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No Tangerang residents at Friday's rally: Police
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Anti-communist protesters gather in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) complex on Friday. (JP/Yon)
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esidents of Tangerang in Banten refrained from participating in an anti-communist rally in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) complex on Friday, the police claim.
The so-called 299 rally, named after the date, Sept. 29, was held against the perceived revival of communism and the long-disbanded Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), an issue that sparked a mob attack on the Jakarta office of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) last week.
"No Tangerang residents are participating in the rally," Tangerang Police spokesperson Comr. Triyani said on Friday as quoted by tempo.co.
Based on their monitoring, the police said there had been was no mass movement of people heading to the capital.
Friday’s rally was also held to protest a regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on mass organizations, which was used by the government to ban Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), an Islamist organization that sought to establish a caliphate.
Previously, the Jakarta Police said 20,000 security personnel, comprising police and military personnel, would be deployed to safeguard the rally, which involved conservative Muslim groups that rallied against former Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama to demand his incarceration for blasphemy last year. (fac)
