Masses to take over Bekasi Council

Masses to take over Bekasi Council

BEKASI: Some 200 people vowed on Monday to physically take over the Bekasi Council building unless the local legislators immediately launched an investigation into nine councillors from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) allegedly involved in irregularities during the recent municipal election.

"We will mobilize thousands of residents," said one of the protesters during the rally outside the Council building. The protesters did not give a timeline for when they would act.

The nine councillors reportedly were involved in some questionable back-room horse-trading in a hotel in Purwakarta one day before the election last Monday, while they were supposed be in "quarantined" along with other councillors at the Hotel Sahid in Cikarang. -- JP