TWO security personnel opened the main gate to the factory of PT Bentoel Prima at Jalan Suseno 2, Malang City, East Java, on Thursday afternoon last week. Not much later, hundreds of workers poured out of the factory area. The workers, most of whom were women, approached public transportation vehicles that were waiting for them. Others approached friends on motorbikes who were there to pick them up.

One pregnant woman approached a middle-aged m