Detik.com
- July 13, 2009
Nograhany
Widhi K., Jakarta – On the first day of the new school term, Jakarta will be
besieged by six demonstrations. One of them will be held in front of the
Chinese Embassy in the Mega Kuningan area of South Jakarta.
According to
the Metro Jaya regional police Traffic Management Centre, the action will be
organized by the Islamic Community Forum (FUI) at 10.30am in response to the
riots involving Uighur ethnic Muslims in Xinjiang on Monday July 12.
Demonstrators
from the Nestle Indonesia Panjang Trade Union meanwhile will ‘descend’ upon the
Hotel Indonesia roundabout in Central Jakarta at 9am. They will then continue
the action at the Department of Labour and Transmigration on Jl. Gatot Subroto
in South Jakarta and finish the their protests at the PT Nestle offices on Jl.
TB Simatupang.
Also at the
Hotel Indonesia roundabout, protesters from the group People in Motion will
gather between 3-5pm.
Between 9am
and 4pm meanwhile, a group call the Dompu Society will hold a demonstration at
the Department of Maritime and Fishery Affairs on Jl. Moh Ridwan Rais in
Central Jakarta, then move off to the offices of the Minister for People’s
Housing on Jl. Raden Patah and then the House of Representatives building on
Jl. Gatot Subroto.
Still in
Central Jakarta, at 11am the Zoning and Construction Supervisory Office
building on Jl. Jati Baru, the Gambir train station and a house at Jl. Teuku
Umar 42-44 in Menteng will be ‘attacked en masse’ by members of the Cultural
Preserve Youth and Student Alliance of Concern from various different universities.
The Judicial
Commission offices on Jl. Abdul Muis in the Harmony area will also not be
spared. The Student Movement of Legal Concern (GMPH) will hold a protest action
there after first demonstrating at the East Jakarta District Court at 9am.
(nwk/amd)
[Translated
by James Balowski.]
