Students return to streets as anger swells over wildfires, shrinking civic space

Students return to streets as anger swells over wildfires, shrinking civic space

Students and civil society groups across Indonesia took to the streets once again on Wednesday to demand the government's accountability over the persistent forest and peatland fires, while decrying what they say is a shrinking civic space under President Prabowo Subianto's administration.

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