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The offices of state-owned power company PLN in Ternate, Maluku province, has once again become the target of angry people. The office was the target of stones thrown by angry people because power outages have hit the area for quite some time now. A number of windows of the building located along Jalan A. Yani has been scattered.
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Since early this morning, the airport of Sentani, near Jayapura in the easternmost province of Papua, has been occupied by people from the Yobe tribe. They demand a proper settlement for the estate that has been taken from them. Three planes of different airliners were not able to land on the airport and were diverted to the airport of Biak.
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One demonstration causes irritation, two demonstrations cause a traffic jam, three demonstrations is still quite normal in Jakarta. Four is okay as well, but the one who gave a permit for all thirteen demonstrations held today alone should be publicly humiliated by driving him through Jalan Thamrin at lunchtime a few times. Too stupid for words, all those demonstrations on just ONE single day in one of the most congested cities on this planet.
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Several hundred villagers have blocked a main road leading to the nickel mine operated by PT International Nickel Indonesia (PT Inco) on the island of Sulawesi. The company says that operations at the mine continue at normal level despite the protests.
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Around 120 truck drivers that normally transport coal in the city of Bengkulu have gone on strike. They also parked their trucks in front of the house of the mayor of Bengkulu. The protesters demand to have a meeting with the mayor. Until then they will not transport coal from the Pulai Baai mooring place anymore. Local residents have stopped trucks from using main roads in the city because they are blamed for the bad roads.
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Acquisition of land needed for the construction of the Semarang - Solo toll road in the village of Sarono in the Kalirejo subdistrict in Central Java, has lead to protests of local residents. Six of them refuse to agree to a payment scheme. One of the residents, Benny, told that he would not agree with a payment of just 500.000 Rupiah (36 euro) per square meter, because that was too little.
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Every single day - maybe excluded of some religious holidays - is demonstration day in Jakarta. The city will never be free of mid-afternoon demonstrations on high-profile locations because of all those demonstrations in one day. But the problem is, that most of those demonstrations consist of a group of less than 50 people, often paid to join their little demonstration to make it look big and have their pictures taken for a local newspaper.
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Some 50 students united in the Pancasila Student Front West Java (Front Mahasiswa Pancasila Jawa Barat) organized a demonstration in front of the German cultural Goethe Institute in Jalan. R.E. Martadinata in Bandung earlier today. They were forced to hold their demonstration there, because Bandung does not have a representative office or embassy which could be the gathering place for their protests against Israel.
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At least 70 people have been arrested or imprisoned for peaceful pro-independence activities in the province of Maluku, Indonesia over the last two years, Amnesty International revealed today. The Indonesian government should immediately and unconditionally release all those detained for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression, belief and association.
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The police have detained two activists from the Unified People Coalition (KRB) for allegedly burning flyers with pictures of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla at the State Palace yesterday.
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As much as 300 people, gathered in the National People's Action Committee of West Papua (Komite Aksi Nasional Rakyat Papua Barat or just KANRPB) held a demonstration at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Jakarta yesterday. They demanded independence for West Papua during their demonstration. Earlier they also held an action at the State Palace a few kilometers to the north.
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To prevent any actions by people who want to see FPI disbanded, the regional branch of FPI in Pekanbaru, Riau, has brought itself to readiness to fight possible crowds demanding the disbandment of FPI. The head of the regional branch there, Haris Kampai, said that they would fight anyone near their office demanding the disbandment of FPI. "The Riau branch of FPI has never had any anarchist behavior, it's Ahmadiyah that should be disbanded, not FPI", said Haris, pointing at a sect that is said to deviate from Islam.
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Police in Indonesia has arrested several hundred protesters in the Indonesian capital Saturday after some burnt tires and threw Molotov cocktails during a rally over fuel price rises, police said. The government hiked the cost of fuel by nearly 30 percent from Saturday in response to soaring global oil prices, and a ballooning subsidy bill, leaving hard-pressed households facing even more economic woes.
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Thousands of demonstrators have protested against the planned fuel price hikes this afternoon. Most of the demonstrators had gathered in front of the Presidential Merdeka palace in Jakarta. Another favorite place for the demonstrators was in front of the main government building in Jakarta. The demonstrators demanded that the government agreed with a list of seven demands they made, one of them was not raising the fuel prices. They also demanded lower food prices and free health care and education.
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Angry students increase their protests across Indonesia, showing the risks for the government if it will cut subsidies on fuel amid soaring world oil prices. The protests are small and peaceful, but the government is keeping a close watch. Drastic price hikes in 1998 eventually caused the fall of former president Suharto. There were demonstrations in at least ten cities.
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ndonesia's police have been told to be be on alert for any signs of unrest over fuel prices ahead of an expected price hike. The government is believed to be considering a fuel price rise of between 20 and 30 percent, a move that is sure to fan inflation at a time of already high food prices.
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Hundreds of students who name themselves the Morning Star Youth Movement Anti-colonial Indonesia have raised the Morning Star flag yesterday. Hoisting the flag took place in a ceremony held in the deep forests near Jayapura. The ceremony was held to remember the day that the independence of Papua Barat was proclaimed. Outside a number of youth, the ceremony was attended by a number of members of the National Freedom Army of the Papua Independence Organisation TPN OPM.
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Police in Indonesia have arrested 31 people after dancers staged a separatist protest in front of the president in Ambon last week. Maluku police spokesman Djoko Susilo said that 28 protesters and three others were arrested after the group danced in front of president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and unfurled a separatist flag. "We will resolve this case down to its very roots," said Susilo as criticism of security forces for failing to prevent the incident mounted.
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Thousands of people demonstrated in the province of central Java today to protest the government plan to build a nuclear power plant in the city of Kudus. Local residents as well as environment activists hit the streets and public places in Kudus, 400 kilometers east of Jakarta. They protest the construction of the power plant which is to be started in 2016.
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Police in Jakarta are preparing 200.000 men for public security in the capital tomorrow, 1 May, when tens of thousands of workers are expected to hold rallies to mark Labor Day. The personnel deployed would be from several departments of the police, including Densus-88, the anti-terror unit, according to senior police spokesman Ketut Untung Yoga Ana.
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A number of victims from the mud flow in East Java held another demonstration in front of the presidential palace on Monday in their effort to pressure the government to meet their demands for direct compensation for property they have lost in the disaster. The residents arrived at around nine in the morning and left five hours later after their made clear their demands for full payment to settle the issues.
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Anti-American protests intensified on Saturday ahead of President George W. Bush's coming visit to the world's most populous Muslim country. "Bush is a terrorist!'' chanted 300 Islamic hard-liners, students and ordinary citizens who gathered outside the U.S. embassy in the capital, Jakarta, the target of near-daily protests all month. "He is guilty of killing Muslims!'' Bush was scheduled to visit Indonesia briefly on Monday.
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Hundreds of protesters on Friday burned U.S. flags and chanted "You're not welcome here" ahead of a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush to predominantly Muslim Indonesia. Traffic jammed as protesters marched through the streets of Bogor, where Bush will meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday for wide-ranging talks covering terrorism, the Middle East peace process, poverty alleviation and education.
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Over 100 Indonesian Muslims staged a rally outside the Vatican embassy in Jakarta on Monday, demanding the Pope to apology for its controversial statement on Muslims.
Wearing white shirts or white t-shirts and holding white flags with red rose in its center, the demonstrators from the Islamic Defender Front (FPI), the Soldier of Islamic Defender and the Mujaheddin of Islamic Defender, claimed that their move was a peaceful act.
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Indonesian police will allow activists opposed to the policies of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to meet in Batam, 40 minutes by ferry from Singapore where the lenders are holding their annual meetings. Activists were previously denied permission to hold the meeting on the island because it could hurt the political, security and investment environment in Indonesia, Anggaria Lopies, a spokesman from the Riau provincial police, said in a telephone interview today.
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A move to protest International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank policies - right at Singapore's doorstep - has been officially banned by the Batam police. Unable to stage outdoor demonstrations in Singapore during the IMF-World Bank meet next week, about 1,000 delegates from non-governmental organisations around the world had decided to hold their protest at the nearby Indonesian island instead.
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Muslims in Asia held angry but peaceful protests on Friday against Israel's bombardment of Lebanon, denouncing the Jewish state and demanding the United Nations take action to halt the violence. Demonstrators in Malaysia burned Israeli flags. In Indonesia they accused Israel of atrocities against civilians. In Bangladesh marchers shouted "Down with Israel.''
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Thousands of Muslim protesters have flooded the main streets of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, condemning continuing Israeli attacks on the Palestinian territories and Lebanon that have killed scores of civilians. The Government of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has called on Israel to stop the strikes and urged the disputing parties to get back to the negotiating table.
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Hardline Muslim groups in Indonesia vowed to take to the streets to protest the second edition of the Indonesian Playboy magazine, local media reports said Friday. The June edition hit news stands this week after protests over the premier edition two months ago led editors of the Indonesian version of the US magazine to postpone publication of the second edition.
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Tens of thousands of conservative Muslims rallied in the Indonesian capital Sunday in support of a proposed anti-pornography bill that critics say would chip away at the country's secular traditions. The protesters, who arrived in buses organized by mosques and conservative Islamic groups, urged parliament to immediately pass the bill, which in its current form would ban kissing in public - as well as erotic poetry, dancing, drawing, writing, photos and film.
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East Java Police chief Brig. Gen. Herman Suryadi has issued a shoot-on-sight order for rioters following the massive wave of vandalism by disgruntled supporters of a candidate in the Tuban regental elections. Tuban Police intensified their hunt for the masterminds of the violence, Herman said, with a curfew imposed for an indefinite period of time in the area.
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Security forces were on top alert throughout Indonesia on Monday ahead of May Day rallies that could see tens of thousands take to the streets in Jakarta alone, police said.
The demonstrations are taking place against a backdrop of government plans to revise a 2003 labour law, a move that has prompted a rising tide of worker opposition.
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Chief patron of the National Awakening Party (PKB), Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid was scheduled to leave for Tuban district, East Java, on Sunday following the mass riots broke out in the district after the direct election of the district head on Thursday. "Yes, he will leave for Surabaya today and proceed to Sidoarjo district for having dialogue with labors in the Sidoarjo`s sport-hall, after that he will visit Jombang district and will end his trip in Tuban district," chairman of East Java chapter of PKB, Imam Nahrawi said here on Sunday.
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"As Indonesian Workers' Unions continue to defy government appeals to all workers not to go on a mass strike on World Labor Day (May 1st), Jakarta Police Chief Inspector General Firman Gani plans to deploy some 12,000 police personnel across the capital in anticipation of widespread rallies on 1 May. The Jakarta Military Command is also scheduled to have approximately 5,000 soldiers standing on alert and the Jakarta Public Order Agency will have 7,000 public order officers on stand-by as well, a day before the planned strike action commences.
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About 10,000 Indonesian workers held a protest rally in Jakarta in a bid to force the government to scrap a proposed labor law, bringing traffic in the nation's capital to a standstill. The protest paralyzed a key road leading to the office of Vice President Jusuf Kalla, causing traffic jams near buildings housing the central bank and companies including PT Garuda Indonesia, the nation's biggest airline.
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Thousands of Muslims rallied in front of the tightly guarded U.S. Embassy in Indonesia yesterday, demanding American troops leave Iraq and Afghanistan and calling U.S. President George W. Bush a terrorist. The protesters, many of whom were from the hardline group Hizbut Tharir, were kept well away from the mission, which is ringed by two concrete walls and barbed wire. Some 2,000 police stood watch and two water cannons stood by, but the rally ended peacefully.
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Twenty-seven Muslim activists, who were released by police in Bandung on Saturday after being detained for "disturbing" foreign nationals during a protest, vowed to continue with their actions. The activists said they would continue distributing questionnaires to foreign nationals to gauge their opinions of the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
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About 400 hardline Muslim protestors attacked the US Embassy in Jakarta with rocks, tomatoes and eggs, claiming that the United States was on a mission to destroy Islam.
In speeches, members of the Islamic Defenders Front, a Muslim vigilante group, said that US President George W. Bush had supported the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers.
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Denmark has temporarily withdrawn its ambassadors from Syria, Iran and Indonesia because their safety was at risk in the wake of a Danish newspaper's publication of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Denmark's embassy buildings in all three countries had been targeted by angry mobs protesting the publication of the caricatures in September. European and American newspapers subsequently reprinted the drawings.
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Denmark advised its citizens to leave Indonesia on Tuesday as anger over the drawings of the Prophet Muhammad in Western newspapers spread across the world's most populous Muslim nation, the ambassador said. "The Foreign Ministry recommends that Danes already in Indonesia leave and that those interested in coming postpone their plans," said Geert Aagaard Anderson, Denmark's ambassador to Indonesia, who said there was little security in place to protect his citizens.
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Police fired warning shots outside the US consulate here to disperse protesters who earlier smashed windows at the Danish consulate, an Agence France-Presse photographer said. About 200 members of the hardline Front of the Defenders of Islam (FPI) protested cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed at the building that houses the Danish consulate before the group moved to the US mission.
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Thousands of Muslim protesters are scheduled to march on the Danish Embassy in Indonesia to protest against drawings of the prophet Mohammed that have ignited Islamic anger around the world. "We will condemn the publications of the cartoons," said Dedi Supriyadi, from the Justice and Prosperity Party, the Islamist political party organising the protest.
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The simmering controversy over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a number of European media as well as a local newspaper's website ignited protests here Friday. In Jakarta, hundreds of members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and the Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI) held a protest against Rakyat Merdeka online on Friday after the website ran the cartoons -- showing the image of the Prophet, which is forbidden in Islam -- earlier this week.
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Asian Muslims angered by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed called new protests after prayers on Friday as dozens of protesters stormed a block housing the Danish embassy in the Indonesian capital. Afghanistan's president and the governments of Pakistan and Indonesia have all condemned the publication of the drawings in Denmark and then in other European newspapers.
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Indonesia more than doubled the average cost of fuel on Saturday to try to stave off an economic crisis despite protests by thousands of people, some of whom burned tires and threw rocks at police. Security forces responded to Friday's demonstrations by firing tear gas at more than 100 rioting students, then chasing them down and hitting some with sticks. Transportation strikes in at least seven cities left thousands stranded, media reports said.
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Indonesian police fired tear gas at up to 200 students outside a Jakarta university who were throwing rocks and blocking traffic on Friday in a last-ditch protest at impending fuel price hikes, local radio said.
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The Jakarta Police have changed the security concentration towards places assumed to be used as protest sites by students and other members of the general public. “Yesterday, we estimated that there were 14 points. However, there were some changes that we will only concentrate on three locations. These are the State Palace, the Vice Presidential Palace and the Hotel Indonesia Round,” said Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Firman Gani in Jakarta on Thursday (29/09).
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Thousands of people hit the streets and public transport drivers went on strike to protest the government's planned fuel price increase, Agence France-Presse reported.
The government is set to hike fuel prices this weekend. Organisers have vowed to mobilise some 14,000 protesters to demonstrate at the presidential palace but by noon only about 700 had gathered there.
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While protests are mounting ahead of the government's announcement of the new fuel prices, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned the public against turning violent.
"Go ahead if you want to express yourselves by protesting, but don't burn or destroy things. (Peaceful expression) is what democracy is all about," Susilo said during a meeting with university rectors at the State Palace on Wednesday.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on all parties in the country to refrain from blaming each other for the current fuel oil crisis. Petrol stations across Indonesia are reporting fuel shortages, as Indonesians try to stock up on petrol and diesel ahead of a much feared price hike on October 1.
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More than two thousand people have taken to the streets of the Indonesian capital Jakarta to protest over the government's plan to raise fuel prices. More than 2,000 members of the hardline Islamic Hizbut Tahrir movement gathered in central Jakarta. Speakers said the government could take other steps to pay for the subsidies without raising oil prices which would make the poor suffer more.
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Indonesia is preparing for protests over government plans to cut subsidies that keep the price of gasoline products affordable for the country's millions of poor people, the security minister said Wednesday. The country plans to hike prices by as much as 50 per cent as early as next month to ease the strain of soaring global crude oil costs on its budget.
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Hundreds of Indonesian bus drivers, vendors and factory workers staged a noisy rally in Jakarta on Sunday to protest against the government's plan to increase fuel prices.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono unveiled a plan on Wednesday to raise fuel prices in order to support the weakening rupiah which plunged to a four-year low last week as oil prices surged.
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A fuel hike that will hit Indonesia's poor hard came into effect Tuesday, but the expected large-scale demonstrations failed to materialize as the government promised to beef-up anti-poverty assistance programs. The government announced late Monday it was cutting fuel subsidies, amounting to an average 29 percent increase in prices from gasoline to diesel oil. Fuel prices have been a sensitive topic since riots over a price hike in 1998 hastened the collapse of former President Suharto's dictatorship.
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Hundreds of Indonesian students have held rallies around the country to protest against rising fuel prices. The increases, of up to 30%, were announced by officials on Monday. The government said it was forced to act after spending more than $6bn in fuel subsidies last year, because of soaring world oil prices. The price of fuel is a sensitive political issue in Indonesia. Fuel protests even contributed to the downfall of former President Suharto.
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More small demonstrations against the U.S. President George W. Bush's visit occurred in several cities in the world's most populous Muslim nation, but all the protests were peaceful. Around 70 Muslim students in the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta rallied to protest Bush's visit.
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Muslim students burned a U.S. flag and called President George W. Bush a terrorist during demonstrations Tuesday, one day ahead of his brief visit to Indonesia, local media reported. About 50 students protested in the Central Java city of Semarang while a separate group gathered at Jember in East Java and burnt the Stars and Stripes, Elshinta radio reported.
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Indonesian police say they will deploy 11,000 officers across Jakarta to safeguard next month's annual meeting of the People's Consultative Assembly, the top constitutional body. On Monday a bomb shattered windows and a door at the parliament building complex, which also houses the offices of the assembly, but caused no injuries.
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The trial of the first suspect in the October 12 Bali bombings has begun with around 3,000 security personnel deployed in and around the courthouse on the Indonesian resort island.
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Chanting "America imperialist, number one terrorist!" tens of thousands of protesters in Indonesia marched on the U.S. Embassy Sunday in what appeared to be this nation's largest anti-war demonstration to date. Estimates of the crowd's size ranged from 100,000 to 300,000. Many of the protesters were dressed in traditional Muslim attire and represented the country's largest Islamic groups.
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The State Department is warning Americans in Indonesia of possible terror attacks.
Hundreds of anti-war protesters took to the streets of Jakarta today, burning American flags in front of the U-S Embassy. Most Western countries -- including the U-S -- have warned their citizens not to travel to Indonesia after last year's bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed more than 200 people.
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Demonstrators have hit the streets in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, to protest against US-led attacks on Iraq as clerics savaged President George W Bush in mosque sermons. A senior Western diplomat said the possibility of demonstrations getting out of control worried him the least among several key security concerns in Indonesia because of "the commitment of the Government to make sure that law and order are going to be upheld".
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In the biggest anti-American protest yet in the world’s most populous Muslim country, tens of thousands of Indonesians on Sunday staged a peaceful protest against a possible US attack on Iraq. Local media estimated the size of the crowd at up to 100,000.
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About 1,000 Indonesian students staged a rowdy protest outside the home of President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Thursday calling for her to step down. Hundreds of police formed a cordon to stop the protesters approaching Megawati's official residence in central Jakarta.
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Indonesia's government cut selected fuel and electricity prices after recent hikes sparked popular protests last week, but tried to appease its international creditors by saying the move won't have any effect on the 2003 budget.
Indonesia pushed fuel and electricity prices higher this month as part of a policy to slash the budget deficit under an International Monetary Fund approved reform program.
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When she became president 18 months ago, Megawati Sukarnoputri was lauded as a champion of the poor, a mother figure who promised to look after the "orang kecil" - the downtrodden little guy. But mention her name in the narrow alleys of Indonesia's hideously overcrowded slums and impoverished rural villages nowadays and you'll hear cries of "sellout" and "traitor."
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The Indonesian government rolled back a sharp increase in telephone calling rates today after tens of thousands of workers and students across the country joined in protests against the increase, which took effect Jan. 1. "The minister of telecommunications has agreed that there would not be any increase in telephone rates in 2003," said the speaker of the lower house of Indonesia's Parliament, Akbar Tandjung, who met with government ministers and other lawmakers late Wednesday night.
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Opposition to recent price hikes in Indonesia mounted Wednesday as groups urged the Supreme Court to block the move and protesters attacked offices of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's party. Protests have continued almost daily across the country since early January in the most widespread public challenge to Megawati's 18-month administration.
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Indonesian students seized five petrol trucks in the capital on Wednesday as thousands of protesters rallied in at least 10 cities across the country demanding a rollback of recent utility price hikes. Around 2,000 students gathered outside the presidential palace in Jakarta calling for President Megawati Sukarnoputri to stand down, some burning tyres and mock coffins and shouting "Democracy is Dead".
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As the protests against price hikes entered their fifth day yesterday, the Indonesian government moved to give tax relief to businessmen and distribute subsidised rice to the poor. Nearly 10,000 took to the streets in eastern Indonesia, in the largest demonstration yet against rising fuel and utility prices. Business people were also intent on being heard.
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Indonesian protest leaders have warned the Government to roll back sharp price rises for fuel and power or face even larger demonstrations and more radical action, including a blockade of a major port. Protesters have hit city streets across Indonesia throughout the week. Violent protests over prices in 1998 helped topple strongman Suharto, who stepped down as president with his nation in chaos at the height of the Asian financial crisis.
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 Protests against price increases of up to 22 percent for basic services turned violent Thursday, with police shooting two demonstrators in one city and using batons against rock throwers in the capital. For the fourth day, thousands of students, workers and activists demonstrated in at least 15 cities against price increases for fuel, telephone and electricity. They chanted anti-government slogans, burned tires, hijacked an empty fuel truck and demanded the removal of the current government.
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Workers and students in Indonesia have clashed with police during protests over recent fuel and electricity price increases. The government price hikes, made in line with International Monetary Fund recommendations, have provoked thousands to strike and march throughout the troubled South-East Asian nation.
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Indonesians have held a third day of protests around the country against rises in fuel and utility charges, as students, labour and political groups called for bigger protests on Thursday. Hundreds of students in Palu, Central Sulawesi province, burnt portraits of President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Vice President Hamzah Haz, the Detikcom online news service reported.
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Indonesian shares are lower early Wednesday as blue chips fall further on concerns that protests against recent price and tariff hikes will escalate, dealers said. At 0245 GMT, the Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite index was down 0.5%, or 2.067 points, at 392.452. Decliners lead gainers 13 to four, with 12 stocks unchanged. Volume is light at 11 million shares valued at 25 billion rupiah (€ 1=IDR 9,291).
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Hundreds of Indonesians took to the streets here Monday to protest the government's decision to raise electricity and telephone rates and fuel prices, while elsewhere in the country higher fuel costs were likely to cause transport disruptions. More than 150 students from the Committee Against Price Rises and from the militant Democratic People's Party picketed the Merdeka Palace to protest the hikes.
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Police shot blanks into the air and fired water cannons and tear gas Wednesday into crowds of demonstrators protesting the likely re-election of Jakarta's governor, a former army general accused of human rights abuses. Incumbent Gov. Sutiyoso, whose five-year term has been marred by allegations of corruption and incompetence, is the favorite to win a ballot of city councilors, having reportedly secured the votes of the two largest factions in the local government.
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Scores of Indonesian students laid siege to parliament on Tuesday, breaking through the gates before running into police barriers, in a protest against moves by some legislators to block key constitutional changes. The students were among 5,000 protesting at moves by smaller factions in the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) to halt the revisions, including setting a mechanism for direct election of the president and vice president from 2004. Indonesian presidents are currently appointed by the MPR, the nation's top legislature.
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Water cannons dispersed thousands of protesters who stormed the gates of Indonesia's parliament and demanded sweeping constitutional reforms, including the right of voters to elect the president directly and an end to the military's official role in politics. It was the third straight day of demonstrations in front of the heavily guarded parliament where the country's supreme legislature is holding its annual two-week meeting. About 7,000 people, mostly students, demanded the 700-member body introduce direct presidential elections and eliminate a block of 38 seats reserved for representatives of the security forces.
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Dozens of students from several universities in Greater Jakarta sent a bag of cow's feces to members of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) staying at Hotel Mulia Senayan in Central Jakarta to protest the legislators' poor performance during the Annual Session. "We have been disappointed to see that ever since the first day of the session, there have been clandestine attempts (from some of MPR's members) to scrap the amendments of the Constitution," said Rico Marbun, chairman of the University of Indonesia's Student Executive Body (BEM).
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Several thousand Indonesians rallied on Sunday to protest against Israel's military operations in Palestinian areas, the latest demonstration in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Separately, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said he had told a visiting senior U.S. official that Indonesia wanted the United States to press Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories.
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The mass groups intending to stage major demonstrations in Jakarta on Monday were urged by the government to hold demonstrations peacefully. "The security forces will not hesitate to take firm action against those failing to abide by the law," Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said.
Susilo made a plea on Sunday late-night after chairing a meeting to discuss the situation in the capital, the Antara News Agency reported Monday.
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Hundreds of residents of Gunaksa village, Dawan district, in Klungkung regency, some 40 kilometers east of here, blocked the provincial southern primary highway early on Friday in an apparent protest over a previous dispute.In the previous incident, some Gunaksa residents were threatened by four armed hoodlums from the neighboring village of Sampalan.
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Protests against the fuel price hike again turned violent here as university students taking part in two separate demonstrations clashed with police. Students from the Indonesian Christian University (UKI) and Jayabaya University, both in East Jakarta, became involved in running battles with the police in front of their respective universities, resulting in at least five people being injured.
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Thousands of Indonesian workers held massive rallies in several cities on Wednesday to demand the scrapping of a ministerial labor decree cutting long-service payments.
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Police seized hundreds of weapons and arrested 22 people as thousands of President Abdurrahman Wahid supporters from East Java arrived here on Tuesday. Jakarta Police Detective Chief Sr. Comr. Adang Rochana said the people were arrested at city bus terminals and railway stations for possessing illegal weapons. Police questioned an additional 100 people but later released them.
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Thousands of supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid threatened on Tuesday to storm the House of Representatives (DPR) building should the House decide, at its plenary session on Wednesday, to call for a special session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) to impeach the President.
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Indonesian police estimate up to 20,000 protesters gathered outside the Presidential Palace in Jakarta in the latest protest calling for President Abdurrahman Wahid to resign. With fists in the air, chanting "Gus Dur Mundur", Gus Dur resign, students from at least a dozen universities demanded the president step aside so that under the constitution Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri can take his place.
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Around 100,000 students coming from all over the country continued their rally outside the presidential palace on Monday in Jakarta, the biggest protest against President Abdurrahman Wahid since he took power 16 months ago. The rally so far run peacefully despite early minor and brief clash between the students with around 500 supporters of President Wahid who also staged a demonstration at the same venue.
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Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri and ministers who just finished a cabinet meeting led by the embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid in presidential residence complex apparently trapped at midday on Monday as they could not leave the compound surrounded by thousands of anti-Wahid students. "We are still thinking ways how to take Megawati and ministers out of this presidential palace complex," a security guard said.
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Around one hundred thousand supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) plan to stage a grand meeting and demonstration themed " Aspirations of the Jember People" at the town square in Jember, East Java, today. The ulemas and religion`s figures will pray for the country currently suffering unabated political disturbance caused by the actions of the political elite to prioritize their respective group`s interests. Deputy chairman of the organizing team, Abdul Muis, said this meeting will provide `concrete evidence` that Jember people are consistent in supporting Abdurrahman Wahid as Indonesia`s President until 2004. He said that Wahid is the constitutionally chosen President. As such, if unconstitutionally ousted from power in the middle of his term, the action will destroy the basic system of the country.
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Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid or Gus Dur flew into his political heartland of East Java on Friday to try to calm fanatical supporters who said they plan to continue their increasingly violent protests. The Muslim cleric made no comment on arrival in the provincial capital Surabaya, and headed straight for Pasuruan, about 735 km (480 miles) east of Jakarta and stronghold of a huge Islamic organisation founded by his grandfather.
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Thousands of people, mostly students, took to the streets in at least four cities on Friday, with divided calls. Thousands of supporters and critics of President Abdurrahman Wahid staged rallies close to the presidential palace, with anti-Abdurrahman demonstrators outnumbering those who supported him.
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Disgruntled supporters of the incumbent President Abdurrahman Wahid continued venting their anger in East Java on Monday by vandalizing the National Awakening Party (PAN) and Golkar Party offices in the town of Gresik, some 30 kilometers northwest of Surabaya. No fatalities were reported, but the police said that they had failed to curb the violent actions committed by at least 2,000 people.
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Thousands of people, supporters and opponents of President Abdurrahman Wahid, are almost certain to flock to the House of Representatives building on Thursday when the House plenary session is scheduled to discuss two scandals linked to the President. Among them are at least 5,000 students from various universities in Java, including the University of Indonesia (UI), Trisakti University and the Bandung Institute of Technology.
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Police fired tear gas and warning shots as thousands of rock-throwing students stormed the gates of Indonesia's parliament Monday in the largest protest yet against the country's president. Three students were badly beaten by police as running battles broke out on the lawns of the heavily guarded legislature.
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Massive demonstrations are expected to hit Jakarta and other cities in Indonesia on Jan. 29 when the House of Representatives will announce its stance on two financial scandals, allegedly involving President Abdurrahman Wahid. But the government and the Indonesian Military urged the public to be calm in responding to rumors about planned massive demonstrations by two opposing groups, one in support of Gus Dur and the other from anti-Gus Dur groups.
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The feared massive antigovernment rally failed to materialize here on Monday, and the city's unusually quiet streets were a testimony of residents' concerns. With some 40,000 stand-by security troops deployed across the city, businesses and schools were mostly untroubled, except for several places where bomb threats were received.
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