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I'm Krupa Abadi 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.
Police have been firing tear gas at protesters who have been throwing fireworks.
Well,
President Prabhawo Subhyato 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.
The situation has been further fuelled after footage spread of 21-year-old motorcycle taxi driver Afan Kurniawan being fatally run over by a police vehicle at the site of the protests.
The BBC's Astu Destra Ajingrasi.
is in Jakarta and she told me more.
So the protest has built up from about 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 3,000 US dollar or about 50 million rupiahs in Indonesia and that makes the total of the take-home pay that they get is exceeding the number of $6,000,
and that is about 30 times the average worker works in Indonesia.
So that sparked anger, and so protests started happening after people learned that fact.
On Monday, the huge protest erupted, and 300 people were detained after the protest ended.