Workers take to the streets in Jakarta over jobs and pay.

Good morning. This is the Marketplace Morning Report, and we're live from the BBC World Service.

I'm Leanna Byrne. So we're going to start in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.

Thousands of workers are rallying to demand higher wages and lower taxes.

It's a second major protest there this week. The BBC's

Moira Fogarty is following this one. Hi, Maura. Hi there. Moira, this all began over a housing

allowance for MPs. Why has that struck such a nerve? You know, it really comes down to the

cost of living and how that's just increased around the world

and in particular in Indonesia. And on Monday, they were upset because of a new proposal that

would give lawmakers in Indonesia a housing allowance that was roughly worth about 10 times

what the average salary is for a normal Indonesian working person. And that really got

kind of people's backs up saying, wait a minute, this is the smells of corruption. This is

completely luxurious and inappropriate at a time when the government is saying, we have to kind of

tighten our belts and have to reduce spending, government spending overall

because tough times are around us. And of course, that's referring to the fact that we've got

these geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China affecting the global economy. And more

importantly, the tariffs that President Trump has proposed. Has Indonesia's government responded?

Well, quite harshly on Monday, the police used both water cannon and tear gas to disperse

the protesters. Those protesters were mostly students.

The ones that we're seeing today were actually organized by the Labor Union in Indonesia.

And their specific concerns today were around raising the minimum wage by about

8.5% overall.

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