Day 9 (3/26) On the Job in Makassar (Tranportation Agency)

Well, we got an alert from IBM Security about big demonstrations this week and we should stay at the hotel.  University Students plan to protest a 33% rise in the cost of gasoline.  Since we all work at Government locations, and two of the teams, including mine, are across the street from the Province (State) government offices where the demonstrations will take place, it was safer to work from the hotel.  We did see some protests last week, but only about 50 students, but they had blocked streets and were burning tires on the street in front of the Transportation Office.  So we stayed at the hotel and are working on our deliverable presentations and training sessions we plan to give later this week or early next week.

During our first week, we saw this protesting group passing by where we were having lunch.

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