No Looting at Thamrin City Post-protests, Police Confirm
Translator
Ricky Mohammad Nugraha
Editor
Petir Garda Bhwana
Rabu, 14 Oktober 2020 07:46 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The chief of Jakarta’s Tanah Abang Police sector, Grand Commissioner Raden Jauhari denies rumors spread through chain messaging across messaging apps stating that the Thamrin City shopping center had been subjected to looting.
“Thamrin City is safe and there is no looting, no arson,” Raden confirmed to Tempo on late Tuesday evening, October 13.
However, he did confirm that a group of youngsters had been dispersed from Central Jakarta’s HI Roundabout, Gambir Station, and Menteng - which were locations where mass protests had spread - and these groups had been ‘beaten back’ to areas in the vicinity of the shopping center.
Tuesday saw mass protests against the passing of the omnibus job creation law. The protest was held by the anti-communism national alliance (ANAK NKRI) consisting of religious-based mass-organizations such as the ‘212 alumni brotherhood’, FPI, and the National Movement to Safeguard the Indonesian Ulemas (GNPF).
