JAKARTA, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of protesters and police were injured after a mass demonstration staged by hardliner Muslim groups in the Indonesian capital turned violent on Friday night.
Three police trucks were torched by demonstrators who refused to leave the protest site near the presidential palace after they exceeded the time limit to hold the demonstration. Many demonstrators were seen lying on the streets as the police fired tear gas to disperse them, local TV footage showed.
The demonstrators, who refused to leave the site, were disappointed with results of a meeting between their representatives with Vice President Jusuf Kalla who gave assurance of a transparent and quick legal process against Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama over his blasphemy comments on the Koran.
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