Ahmad Fikri, Jakarta – Dozens of workers in West Java took part in a rally on Tuesday (20/4) outside Bandung City Hall as a preliminary act to the international worker's day that falls on May 1st.

Organiser of the protest Congress of Indonesia Unions Alliance, a non-governmental union said to use the May Day moment this year to reject plans to reduce severance pay in the amendment to the Law No.13 of 2003 on Employment.

The amendment would also faciliate outsourcing and temporary employment system that already reduced workers rights to a permanent and secure employment.

Workers also denounced the Special Economic Zone regulation in several regions which workers said would violate their rights.