(9 Dec 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of protest outside National Monument
2. Wide of stage with protesters standing in front holding flags
3. Protester singing on stage
4. Protesters sitting on ground
5. Various of protesters putting red paint on their faces and bodies
6. Reverse shot of police officers
7. Tilt up from boots to police officers
8. Close of banner with picture of Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani, reading English) "Wanted"
9. Protester holding banners
10. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Tharid Mahmud, Protester:
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"Indonesia will never prosper as long as corruption exists. We want to ratify the laws to allow death penalty for corrupters. That is what they deserve."
11. Wide of protest outside presidential palace
12. Mid of protesters holding flags
STORYLINE
More than two dozen rallies were planned across Indonesia on Wednesday to mark International Anti-Corruption Day.
The rallies - annual events in this Muslim-dominated nation - were planned in the capital Jakarta and several other cities.
At one, in Makassar, the South Sulawesi provincial capital, a thousand miles (1,600 kilometres) from Jakarta, students pelted police with rocks, who returned fire with tear gas.
Some buildings were also vandalised and tear gas was fired when students tried to storm the provincial governor's office, MetroTV reported.
The protesters were demanding government action to end corruption among politicians, police and other public officials.
In Jakarta, a dozen rallies caused downtown traffic chaos in this city of 13 (m) million.
Thousands marched peacefully on the Jakarta palace of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is under pressure to act after winning re-election in July on promises of stamping out graft.
Hundreds of anti-riot police were stationed outside his palace, backed up by two water cannon.
Large rallies were also staged in towns and cities across the archipelago, including Pamekasan, Bandung, Surabaya, Jayapura, Palu, Jember, Solo, Semarang, Banda Aceh, Malang and Palembang.
Yudhoyono's popularity has already been tested by scandals surrounding Indonesia's anti-graft commission and a 6.76 (t) trillion rupiah (715 (m) million US Dollars) government bailout of a bank.
Earlier this week, he told The Jakarta Post that he believed the protests were partly aimed at destabilising his government.
Yudhoyono said late on Tuesday in a nationally televised speech that he would play a leading role in the fight against corruption.
However, he faced questions over the last year's bank bailout, which critics have alleged was full of irregularities.
Indonesian lawmakers last week launched an inquiry into allegations that the bailout benefited Yudhoyono's re-election campaign - a claim he has denied.
Outside his palace on Wednesday, protesters burned pictures of Vice President Boediono, who goes by only one name, and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani.
Both have been accused of corrupt involvement in the bank bailout but have denied any wrongdoing.
The Indonesian government's struggle against graft has also been hurt by a dispute between the top anti-graft agency and rival police and prosecutors in Indonesia.
Investigators concluded that senior law enforcers tried to frame anti-graft officials from the Corruption Eradication Commission on fabricated
charges of bribery and blackmail.
According to advocacy group Transparency International's corruption index, Indonesia ranks 111th out of 180 countries, with Somalia ranking the worst.
The Corruption Eradication Commission has been key to efforts to fight corruption in recent years.
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