Palembang, South Sumatra – Angry because their roads have been damaged by large coal-hauling trucks, residents of Prabumulih set up a blockade preventing trucks from passing between Muara Enim and Lahat to Palembang and Lampung.

"The trucks not only pass through in the day, but also at night in convoys. We have been complaining about this for a long time as each truck has a capacity of 10,000 tons, far higher that the normal limit of only 8 tons," Ucu, one of the protest coordinators, said. "Our complaints were never addressed," he said Monday.

He said the coal trucks had damaged 230 kilometers of state roads linking Palembang, Ogan Ilir, Prabumulih, Muara Enim and Lahat, he said.

The Muara Enim police station said that at least 1,000 trucks passed on the state roads every day.