Indonesian politicians to be shortened in bidding to suppress the excitement

Indonesian political parties have agreed to cancel some state -funded profits that politicians receive in an attempt to suppress national protests, the country’s president said.

Several cities in the southern Asian nation, including the capital, Jakarta, have been covered by anti -government demonstrations over the past week, which sometimes lead to clashes between protesters and police.

While the protests were fueled by a wide range of questions – including the death of a driver to share a vehicle – a major complaint refers to a new monthly assistance to MPs.

President Prabovo Subianto has announced on Sunday that several advantages will be reigned, including the size of some allowances.

The Indonesian leader – who had already had to cancel a trip to China because of the excitement – said some demonstrations had exceeded what was considered peaceful and could be “state treason and terrorism”.

He added that he had ordered the police and the armed forces to take strong action against robbery and property damage.

Indonesia’s Finance Minister Sri Muliani Indravati was among several robbery on Sunday, AFP reports.

The protests are focused mainly on an increase of 50 million rupees ($ 3.030; $ 2,250 British pounds) in parliamentary allowances – almost 10 times the bigger than the minimum wage in Jakarta.

But they escalated after Afan Kurnywan, a 21-year-old driver to share a vehicle, was driven by a police vehicle during a demonstration in the capital on Thursday.

Three people were killed after protesters set fire to a regional parliamentary building on Friday night.

Over the weekend, protests continued, with police in Central Jakarta firing tear gas to scatter the crowds down the streets, while some demonstrators throw Molotov’s cocktails and fireworks into a police union.

Prabovo did not specify which legislators would be reduced to their allowances, but said that a moratorium would be imposed on overseas trips.

However, the discounts of protesters may not extinguish widespread disagreement.

Muzamil Ihsan, head of the body of all Indonesian students, the largest student group in the country, told Reuters that this move was “not enough” and that additional demonstrations were being considered.

“The government has to solve deeply rooted problems,” he said. “Anger on the streets is not without reason.”

Protesters demanded higher salaries, lower taxes, stronger measures to combat corruption, and expressed objections to the difficult way the police responded to some of the demonstrations.