Clad in black, about a thousand placard-carrying students in the major city of Yogyakarta marched through a busy thoroughfare yelling out demands for change, four months after Prabowo took office following a landslide election win.
‘Dark Indonesia’ has gained traction on social media to represent concerns about the cuts. Another popular trend, ‘Just Escape First’, sees people sharing advice on how to escape to work and live overseas.
“Indonesia is dark because there are many policies that aren’t clear to our society,“ Herianto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said.
Speaking at the protest in Jakarta on Thursday, state secretariat minister Prasetyo Hadi said the government had received the students’ demands and would study them.
The students were also demonstrating against the military’s move into civilian roles and a lack of subsidised cooking gas.
Indikator executive director Burhanuddin Muhtadi told Reuters Prabowo’s popularity could dip as the policies were rolled out when the country’s middle class had shrunk.
The demonstrations were the biggest since last August, before Prabowo took office, when the parliament shelved plans to revise election laws after thousands of protesters took to the streets, setting fires and facing down tear gas and water cannon.
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