{"id":73754,"date":"2025-09-01T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/01\/indonesia-protests-president-prabowo-subianto-scraps-lawmakers-perks"},"modified":"2025-09-01T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:42:10","slug":"indonesia-protests-president-scraps-lawmakers-perks-in-bid-to-calm-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73754","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia protests: president scraps lawmakers\u2019 perks in bid to calm tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people have now died in nationwide protests, forcing Prabowo Subianto to remove perks include a housing allowance worth 10 times the minimum wage<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia\u2019s President Prabowo Subianto has pledged to revoke lawmakers\u2019 perks and privileges, including a controversial $3,000 housing allowance, in a bid to ease public fury after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/29\/protests-clashes-indonesia-jakarta-police-vehicle-death-affan-kurniawan\">nationwide protests<\/a> in which six people have died.<\/p>\n<p>Flanked by leaders of eight Indonesian political parties, Prabowo told a televised news conference in the capital, Jakarta, that they had agreed to cut the housing allowance and suspend overseas trips for members of parliament. It was a rare concession in response to mounting public anger.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/01\/indonesia-protests-president-prabowo-subianto-scraps-lawmakers-perks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people have now died in nationwide protests, forcing Prabowo Subianto to remove perks include a housing allowance worth 10 times the minimum wageIndonesia\u2019s President Prabowo Subianto has pledged to revoke lawmakers\u2019 perks and privileges, including&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-prabowo-subianto"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73754","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73756,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73754\/revisions\/73756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}