Meanwhile, MECO's Conjuangco wants to see more safety measures provided. He asked Formosa Plastics to beef up its protection of Filipino workers. "We want a greater police presence," he said.
The police force in the Mailiao area, however, is not large enough to provide such protection, or to really deal with a large-scale riot. The nearby police station has only 200 people, with another 100 posted elsewhere in the county.
According to Formosa Plastics, at the end of August there were some 18,000 foreign workers at the site -- 8,534 Thais, 7,358 Filipinos and 1,733 Indonesians.
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