Firman Hidayat, Samarinda – Around 500 students, NGO activists, and laborers in Samarinda demonstrated today protesting the government's plan to increase fuel prices.

They required the provincial government of East Kalimantan to make a written statement refusing the increases. "Raising the fuel price shows Yudhoyono-Kalla's attitude really pro to foreign capital like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said Japun, the speaker.

They all walked three kilometers toward governor's office, shouting 'Don't raise the fuel price.'

"The fuel price increase will create a massive work termination," said one of the students in the demonstration.