Posted on August 31, 2025
Violent clashes in Indonesia broke out between the riot police and demonstrators who demand the withdrawal of financial privileges for the legislators, while the two columns are said to be paid low wages.
Tensions increased throughout the country on Sunday after the video, which claims that a armored police vehicle during an armored police vehicle during a gathering last week led anger in many cities in Southeast Asia.
A local official said on Saturday that the fire began by the demonstrators in a council building in East Indonesia, killed at least three people.
The protests are the biggest and most violent for the presidency of Prab or Subianto, a major test for the previous year, less than a year after his rule.
The demonstrators gathered again in different regions of the vast archipelago of Indonesia during the weekend. Hundreds of students and taxi drivers “OJek” detained in front of the police headquarters in Bali, the most popular tourist point in Indonesia.
Hundreds of students in Surabaya also gathered outside the East Java Police headquarters, where the social media application Tiktok said that he had suspended a temporary live feature for “a few days” in Indonesia, where there are more than 100 million users.
In the capital, Jakarta, hundreds of hundreds on Friday were outside the weapon of the ELITE Mobile (BRIMOB) weapon, the Political Police Unit, which they blamed for the death of the Aftan Kurniawan motorcycle driver the day before.
President Prabu urged calm and ordered the investigation of the driver’s death, saying that the concerned officers would receive responsibility.
On Saturday, he canceled a planned trip to China next week in a military parade celebrating the end of World War II to monitor the situation at home.
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