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ARTICLE VIEW:
Three dead as Indonesian protesters set fire to regional parliament
building
Story by Reuters
Updated:
5:36 AM EDT, Sat August 30, 2025
Source: Reuters
Three people died and five were injured in after protesters set fire to
a regional parliament building, authorities said on Saturday, as
demonstrations pose the first major test to President Prabowo
Subianto’s government.
The Southeast Asian nation’s disaster management agency, in a
statement, did not give the causes of the deaths in the Friday evening
fire in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province.
The Antara news agency said the dead victims allegedly had been trapped
in the burning building. The disaster agency said two of the injuries
resulted from people jumping out of the building.
Protests began in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta this week over
lawmakers’ pay, escalating on Friday after a police armored vehicle
hit and killed the driver of a ride-hailing motorbike.
Prabowo, who took office in October last year, visited the home of the
driver late on Friday, offering condolences to his parents and vowing
to oversee the investigation into his death.
Local media reported isolated looting in Jakarta and damage to several
transportation facilities in Jakarta on Friday, as well as
demonstrations in the major cities of Bandung and Yogyakarta.
Jakarta’s mass rapid transit railway said trains were not stopping at
one station on Saturday near Friday’s protest site, while the Jakarta
province-owned Transjakarta bus service said it was unable to serve
customers.
There were no immediate signs of protests on Saturday.
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