People run as a fire burns during last week’s riots in Jakarta. Photo: Bloomberg People run as a fire burns during last week’s riots in Jakarta. Photo: Bloomberg
People run as a fire burns during last week’s riots in Jakarta. Photo: Bloomberg
Karim Raslan
Opinion

Opinion

Ceritalah by Karim Raslan

Indonesia riots: how peaceful protests against Joko Widodo’s re-election descended into violent chaos

  • Teacher Dita Hidayatunnisa tells of how she and friends narrowly escaped the wrath of rioters as darkness fell on Jakarta last Wednesday
  • Further fracturing of social fabric leaves country’s president with mammoth challenges in healing the nation

Karim Raslan
Karim Raslan

Updated: 3:11pm, 28 May, 2019

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People run as a fire burns during last week’s riots in Jakarta. Photo: Bloomberg People run as a fire burns during last week’s riots in Jakarta. Photo: Bloomberg
People run as a fire burns during last week’s riots in Jakarta. Photo: Bloomberg
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