Burning with rage: A demonstrator shouting slogans during a protest demanding police reform and the dissolution of the parliament in Bandung, West Java on Sept 1. — AFP
In removing the country’s finance minister and U-turning on protester demands, the leader of South-East Asia’s biggest economy is scrambling to restore public trust while seizing a chance to install loyalists after deadly riots last month, experts say.
Demonstrations that were sparked by low wages, unemployment and anger over lawmakers’ lavish perks grew after footage spread of a paramilitary police vehicle running over a delivery motorcycle driver.
