JAKARTA: Hundreds of workers and students in Indonesia rallied on Tuesday to demand the government to cancel fuel price hikes, a politically sensitive issue that has triggered past unrest.

Members of trade unions, farmers, fishermen, temporary teachers and domestic workers protested in front of the parliament building in the capital Jakarta and provincial governors' offices against the fuel price increase of 30 percent that President Joko Widodo announced last Saturday.

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