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Protests over the economy met with police brutality in Indonesia
Los Angeles Times
|September 06, 2025
Rising costs and inequality spark violent clashes and at least 10 have died.
A BANNER reading "135+ killed by authorities" at a Thursday protest in Jakarta.
Protests in Indonesia sparked by economic hardship have elicited a heavy-handed response from police, triggering concerns that the Southeast Asian nation could be returning to its authoritarian past.
As police trucks have been spray-painted with anti-law enforcement slogans, President Prabowo Subianto has denounced the demonstrations as “treason and terrorism” while seeking to assuage wide-ranging discontent.
Thousands have taken to the streets in major cities in the last week, joined at times by rioters setting fire to government buildings and looters ransacking the homes of politicians. At least 10 people have died and hundreds have been injured in the ensuing unrest.
On Wednesday, a coalition of student unions met with lawmakers and demanded an independent investigation into the police violence, portending further protests.
This story is from the September 06, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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