An anti-austerity protest movement gathers pace in Indonesia live from the UK. This is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Nick Koreshi in for Leanna Burn. They've been ramping up all week and now thousands more students in Indonesia have taken to the streets. The so-called dark Indonesia demonstrations are against budget cuts and other policies

of President Prabobo Subianto. He swept to power in a landslide election victory just four months ago.

So, what's it all about? The BBC's Nick Marsh is in Singapore. Hello.

Hi Nick. What's going on here? They're about these big budget cuts that the new administration

is trying to put in place.

President Praboh has been in office since October and he got elected off the back of some

pretty big promises of social programs. So things like free health screening, school renovations

and particularly this headline pledge of universal free school

lunches for some 83 million children in Indonesia. That's going to cost a lot of money. That money's

got to come from somewhere. And last month, President Prabhu said that the government needed

to make $19 billion worth of cuts to fund these

programs. And that's going to come from various government ministries, university budgets.

There's a lot of students out on the streets protesting. They're not happy about that.

Infrastructure projects as well.

So where does this all go from here, Nick?

Well, so far, the demonstrations have been by and large peaceful.

There were some sporadic clashes with police in places like East Java.

We are expecting thousands to go out into the street.

Security forces are sort of waiting and primed for action, as it were.

But this is all quite a big deal in Indonesia, though, regardless of whether it ends up being

violent or peaceful. I was reading accounts actually of civil servants and government buildings

who don't have toilet paper, they haven't got drinking water, the aircon and electricity's being

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