- Title: Thousands of Indonesians join anti-Myanmar rally in Jakarta
- Date: 6th September 2017
- Summary: JAKARTA, INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 6, 2017) (REUTERS) ISLAMIST PROTESTERS RALLYING POSTERS PROTESTERS HOLDING BANNER BANNER SAYING (English) "STOP MUSLIM GENOCIDE" VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE BEHIND WIRE FENCE RIOT POLICE AND PROTESTERS PROTESTERS RALLYING PROTESTERS (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) PROTESTER AJUAN SURBAKTI SAYING: "We will keep pushing the government and also voice our concerns to international organizations, and our chairman has also written a letter to international human rights organizations and also to the Nobel prize committee in both Indonesian and English, to revoke the Nobel peace prize given to Aung San Suu Kyi." PROTESTERS SHOUTING PROTESTERS FLAG FAMILY TAKING PART IN PROTEST CHILD HOLDING FLAG BANNER ON WIRE FENCE SAYING (English) "STOP ROHINGYA GENOCIDE" PROTESTERS PRAYING IN FRONT OF BANNER SAYING (English) "STOP KILLING MUSLIMS IN BURMA" PROTESTERS PRAYING VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING
- Embargoed: 20th September 2017 08:36
- Keywords: Indonesia Rohingya protest Islamist muslim Myanmar
- Location: JAKARTA, INDONESIA
- City: JAKARTA, INDONESIA
- Country: Indonesia
- Topics: Race Relations / Ethnic Issues,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA0016XGJO05
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Thousands of Indonesians, led by Islamist groups, held a rally near the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on Wednesday (September 6) to protest against the treatment of Rohingya Muslims and demand the cutting of ties between the two countries.
Indonesia has the world's largest population of Muslims and there have been several anti-Myanmar protests in Jakarta and the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur over the treatment of Buddhist-majority Myanmar's roughly 1.1 million Rohingyas.
Roads were blocked and barbed wire barriers put up around the embassy in a leafy district of the capital. Police in riot gear set up water cannons as a precautions.
Some protesters chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest), while others shouted slogans such as "Slaughter Myanmar" and "Burn the embassy" while some called for Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize to be revoked.
Almost 125,000 Rohingyas have been forced to flee clashes between Rohingya insurgents and the army in Myanmar's northwestern state of Rakhine. Tens of thousands have crossed the border into neighbouring Bangladesh. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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