NATUNA, Indonesia: Hundreds of residents of a remote Indonesian island protested Monday at the government´s decision to use it to quarantine evacuees from the Chinese city at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.
Indonesia has evacuated 237 citizens and one foreign national, married to an Indonesian, from Wuhan. The evacuees, mostly students, landed Sunday and will be quarantined for 14 days on Natuna island, which lies between Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia.
"The government´s decision to quarantine Indonesians who returned from China has made people feel uneasy, so we strongly reject it," Fadillah, one of the protesters who like many Indonesians goes with one name, told AFP.
The protesters, wearing green surgical masks, demonstrated in front of the local parliament building, demanding the local authorities relocate the evacuation centre away from a residential area.
Police said they arrested a 15-year-old male at the scene
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