Said Iqbal's exhortations proved exaggerated as he stood in front of the State Palace in Jakarta, on Labor Day, May 1, chanting for justice.

"150,000 workers will be in action in Jakarta, and another 3.5 million across Indonesia," the Indonesian Trade Union Confederation president had said at the launch of the One Million Houses Program in Ungaran, Central Java, just two days earlier on a Wednesday two weeks ago.

The number of workers marching fro