Jakarta – Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono took to Twitter on Monday (06/02) as a group of protesters descended on his house in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta.

On his Twitter account @SBYudhoyono, Indonesia's sixth president claimed hundreds of people had rallied and yelled in front of his home.

"Unless it has been revised, the law doesn't allow people to protest at private residences. Police never told me they were coming," Yudhoyono wrote in a tweet.

"I heard that at Cibubur camping ground yesterday students were yelling 'arrest SBY [Yudhoyono's nickname],'" he continued in another tweet.

"I'm asking the president and the police chief – don't I have the rights to live in peace in my own country? I only want justice. I leave the question of my personal safety to God," Yudhoyono said.

The head of the South Jakarta Police, Chief Comr. Iwan Kurniawan, said the protest at Yudhoyono's home, which involved around 500 students, was dispersed by the police at 2.45 p.m.

During the protest, the students handed out paper leaflets to passersby containing messages of support to Indonesia's state ideology Pancasila, encouragement for law enforcers to continue their probe into high-profile graft cases and protest against discrimination and radical groups.

"The protesters have been turned away. Six buses of them headed to the Semanggi area and seven to Central Jakarta," Iwan said.

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