Hundreds of Indonesian students took to the streets on Wednesday (Oct 28) to protest rising prices, dwindling subsidies as well as the government\u2019s handling of forest fires.
In Jakarta, protesters from different universities and non-for-profit organisations flocked to Jalan Thamrin and Jalan Sudirman, two of the city\u2019s busiest thoroughfares where many local and foreign companies are headquartered, carrying banners critical of President Prabowo Subianto\u2019s policies.
They also called on the government to declare the ongoing wildfires in Sumatra and Kalimantan a national disaster and to halt spending on populist programmes such as Prabowo’s free meals scheme, which have caused state spending to balloon at the expense of more critical programmes like disaster mitigation and infrastructure development. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hundreds of Indonesian students took to the streets on Wednesday (Oct 28) to protest rising prices, dwindling subsidies as well as the government\u2019s handling of forest fires.In Jakarta, protesters from different universities and non-for-profit organisations flocked to Jalan Thamrin and Jalan Sudirman, two of the city\u2019s busiest thoroughfares where many local and foreign companies are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n