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ARTICLE VIEW:
Indonesia’s president cancels China trip and TikTok suspends live
video as deadly protests continue
Story by Reuters
Updated:
9:40 PM EDT, Sat August 30, 2025
Source: Reuters
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Saturday canceled a planned
trip to China as days of protests spread further outside the capital
Jakarta, with several regional parliament buildings set ablaze.
Prabowo had been due to attend a “” parade in China on September 3
to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two following
Japan’s formal surrender.
The , the first major test for Prabowo’s nearly year-old government,
began in Jakarta this week over lawmakers’ pay and worsened after a
police vehicle hit and killed a motorcycle rider.
“The president wants to continue monitoring (the situation in
Indonesia) directly…and seek the best solutions,” presidential
spokesperson Prasetyo Hadi said in a video statement on Saturday.
“Therefore, the president apologizes to the Chinese government that
he could not attend the invitation.”
Another consideration in canceling the trip was a United Nations
General Assembly session in September, Prasetyo said.
In the light of the protest, short-video app TikTok, which is owned by
China’s ByteDance, said on Saturday it had suspended its live feature
in Indonesia for a few days.
Jakarta had this week summoned representatives of social media
platforms, including Meta Platforms Inc and TikTok, and told them to
boost content moderation because disinformation had spread online. The
government says that such disinformation has spurred protests against
it.
Regional parliament fires
Earlier on Saturday, protesters caused fires at regional parliament
buildings in three provinces - West Nusa Tenggara, Pekalongan city in
Central Java and Cirebon city in West Java, local media reported.
Local media Detik.com said protesters had looted parliamentary office
equipment in Cirebon and police fired teargas to disperse protesters in
Pekalongan and West Nusa Tenggara.
on Friday in an arson attack on a parliament building in Makassar, the
capital of South Sulawesi province, Indonesia’s disaster management
agency said.
State news agency Antara said the victims had been trapped in the
burning building, and the disaster management agency said two people
were injured after jumping out of the building to escape the fire.
Local media outlet metrotvnews.com reported one further death from a
fire at the Makassar parliamentary building. This could not be
independently confirmed.
Protests also occurred on the holiday island of Bali, where tear gas
was used against protesters.
Local media also reported that a crowd had looted the Jakarta home of
Ahmad Sahroni, a lawmaker from the political party NasDem, and taken
items including household furniture.
Sahroni has faced accusations of responding insensitively to people
calling for parliament to be dissolved amid anger over lawmakers’
allowances. Sahroni has labeled such critics “the stupidest people in
the world.”
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