Six Thousand Police Meet Fifteen Hundred Students in Central Jakarta as ‘Towards Indonesia Bankruptcy’ Protests Mark President Prabowo’s Worst Domestic Pressure... (opens in new tab)

Approximately fifteen hundred students from the University of Indonesia, IPB University, Pancasila University, Gunadarma and Jakarta State Polytechnic, organised under the 'Towards Indonesia Bankruptcy' coalition, marched toward the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout in central Jakarta on Friday against a thirty-two-percent fuel price jump and a rupiah at 18,000 to the dollar. President Prabowo Subianto's government deployed more than six thousand police and soldiers. The Jakarta protest, which sprea...