Protests have resumed in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, after the death of a motorcycle taxi driver hit by a police vehicle during a demonstration over a range of cost-of-living issues.

Affan Kurniawan was killed on Thursday after an armoured police vehicle ran into him outside Indonesia’s House of Representatives, as riot police were dispersing crowds who had gathered to demand higher wages, lower taxes and the removal of allowances for politicians.

Motorcycle taxi drivers gathered outside Jakarta Mobile Brigade Corps headquarters on Friday to protest against Kurniawan’s death, and students urged protesters to rally later outside police headquarters in the capital city.

President Prabowo Subianto called for calm, expressed condolences for the death of Kurniawan, and ordered a thorough p

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