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i'm 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 country's 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. this.

city streets turned into a smoke filled battlefield police in jakarta fired tear gas at thousands of protesting students who fought back hurling rocks and torching public property. all the way. 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 isn't limited to the capital protests have been erupting across the country like here. in power who. america saw city. was 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 let's break this down with risking a graph from our indonesia service risky this isn't 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 20 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 turf through a wide range of civil liberties and human rights tell us a little bit more about this sex before marriage law that they're thinking about passing. so in recent years the conservative flying of the parliament has tried to push several legislations to ban premarital sex or to criminalize from sex while at

the this bill for example discussions of sex education perception and also ban safe abortion services to woman so 5 years of free and even includes a 4 year jail term for tris versions. were a couple of weeks ago when the parliament tried to push the bill to protect victims of 6 off islands where he was physically huge or position from islamic groups who say the drive decriminalizes premarital consensual sex and prostitution now when djoko 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 they're going to be passed. so we do has one major problem namely his own party

coalition led by the indonesian democratic party of struggle this 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 doesn't have enough political power to determine his own party's agenda so this major weakness has attracted questionable actors who offered to support the president but in reality they're only pushing their own interests we've seen this last year and you can read it was forced by the question parties to accept the conservative cleric as it's already burning meat for the election and just a couple of weeks ago or last week even the future 5 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 people's 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 china's birthday party as a reminder hong kong is a part of china but is independently administered it's 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 kong's leader kerry lim finally some would say begins a series of what she builds community dialogues the people are skeptical have a listen. they wouldn't listen when 200000 people marched on the streets so why would they listen to just 150 people. i think it's entirely pointless. we have mary whale out of hong kong joining us she is a journalist at quartz media who's covered the protests all summer marry this man

we've just heard he says it's pointless does he have a point. i think he states to the overwhelming sentiment among process this which is that these dialogue. sessions much like the drop the tradition bill is too little too late and the protesters have been very clear about what they want it's a fight for moms one of which has already been addressed that the that will drop the swedish vote but beyond that we also wore other things set up of in the in the investigation leaves and retracting the right the sick nation of the person that's amnesty because that's that's the best since june and of course universal suffrage so free and direct elections will achieve except now china and by extension all clones government has said that they well make any more concessions so on that front it's a one stop so i think there's also the date of course about the feasibility of some of these the mines but given how much mistrust 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 says it's a sight i don't think anything that is to address this issue police misconduct during the protests well and not doing anything to stop tensions and supplies a 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. the 5th and the 1st serious the umbrella movement in 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 says i expect that to be a fairly tame. someday we'll see. what's been quoted and of 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 small guarantee around the world and i think a big question now this is an important day which as you've said is the 70th anniversary of the founding people's republic of china i don't think anyone really has a crystal ball right now but the likelihood is that people who are not the mission or a lot more. protests won't spread to a lot of the streets our 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 world's biggest slums many students show up but just a very few might reach that big bollywood dream. whew. hew. here. in a studio tucked away in india's movie capital moment by a group of youngsters play their bollywood dreams. for 35 years ahead has been offering acting classes at his home and to ravi one of the world's largest slums. a money out were we teach extremely poor kids free of charge for those who can afford to pay fees started $100.00 rupees and go up to $400.00 to

$600.00 rupees depending on their age right now if there are 10 students who can afford to pay and 40 students who cannot. yeah yeah yeah the exercises are designed with flamboyant bollywood productions in mind i knew i. knew i had. for. some of lots of help students have gone on to work in the film industry in small acting or dancing wells so far the school hasn't produced a major star for 10 year old money sure my tree recently landed a parson the indian maid netflix serious layla she's hoping to make it to the top. when i grow up i would like to become a superstar a really famous superstar star and. become patients are at the heart of these classes where students are captivated by the allure of the bollywood beast.

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