Unionized workers and the "Workers Party" in Indonesia have been protesting for seven consecutive days demanding an increase to the minimum wage to help with inflation and rising living costs. For a week, workers have marched 120 kilometers across the country to the State Palace in the capital, Jakarta.

The Indonesian Federation of Metalworkers' Union (FSPMI) is also calling for more jobs and improved healthcare. Indonesia, the fourth-most populous nation in the world, has been struggling with skyrocketing inflation since 2021.

Organizers called the "long march" a workers' struggle with the long-term goal of "occupying the State Palace, the Constitutional Court building, and the House of Representatives building together with millions of workers."

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