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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm Krupa Bhatti and it's very good to have you with us.
It's been another tense day of violent anti-government protests across Indonesia.
Today,
we saw the homes of lawmakers and local council buildings ransacked and looted as anger mounts against a wide-ranging set of economic issues,
one of the core complaints being a new monthly allowance for lawmakers.
These are some of the sounds of Indonesia in recent days.
President Prabhau Subianto said some of the behaviour amounted to what he called treason and terrorism.
But in a concession to those who have taken to the streets,
he also announced that he'd cut some perks and extra pay for MPs.
Now,
the situation has been further fuelled after footage spread of a 21-year-old motorcycle taxi driver,
Afan Kurniawan, being fatally run over by a police vehicle at the site of the protest.
The protest has built up from a month or so when the Indonesian people realised that the parliament get a hike for their allowance,
which includes a housing allowance as much as US$3,000.
And that makes the total of the pay that they get exceeding the number of...
$6,000, about 30 times the average worker works in Indonesia.
And so protests started happening after people learned that fact.