The riot stemming from the foreign worker strike at the JCY HDD Technology Sdn Bhd manufacturing plant in Kulaijaya, Johor saw more arrests today, with the total number of foreign workers detained in connection to the burning of a factory building on Tuesday night now up to 49.
Johor state police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said the workers, 47 Nepalese and two Bangladeshis, were arrested for rioting, and that the PDRM would continue to identify, search, and arrest those involved in the incident on Turesday.
“We will not hesitate to pick up any other foreign workers who cause public disorder and damage to any properties here,” he said when met by reporters after meeting with the company’s management today, as reported by The Star Online‘s Xee Xiang Yun.
As of yesterday, 44 workers had been arrested.
Earlier on Tuesday, the striking workers, mostly Nepalese nationals, had gathered outside the company’s offices, throwing rocks and burning down a car inside the compound, prompting Federal Reserve Unit (FRU) and Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) officers to swoop in to contain the situation.
The protesting mob also damaged three other blocks owned by the company.
At around 8pm on Tueday night, the workers torched the electronics manufacturing plant whose management they accused of mistreating them.
Last Thursday, more than 1,000 foreign workers also staged a mass protest at another JCY HDD plant at Johor Bahru’s Tebrau IV Inidsutrial Area, following the death of a Nepalese worker.
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