Jakarta – Residents have taken to the streets to stop construction of a church Tambora, West Jakarta, claiming that organizers lack a needed permit.

Several people were seen on Sunday surrounding the Bunda Hati Kudus Foundation school, where the church was to be built.

"How can you just build a church when there's no permit?" Wawat, one of the men outside the school, said as quoted by kompas.com. "We have no issues as to what the school management plans to build, but there has to be a permit."

Wawat claimed that the school had falsified a letter with the required 60 signatures of local residents needed to build a house of worship. "We never signed such a letter," he said.

Police were also on hand to secure the school. School officials could not be reached for comment.