Jakarta protesters burn US

Hundreds of protesters again held a rally in front of the US Embassy, here, Monday, in protest of President Donald Trump`s Jerusalem decision.

Protesters burnt US and Israeli flags as well as the president`s pictures during the rally denouncing the US recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and plan to relocate the US Embassy to Al Quds, or Jerusalem.

Participants at the rally included members of the FPI, the Islamic Unity, Jamaah Ansharusy Syariah, and LPI.

The demonstrators called on the Indonesian government to sever diplomatic relations with the US and deport the US diplomats from Indonesia if the US government does not reverse its decision on Jerusalem.

Similar protests, mostly organized by the Islamist Prosperous Justice Party, or PKS, were also held in several other cities in Indonesia, the world`s most populous Muslim country.

The protests were the third and biggest in Indonesia since Trump`s decision on Thursday.

In the capital, protesters carried banners that read "U.S. Embassy, Get Out from Al Quds", "Free Jerusalem and Palestinians", and "We are with the Palestinians." Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.

Wearing traditional Islamic white robes, the protesters also unfurled Indonesian and Palestinian flags.

A written statement from the PKS described Trump`s decision as "a form of humiliation and provocation against Muslims all over the world."

It said similar and simultaneous protests were also held on Sunday in at least 10 provincial capitals and cities across Indonesia, AP wrote.

President Joko Widodo has strongly condemned the US decision on Jerusalem and called for a reconsideration of the move

Source: ANTARA