SURABAYA, Indonesia — Indonesian police have arrested dozens of protesters following a rally against President Prabowo Subianto’s policies in the country’s second-largest city, a rights group said on Saturday.
Around 100 people gathered near a government building in Surabaya on Friday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalists estimated, to protest a fuel price hike and Prabowo’s flagship free meals scheme.
Some demonstrators hurled rocks toward police and set fire to rubbish in the middle of the road, prompting officers to arrest them, the reporters saw.