Indonesia: violent protests against a possible postponement of the next elections

In several cities in Indonesia, clashes between police and demonstrators have already caused several serious injuries against the possible postponement of the next elections.

Here in Jakarta on April 11, 2022. AFP - ADEK BERRY

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In the fourth most populous country in the world, students and activists demonstrated to protest against rising prices and a possible postponement of the next elections, mentioned by leading politicians in recent weeks.

In several cities, clashes between police and demonstrators have already caused several serious injuries.

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With our correspondent in Kuala Lumpur

,

It is a month of Ramadan which remains very hectic in Indonesia.

In a gloomy economic context with rising fuel and certain food prices, the possibility of an extension of the mandate of the current president

has thrown students and activists into the streets, in Jakarta, on the island Celebes or in the west of the island of Java.

Last week, two ministers publicly supported the idea of ​​a postponement of the next elections, supposed to take place in 2024, and the efforts of the president himself to silence this hypothesis were not enough to reassure part of the president.

A president under fire from critics

Re-elected for a second term in 2019, Joko Widodo has since come under fire several times, notably with the very liberal and controversial

, supposed to attract foreign investors, or with his pharaonic project to

from Jakarta to Borneo, a project that some consider too expensive and dangerous for the ecosystem.

Re-elected in part on a promise of

, Joko Widodo was then surprised by the global pandemic which, despite fairly light restrictive measures compared to neighboring countries, has pushed millions of Indonesians back into

.

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