On Tuesday last week, a 'million people' were supposed to take to the streets. At least, that was the target of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) to support the efforts of their politicians in the House of Representatives (DPR) to reject the government's planned increase of fuel prices. Everyone was initially excited about it.

This plan began to scale down just a few hours after protestors began taking to the streets. On Monday nigh