Protesters burnt cars following the bloody clashes between security forces and religious followers of a revered 18th century Muslim scholar Habib Hasan bin Muhammad Al-Hadad in Jakarta's international port district of Tanjung Priok in Jakarta, Indonesia. Authorities effort to enforce a demolition on the section of the memorial shrine triggered bloody clashes between security forces and followers. Three personel of the city's public order force died in the riots while more than 100 people were also injured, many seriously while about 70 vehicles mostly from security forces were burned in the April 14 clashes between security forces and people protesting over plans to bulldoze part of the shrine. Police fired tear gas, pepper bullets and water cannon to disperse hundreds of men armed with machetes, swords and sticks who had massed to protect the sacred shrine which turned the area into a war zone.
