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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Thousands of people rallied in several cities in Indonesia on Friday, pressuring its poll body to issue rules for regional elections amid outrage over an attempt by ...
The 2024 Indonesian local election law protests, also known as Emergency Alert for Indonesia (Indonesian: Peringatan Darurat Indonesia) or Indonesian Democratic Emergency (Indonesian: Indonesia Darurat Demokrasi), [28] were public and student-led demonstrations against the House of Representatives for drafting a bill on regional head elections (Pilkada) that contradicts the Constitutional ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Protesters marched in Indonesia’s capital on Friday demanding the election authority stop Prabowo Subianto from taking office as the next president and claiming ...
Students in Indonesia’s Aceh province rallied on Wednesday, demanding the government drive away Rohingya refugees who have been arriving by sea in growing numbers. The protest came as police ...
Similarly, on 26 December, Prabowo Subianto stated that the Indonesian government must pay attention to the interests of the people who still live under welfare rather than Rohingya refugees. [ 6 ] On 13 December, Retno Marsudi stated that the Rohingya refugees who landed in Aceh are the victims of human trafficking and people smuggling. [ 7 ]
The protests were the most prominent student movement in Indonesia since the 1998 riots that brought down the Suharto regime. [ 12 ] In several cities including Jakarta , Bandung and Padang , [ 13 ] protesters clashed with the Indonesian National Police (Polri), resulting in the riot police firing tear gas and water cannons.
The student protests also come as Indonesia enters a cooling-off period until voting day on Wednesday. Authorities were seen removing candidates' billboards and posters, and candidates are barred ...
The new penal code contains 624 articles, which the government claimed it had spent the past years gathering feedback from stakeholders, experts and the public following a nationwide protest against the code in 2019. The new code, which applies to Indonesians and foreigners alike, will not take immediate effect, but instead, three years after ...