A crane is used to cover the statue of Guan Yu, a Chinese deity, with a cloth in Tuban, west of Indonesia's second-biggest city of Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia August 6, 2017 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Picture taken August 6, 2017. Antara Foto/Aguk Sudarmojo/ via REUTERS
TUBAN, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia has urged officials to stand up to mob pressure after Muslim and nationalist protesters called for a 30-metre-tall (100-ft-) statue of a Chinese deity erected in a temple complex in an East Java town to be torn down.
The brightly-painted statue of Guan Yu, a former general who is worshipped by some Chinese, was inaugurated in July in a temple complex in the fishing town of Tuban and is claimed to be Southeast Asia's tallest such representation of the deity.
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