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Authorities charge 4 over anti-govt rally in Surabaya
Bangkok Post
|June 30, 2026
Indonesian authorities charged four people after an anti-government rally in the country’s second largest city, a local police official said on Sunday.
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About 100 people gathered near a government building in Surabaya on Friday, AFP journalists estimated, to protest a fuel price hike and a free school meals programme which has been blighted by mass food poisonings and corruption claims.
Some demonstrators hurled objects including firecrackers and rocks, Surabaya police chief Luthfie Sulistiawan told reporters, prompting officers to take “firm actions” to disperse them.
This story is from the June 30, 2026 edition of Bangkok Post.
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