Street vendors peddling their sales on Aug 22, 2024, amid demonstrations to reject the ratification of the Revised Regional Election Law in front of the House of Representatives Building in Jakarta. - Jakarta Post/ANN
JAKARTA: While thousands of people staged demonstrations at several strategic points in Jakarta on Thursday (Aug 22), app-based ojek (motorcycle taxi) drivers and street vendors continued their business by exercising some caution to avoid potential violence.
Fatah, a street vendor selling snacks and beverages like hot coffee with his bicycle, ran his businesses like any other day in front of the Sudirman railway station in Central Jakarta, some five kilometres away from a demonstration at the House of Representatives (parliament) building.
