{"id":73737,"date":"2025-08-30T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/30\/fire-kills-three-people-in-indonesia-after-protesters-storm-council-buildings-in-the-wake-of-taxi-drivers-death"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:15:58","slug":"fire-kills-three-people-in-indonesia-after-protesters-storm-council-buildings-in-the-wake-of-drivers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73737","title":{"rendered":"Fire kills three people in Indonesia after protesters torch council buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cities in Indonesia rocked by protests after motorcycle taxi driver run over by police tactical vehicle<\/p>\n<p>Protesters have torched parliamentary buildings in three further Indonesian provinces, a day after at least three people were killed by a fire started by demonstrators at a council building in the city of Makassar.<\/p>\n<p>Protests erupted across Indonesia after footage spread showing a motorcycle taxi driver being run over and killed by a police vehicle on Thursday night during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/26\/indonesia-protests-austerity-parliament-member-privileges\">earlier demonstrations over low wages for workers and perks<\/a> for lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/30\/fire-kills-three-people-in-indonesia-after-protesters-storm-council-buildings-in-the-wake-of-taxi-drivers-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities in Indonesia rocked by protests after motorcycle taxi driver run over by police tactical vehicleProtesters have torched parliamentary buildings in three further Indonesian provinces, a day after at least three people were killed by a fire starte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,156,3386,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-prabowo-subianto","category-protest","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73737","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73740,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73737\/revisions\/73740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}