{"id":73720,"date":"2025-08-29T22:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/29\/protests-clashes-indonesia-jakarta-police-vehicle-death-affan-kurniawan"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:30:06","slug":"protests-erupt-in-indonesia-over-death-of-man-hit-by-police-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73720","title":{"rendered":"Protests erupt in Indonesia over death of man hit by police vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government faces calls for police reform amid violent clashes across Jakarta and demonstrations in other cities<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Indonesians have protested at sites across Jakarta over the death of a man hit by a police vehicle, in the first big test for Prabowo Subianto\u2019s nearly year-old government.<\/p>\n<p>The man, a motorcycle ride-sharing driver, was hit at the site of violent clashes near parliament on Thursday as police sought to disperse demonstrators protesting about a number of issues including lawmakers\u2019 pay and education funding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/29\/protests-clashes-indonesia-jakarta-police-vehicle-death-affan-kurniawan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government faces calls for police reform amid violent clashes across Jakarta and demonstrations in other citiesHundreds of Indonesians have protested at sites across Jakarta over the death of a man hit by a police vehicle, in the first big test for Pra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-protest","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73721,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73720\/revisions\/73721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}