Well, it's been a different start to the week this week. Apparently, fuel prices are going to increase on April 1st. We knew this when we got to Makassar as we saw some small demonstrations that first week here. However, now that April 1st is fast approaching, the demonstrations are getting larger and IBM Security has advised us to stay at the hotel both Monday and Tuesday. Fortunately, we were all able to continue on with some portion of our projects since we all work remote from time to time.
The demonstration we saw on the first day here was just a group of scooters/motorcycles grouped together (maybe 100 or so of them) honking their horns, carrying flags and banners, and making noise. I do not know of any details of demonstrations in Makassar yesterday or today, but did take some pictures of the news (posted below). I believe there was a big on in Jakarta today which is what most of the pictures are. We are all hoping to go back to our respective offices tomorrow as we need to continue to make progress on our recommendations and projects.
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Great weekend #2 post and nice pictures!!! Bummer about being confined to the hotel for a couple days. This must be part of the CSC experience. When I was in India the same thing happened to me. There was a huge country-wide protest over a verdict concerning a religious area between the Muslim and Hindi and we were confined to our hotel for a couple days. Try to make the most of it!
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