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