Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us tear gas street battles hundreds of people injured indonesia has been rocked by days of protests against a set of proposed new laws demonstrators are angry about possible changes to their countrys criminal code that they say will roll back democratic reforms and in danger Civil Liberties for example one of those laws could mean that anyone who insults the president or Vice President might face 4 and a half years in prison another would regard sex with consent but outside of marriage as a criminal act punishable with up to one year in prison indonesian students are saying no to all of this. The citys streets turned into a smoke filled battle field police in jakarta fired tear gas at thousands of protesting students who fought back hurling rocks and torching public property because of it. But. Since the beginning of the week thousands of students have taken to the streets angry over a slew of proposed legal changes they say restrictive and regressive. The wage isnt limited to the capital protests have been erupting across the country like hearing impaired dang. In palo. Americas sun city. Oh. God historically students have been a driving force of political change in indonesia and with no end to the protest inside its aims history could be repeating. To keep up the pressure until their voices are heard. Those are pretty chaotic scenes out of the country lets break this down with w. s risking a graph from our Indonesia Service risky this isnt the 1st time that the government has tried to update its criminal code why are the protests happening now well the criminal court is probably one of the most important pieces of legislation since the fall of soeharto more than 30 years ago when is it true that the draft bill has been the kids in the making but the final version was finalized only in a hurry by the parliament 2 weeks ago the problem is that the draft contains more more than 18 problematic articles which were seen as a trip to a wide range of Civil Liberties and human rights tell us a little bit more about the sex before marriage law that theyre thinking about passing. So in recent years the conservative flank of the parliament has tried to push several legislations to ban premarital sex or to criminalize homosexuality this bill for example discussions of Sex Education reception and also ban Safe Abortion Services to woman so pfeiffers of 3 it even includes a 4 year jail term for the price of versions. A couple of weeks ago when the parliament tried to push the bill to protect victims of Sexual Violence but he was facing huge Oprah Zeeshan from islamic groups who say the drive decriminalizes premarital consensual sex and prostitution now when jungle widodo won people around the world not just in his country regarded it as a win against populism and against the rise of the extreme far right which is happening internationally what are we seeing right now why is this happening in terms of these conservative laws coming up and looking like theyre going to be passed. So. Theres one major problem namely his own Party Coalition led by the Indonesian Democratic Party of struggle these parties have their own agenda in terms of legislation which are not always in line with the president s policy that means even the president doesnt have enough political power to determine his own partys agenda so this major weakness has attracted questionable actors who offered to support the president but in reality theyre only pushing their own interests weve seen this last year and we dont it was forced by the question parties too except for the cleric as its already made bringing me for reelection in just a couple of weeks ago or last week even the future fights president. I mean sent a letter demanding to parliament to immediately passed a bill risky thank you. We are just days before the 70th anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic of china and beijing has planned massive nationwide celebrations the one thing that might not go according to plan is hong kong protesters have hit the streets for 16 straight weekends and they appear to have no plans to let up never mind chinas Birthday Party as a reminder hong kong is a part of china but is independently administered its this semi independence that has served as a rift all summer with its residents demanding more rights and the government representing the interests of the communist party choosing otherwise today hong kongs leader kerry lim finally some would say begins a series of what she builds Community Dialogues the people are skeptical have a listen. They wouldnt listen with 200000 people marched on the streets so why would they listen to just 150 people. I think its entirely pointless. We have mary whale out of hong kong joining us she is a journalist at quartz media whos covered the protests all summer marry this man weve just heard he says its pointless does he have a point. I think he speaks to the overwhelming sentiment among process that switches that these dialogue. Sessions much like the drop the extradition bill is too little too late and the protesters have been very clear about what they want its a fight for mom one of which has already been addressed that the they will drop the extradition but beyond that they also wore all of the things the setup of and the independent investigation leaves and retracting the right the 6 nations the process amnesty protests those are the best since june and of course universal suffrage so free and direct elections for the cheap except now china and by extension combs government has said that they well make any more concessions so on that front its a one stop so i think there is also the debate of course about the feasibility of some of these the mines but given how much this trust there is amounts members of the public to watch the police exceptionally in light of the many instances in which the police have. Excessive amounts of force against civilians in addition to protest this creates a site i dont think anything that. Will dress this issue Police Misconduct during the protests well and not doing anything to stop tensions its lifea well it sounds like then that protests will continue tell us what do the protesters have in mind this weekend what do they have planned on october 1st tuesday the anniversary date and do we expect any violence. We see quite a few days coming up ahead saturday see the fish and the bursary salt the Umbrella Movement and 2014 so there will be a large rally helped by coalition civil human rights rights they just got a mention when the police the whole village literally at this particular site the Central Government offices i expect that to be a fairly tame. Someday well see. Whats been quoted and a global terrorism watch in hong kong but also in conjunction with several dozen other cities all around the world so that is truly a global asshole calls trying to find a similarity around a while and i think the big question now is is important day which as youve said is the 70th anniversary of the founding peoples china i dont think anyone really has a crystal ball right now but the likelihood is that people who are not the mission will look a lot more. Protests wont spread to a lot of districts are city mary thank you. The promise of stardom and all the money that comes with it you can sell that dream especially when people are poor for years an acting coach in mumbai has held for a small fee or even for free to children into ravi one of the worlds biggest slums many students show up but just a very few might reach that big bollywood dream. Here. Here. In a studio tucked away in indias movie capital moment by a group of youngsters play their bollywood dreams. 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