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              100 arrested in Indonesia over fuel protest
Saturday, May 24th, 2008 AFP | Police arrested more than 100 protesters in the Indonesian capital Saturday after some burnt tyres and threw molotov cocktails during a rally over fuel price rises, police said. Indonesia hiked the cost of fuel by nearly 30 percent from Saturday in response to soaring global oil prices, and a ballooning subsidy bill, leaving hard-pressed households facing even more economic woes. “More than 100 people have been detained for questioning,” a police officer identified only as Ari told AFP. He said that hundreds of students staged the rally early Saturday in front of the National University in South Jakarta over the price rise decision. “Protesters have thrown small fuel bombs (molotov) towards the police and burned tyres on the streets,” he said. Police also arrested about 26 protesters who rallied outside the presidential palace at midnight on Friday, when the price rise came into effect, Detikcom News Website reported. A police officer said protesters had no permit to stage a rally there. In Bandung city in West Java, 1,000 protesters from hardline Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir held a protest Saturday morning to condemn the government’s move on prices, local ElShinta radio reported. Many ordinary Indonesians say higher fuel prices combined with the recent surge in the cost of food will put an intolerable strain on family budgets. The price hike sparked protests across the sprawling archipelago of 234 million people when it was flagged earlier this month by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The government defended the decision on Friday, saying in a statement that even with the hike, fuel was still subsidised and “lower than in poor countries such as East Timor.” Have Your Say: 100 arrested in Indonesia over fuel protest Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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