Indonesian President Prabowo calls for calm as public outrage grows

People gather around a burned-out car set ablaze during a protest outside the Jakarta Police’s Mobile Brigade headquarters (Mako Brimob) on Aug 29, 2025, a day after a motorcycle taxi driver was killed when he was run over by a police tactical vehicle. - Photo: AFP

JAKARTA: President Prabowo Subianto has urged calm as public anger mounts following the death of an online ride-hailing driver who was run over by a police tactical vehicle during clashes in Central Jakarta on Thursday (Aug 28) evening.

Shock and fury rippled across the country after a video surfaced showing the driver, later identified as 21-year-old Affan Kurniawan, falling during the chaos and being run over by an armored vehicle belonging to the National Police’s Mobile Brigade (Brimob).