Police have thwarted an attempt at a protest comeback for a controversial buffalo that offended Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

On Wednesday, the same buffalo that offended the president when it appeared at a rally on January 28 protesting Yudhoyono's first 100 days in office was scheduled to make a return to the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Central Jakarta.

However police stopped the pick-up vehicle transporting the animal from Bekasi, West Java, in Kalimalang, East Jakarta, and said that the animal was not allowed to join the rally because it would disturb public order.

Yudhoyono complained on Tuesday that protesters who used the buffalo as a depiction of him during a protest were being uncivilized.

"The [demonstrators] brought a buffalo, [implying] that SBY's body was as big, lazy and stupid as the buffalo," he said on Tuesday, to the amusement of journalists.

But the president's complaint seems to have only stirred up his bovine-wrangling opponents, who had pledged to bring the buffalo to a protest on Wednesday.

Rally organizer Yosep Rizal told detik.com that the buffalo was named "Si Lebay," which is slang for overreacting. He borrowed the beast from a friend and said it was a seasoned protester that had joined three rallies so far.

"The first one was the rally at the KPU (General Election Committee), the second was on January 28 and the third will be today," he said.

Yosep said the buffalo was not meant to symbolize anyone. "It has many meanings so it's up to the people to decide. The fact is, SBY concluded for himself that he is fat and slow," Yosep said.

He added that Yudhoyono shouldn't have reacted so seriously to the buffalo's appearance. "If he doesn't feel like that (fat and slow), then he shouldn't feel offended," he said.

Yosep earlier told detik.com that he was not worried or afraid if the police tried to block him and his buffalo from taking to the streets. "If they banned us, it would mean the government violated our rights to freedom of expression," he said.