More than 3,000 workers of the state-owned telecommunications firm PT Telkom in its Central Java and Yogyakarta regional offices (Divre IV) struck on Monday 28 January 2002 against the plan to transfer the unit to another state-owned telecommunications firm, PT Indosat. Workers came to work but held only prayers during working hours, according to The Jakarta Post, while the World Socialist Web Site reported the action as a strike. The union chief Syahrul Akhyar said the strike would continue until the government formally scrapped the asset transfer plan, and a union spokesman told media that if the demand were rejected all workers in the division had decided to resign rather than work with Indosat.