JAKARTA: Issues concerning the Malaysia-Indonesia border in West Kalimantan which were played up by the Indonesian media, caused a group of Indonesians to stage a demonstration outside the Malaysian embassy here Wednesday.
However, the protest went out of control resulting in a glass panel at the guard post at the entrance to the embassy to be damaged while nine Indonesian policemen, who were part of a team for crowd control and guarding the embassy, were injured.
The group, calling itself Forum Betawi Rempug (FBR) and numbering a few hundred people, hurled hard objects at the guard post, perimeter lighting and the policemen.
They began gathering there at about 1pm local time and dispersed about an hour later after venting their anger over news reports that Malaysia had seized 1,000 acres of land belonging to Indonesia along the Malaysia-Indonesia border in West Kalimantan.
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