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View all search results1,500 personnel deployed to secure fuel-price hike protest
The city police have deployed thousands of police officers to guard the second day of mass protests to reject the government-proposed fuel price hike in front of the People's Consultative Assembly/House of Representatives (MPR/DPR) compound
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he city police have deployed thousands of police officers to guard the second day of mass protests to reject the government-proposed fuel price hike in front of the People's Consultative Assembly/House of Representatives (MPR/DPR) compound.
'Today (Tuesday), there will be demonstrations held by several groups. We have readied 1,500 personnel to guard the demonstration at the DPR RI,' said the city police's spokesperson Sr.Comr.Rikwanto as quoted by Antara news agency.
He said it was expected that around 1,000 people from student and labor elements would join the demonstration.
'In several other places, there will be demonstrations as well; however, they might be not too significant,' said Rikwanto.
The city police urge the demonstrators to stage the protest in an orderly manner in line with the Law No.9/1998 on freedom of expression. It is said that the police will take tough measures against protesters who drift into anarchy or disrupt the public order.
The police arrested 88 people -- comprising three junior high students, nine vocational school students, and 76 students from various universities -- on the first day of fuel protests, on Monday.
They were released after police carried out data collecting, interrogation and finger printing at their headquarters. (hrl/ebf)
