwide, with more than 100 elderly mental patients and about 50 youths being treated for drug problems.