Dear readers, protesting might not be the solution to all the problems. Find the root cause to the hike of the petrol price. When similar problem happens everywhere in the world it is no longer a country’s and its citizen’s problem. IT IS WORLD problem.
Dear world citizen, please get united through appropriate channels and find the answer to address this issue. Make sure government agencies strategies their expenditures in their administration and not to transfer to the public. Keep the country administration cost low. This will be the best way to seek for peace.
Read more on public protest on fuel price:
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India
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Communist and opposition parties in India are holding nationwide protests against a 10% rise in fuel prices.
The Communist-governed states of West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala are badly hit by a strike called by the parties who say the rise will fuel inflation.
The government says it had no choice because of surging global oil prices.
India imports nearly 75% of its crude oil requirements but subsidises the cost of domestic fuel products to help contain inflation and protect the poor.
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Indonesia
- Indonesia is to mobilise thousands of extra police in the capital Jakarta and other cities to guard against expected protests at fuel price increases. Petrol and kerosene prices are set to rise sharply on Saturday as the government cuts subsidies to try and tackle a budget crisis. Student groups and unions, who have already staged small protests, vowed bigger events ahead of the increase.
Jakarta’s police chief said an extra 5,500 officers would be deployed.
- Indonesia is to mobilise thousands of extra police in the capital Jakarta and other cities to guard against expected protests at fuel price increases. Petrol and kerosene prices are set to rise sharply on Saturday as the government cuts subsidies to try and tackle a budget crisis. Student groups and unions, who have already staged small protests, vowed bigger events ahead of the increase.
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Malaysia
- Some 50 people gathered in Jalan Pasar, Kuala Lumpur, this morning to protest the sharp hike in fuel prices which came into effect at the stroke of midnight.

