Six police members are being treated at the hospital now.Jakarta (ANTARA) - Six police personnel were injured here on Thursday after protests against the newly endorsed job creation law turned violent.
“Six police members are being treated at the hospital now,” chief of the public relations section of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police, Senior Commissioner Yusri Yunus, said on Thursday.
The policemen were injured in a clash after some ‘rioters’, who were neither workers nor students, joined a group staging a demonstration, he informed.
“They are all rioters. They provoked workers to commit rioting,” he said.
Nearly one thousand people suspected of being involved in clashes with police and vandalizing several public facilities were arrested by Thursday evening.
They are suspected of belonging to an anarchic group trying to incite rioting during the protest rallies, Yunus informed.
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Police will soon investigate people suspected of vandalizing public facilities, he said.
“We will investigate all of them. We will study the video recording. It is the rioters who vandalized them (public facilities). (We will also ascertain) How many facilities are damaged,” he added.
The Jakarta Metropolitan Police have deployed over nine thousand personnel as a precautionary measure against protests over the controversial law.
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The House of Representatives passed the job creation bill into law on Monday night amid mounting protests.
The passage of the bill into law has sparked widespread rallies in large Indonesian cities, such as Jakarta, Semarang, Bandung, and Malang.
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