The state Antara news agency reported that police had fired two warning shots and detained 20 people suspected of damaging property. “It’s just an honorary consulate, so there’s no sort of security there,” said the official, who declined to be named. An embassy official said a Dutch flag was taken down and burnt. The protesters also pulled down a wooden signboard at the consulate. Users subscribing to an Internet service provided by the country’s largest telecoms company, PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, said they could still access YouTube.ĭozens of students burned tyres and pushed against the gate of the Dutch consulate in Medan, prompting police to hold protesters back from around the consulate, Metro TV showed. They have started doing it now,” Ahmadjayadi told Reuters. “Our efforts include asking Internet service providers to block access to YouTube. Indonesia’s information minister, Muhammad Nuh, has written to the video-sharing Web site YouTube asking it to remove the film, said Cahyana Ahmadjayadi, the ministry’s director general for information technology. On Wednesday, a Dutch flag flying outside a consulate in the Sumatran city of Medan was set ablaze. Indonesia has banned broadcasts of the film by Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch anti-immigration Freedom Party, and radical Muslims called for the lawmaker’s death during protests outside the Dutch embassy in Jakarta this week. Demonstrators hold a placard of Geert Wilders during a protest against the Dutch politician and anti-Islam film-maker at Dam square in Amsterdam March 22, 2008.
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