This sparked stone-throwing and large scale clashes between crowds of demonstrators and police and soldiers and ended with the largest riots in Jakarta for 12 years, with buildings and cars being burned. The government and the military blamed the PRD for the disturbances, accusing it of being a communist organization with links to the banned Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and Amnesty International. However the report into the incident by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) made no mention of the PRD.
This triggered stone-throwing and large-scale clashes between demonstrators and police, soldiers, resulting in the largest riots in Jakarta for 12 years, with buildings and cars being burned. The government and military blamed the PRD for the disturbances, accusing it of being a communist organization with ties to the banned Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and Amnesty International. However, the report by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) made no mention of the PRD.