200,000 protest in Indonesia against Jakarta government

‘Some 200,000 Indonesians have taken to the streets in Jakarta in a second, major protest rally against the governor of the capital .
They gathered in Jakarta’s National Monument park on Friday, calling for the arrest of Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a who is being prosecuted as a suspect in a blasphemy case.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, who is a political ally of the embattled Jakarta governor, unexpectedly arrived at the site and called for protesters to disperse peacefully.
Over 20,000 security forces had been deployed to the city to ensure the demonstration stayed orderly. Police said they had arrested eight people suspected of “treason.”’
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