Members of Indonesian trade unions protest against the government's proposed labour reforms in a controversial "jobs creation" bill in Bandung, West Java Province, Indonesia October 6, 2020, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Raisan Al Farisi/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. INDONESIA OUT.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police used water cannons and tear gas on Tuesday to disperse protesters rallying against a new jobs law in two cities on the island of Java, according to a police spokesman and media reports.
Earlier, thousands of workers and students had protested peacefully across the archipelago at the start of a three-day national strike against President Joko Widodo's "omnibus" Job Creation bill, which was passed into law on Monday.
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