Farouk Arnaz – Three foreign correspondents filed a report with the National Police on Tuesday over chemical burns they suffered while reporting on last week's chaotic anti-fuel price hike protests outside the House of Representatives in Jakarta.

Boby Gunawan, a cameraman with Al Jazeera, Alice Budisatrijo, of the BBC, and Louis Benjamin, of Reuters, have requested a police investigation into the incident. Boby said that he originally thought he was exposed to tear gas.

"Alice and Jak TV journalist Ananto [were] near me. We were confused because we thought it was tear gas, but it burnt. I ignored it for a while. I only realized it was a chemical liquid after I went to hospital and my skin blackened and had mucus on it," Boby said.

Alice first thought the liquid came from the water cannons police used to douse the crowd, but that was proven unlikely. "Those protesters were drenched from water cannons and yet they were all right. The [liquid] did not seem to come from either tear gas nor water cannons," she said.

National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Muhammad Taufik said the chemical burns were not from police. "This is a work of some people trying to infiltrate the protest and make it anarchistic. We're still investigating the perpetrators, as well as the liquid being used," Taufik said.

Indonesia's Press Council announced a probe into the incident on Monday after Jak TV reported that Ananto, a cameraman, was burned while filming the protest. (BeritaSatu/JG)