Riot police have fired water cannon and rounds of teargas at hundreds of stone-throwing protesters in Indonesia’s capital as anger over the lavish allowances of parliament members has fuelled public anger.
1000’s of scholars, staff and activists demonstrated outdoors the nation’s parliament on Monday towards a month-to-month housing allowance of fifty million rupiah ($US3,075) for MPs, which is sort of 10 instances the Jakarta minimal wage.
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