LAST Wednesday, the masses on the street had planned to go to Merdeka Palace. Instead, as if planned, they came from all corners to attack the capital city.

They came by bus, by trucks, motorcycles, from around Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, and even East Java. They only had one objective: to make sure plans to revise the Labor Law are scrapped.

The rally followed similar protests in other parts of the country. The principal road