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Prabowo was due to attend China's "Victory Day" parade

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Protests on Saturday across Indonesia

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Lawmaker's house looted in Jakarta, media reports

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TikTok temporarily suspends live feature for Indonesia

(Recasts paragraphs 1 with trip cancelled, adds TikTok suspends

live feature in paragraph 7-8)

By Stefanno Sulaiman

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Indonesian

President Prabowo Subianto on Saturday cancelled a planned trip

to China as days of protests spread further outside the capital

Jakarta, with several regional parliament buildings set ablaze.

Prabowo had been due to attend a "Victory Day" parade in

China on September 3 to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of

World War Two following Japan's formal surrender.

The protests, the first major test for Prabowo's nearly

year-old government, began in Jakarta this week over lawmakers'

pay and worsened after a police vehicle hit and killed a

motorcycle rider.

"The president wants to continue monitoring (the situation

in Indonesia) directly...and seek the best solutions,"

presidential spokesperson Prasetyo Hadi said in a video

statement on Saturday.

"Therefore, the president apologises to the Chinese

government that he could not attend the invitation."

Another consideration in cancelling the trip was a United

Nations General Assembly session in September, Prasetyo said.

In the light of the protest, short-video app TikTok, which

is owned by China's ByteDance, said on Saturday it had suspended

its live feature in Indonesia for a few days.

Jakarta had this week summoned representatives of social

media platforms, including as Meta Platforms Inc ( META ) and

TikTok, and told them to boost content moderation because

disinformation had spread online. The government says that such

disinformation has spurred protests against it.

FIRES

Earlier on Saturday, protesters caused fires at regional

parliament buildings in three provinces - West Nusa Tenggara,

Pekalongan city in Central Java and Cirebon city in West Java,

local media reported.

Local media Detik.com said protesters had looted

parliamentary office equipment in Cirebon and police fired

teargas to disperse protesters in Pekalongan and West Nusa

Tenggara.

Three people were killed on Friday in an arson attack on a

parliament building in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi

province, Indonesia's disaster management agency said.

State news agency Antara said the victims had been trapped

in the burning building, and the disaster management agency said

two people were injured after jumping out of the building to

escape the fire.

Local media outlet metrotvnews.com reported one further

death from a fire at the Makassar parliamentary building. This

could not be independently confirmed.

Protests also occurred on the holiday island of Bali, where

teargas was used against protesters.

Local media also reported that a crowd had looted the

Jakarta home of Ahmad Sahroni, a lawmaker from the political

party NasDem, and taken items including household furniture.

Sahroni has faced accusations of responding insensitively to

people calling for parliament to be dissolved amid anger over

lawmakers' allowances. Sahroni has labelled such critics "the

stupidest people in the world".

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