Prabu Prabo in Indonesia, China’s journey on protests, and Tiktok stop direct fodder | News protest

Indonesian President Prabu Sobanto canceled a trip to China, where the fatal protests of the air edges spread outside the capital, and Tiktok commented on the social media platform a vivid advantage of it, noting concerns about “increasing violence” in the country of Southeast Asia.

Brabu’s spokesman’s announcement came on Saturday, when the Indonesian authorities said that at least three people were killed in Blocked burning attack In a parliamentary building in Makasar, the capital of the southern province of Sulawizi, the previous day.

The protests indicate the first major test of the Brabu government almost an age. They started in Jakarta on Monday because of the salaries of legislators and worsened after a She hit the police vehicle and killed A motorcycle passenger.

“The president wants to continue monitoring (the situation in Indonesia) directly … and searching for the best solutions,” President of the President of the Paraceito Hadi said in a video.

“Therefore, the president apologizes to the Chinese government that he cannot attend the invitation.”

Brabu was scheduled to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit In Tianjin, China, in addition to the “Victory Day” show on September 3 to celebrate the eighty anniversary of the end of World War II.

The protests in Indonesia have sparked reports that all 580 lawmakers receive a monthly housing of 50 million rupees ($ 3,075) in addition to their salaries.

Critics argue that the new allowance is not only excessive, but also not sensitive to the time when most people are struggling with the high costs of living and taxes, as well as high unemployment.

The protests grew wider and more violent after the death of the 21 -year -old horseback driver, Aftan Kurniawan in Jakarta on Thursday. It seems that a video on social media, which seems to appear to be his death, shocked the nation and sparked a struggle against the security forces in the country.

Brabu, Which was the army general Under the former leader Muhammad SweahartoHe urged calm and offered condolences to the driver’s death.

But he also called on the leaders of the army and the police to act decisively to restore the regime.

Earlier on Saturday, the demonstrators caused fires in the regional parliament buildings in three provinces – west of Nusa Tingara, the city of Bikalongan in the center of Java and the city of Seripon in West Java – the local media reported.

Detik.com said that the demonstrators have looted parliamentary offices in Cirebon, and that the police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators in Pekalongan and West Nusa Tenggar.

More planned protests

Jessica Washington of the island, which was reported by Jakarta, said that “thousands of demonstrators are still in the streets” in the country’s capital amid widespread anger of “housing allowance for politicians, 10 times the minimum wage” in the city.

Washington said: “The government calls for calm, but the protests are expanding, with more grievances in more cities and more demonstrations planned for the coming days,” Washington said.

Local media also reported that a crowd has looted the Jakarta home to Ahmed Sahroni, a deputy of the Political Party in Nasdam, and took elements including home furniture.

Sahroni faced accusations of responding in a non -sensitive response to the people who claim parliament to resolve them in anger at the legislators’ allowances. Sahroni described these critics as “the stupidest people in the world.”

The protests also occurred on the island of Al -A vacation, where tear gas was used against the demonstrators.

The Short-Video Tiktok, owned by China’s Bytedance, said on Saturday that it had suspended the alive feature in Indonesia for a few days.

This week, Jakarta summoned representatives of social media platforms, including Meta Platforms Inc and Tiktok, and asked them to enhance moderate content because misleading information has spread online. The government says that such a misleading information has pushed protests against it.

“In light of the increasing violence in the protests in Indonesia, we take additional security measures to keep Tiktok safe and civil space,” Bentuns said in a statement.

“As part of this procedure, we voluntarily suspend the Tiktok Live feature for the next few days in Indonesia,” the statement added.

Indonesia has one of the largest fans in the world in Tiktok, with more than 100 million users.

In some videos of the protests published on the service on Saturday, users complained that they could not use the direct feature.

People used the famous video application to document the protests, including the police that launch tear gas and water cannon on the demonstrators.

Wria Edyeena, Deputy Director of Amnesty International, Indonesia, told Al Jazerara’s The interior story The government of Indonesia seems to be more interested in ensuring “full control of novels (and) full control of protests, rather than addressing the real concerns that people possess.”

Edinina said that the government “is restoring old playing books,” noting that it recently passed a law, “the government managed to quietly pushing the army and crawling to civil life, as the (army) has now become greater control, and a more, really, in the civil government.”