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SURABAYA, June 27 — Indonesian police have arrested dozens of protesters following a rally against President Prabowo Subianto’s policies in the country’s second-largest city, a rights group said today.<\/p>\n

Around 100 people gathered near a government building in Surabaya yesterday, AFP journalists estimated, to protest a fuel price hike and Prabowo’s flagship free meals scheme.<\/p>\n

Some demonstrators hurled rocks towards police and set fire to rubbish in the middle of the road, prompting officers to arrest them, the reporters saw.<\/p>\n

Twenty-four protesters were arrested, Fatkul Khoir, a coordinator at rights group KontraS Surabaya, told AFP on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Police questioned them until 3:30am today but did not charge them, he said.<\/p>\n

Surabaya police chief Luthfie Sulistiawan told reporters late yesterday that officers had taken “firm actions” to push back protesters after some threw projectiles.<\/p>\n

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He said there had been “dozens” of arrests but did not specify the number.<\/p>\n

Protests erupted in several Indonesian cities this month after Prabowo’s administration raised prices of non-subsidised gasoline by around 30 per cent, seeking to ease budgetary pressures as the Middle East war weighs on global oil supplies.<\/p>\n

Thousands of students took to the streets in the capital Jakarta to oppose both the fuel price hikes and to demand a halt to the multi-billion-dollar free meals scheme.<\/p>\n

The initiative has been a cornerstone of Prabowo’s political agenda but has received widespread criticism for being wasteful and linked to mass food poisonings. It has since been partly suspended.<\/p>\n

Indonesia’s biggest unrest since Prabowo took office in 2024 came in August and September, when nationwide protests took place initially over lavish perks for lawmakers.<\/p>\n

However, they spiralled into an outburst of anger against security forces after a police vehicle ran over a delivery driver and killed him.<\/p>\n

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Rights groups said those protests resulted in 10 deaths and thousands of arrests, though most people have since been released. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SURABAYA, June 27 — Indonesian police have arrested dozens of protesters following a rally against President Prabowo Subianto’s policies in the country’s second-largest city, a rights group said today. Around 100 people gathered near a government building in Surabaya yesterday, AFP journalists estimated, to protest a fuel price hike and Prabowo’s flagship free meals scheme….<\/p>\n

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