Stampede for Joko’s jacket after violent Jakarta protest

China” during a swearing-in ceremony for the city’s legislative council last month.

Leading members of China’s Parliament said on Saturday the proindependence pair had damaged the territory’s rule of law and posed a grave threat to China’s sovereignty and security.

The move was expected to enrage Hong Kong democracy activists further, a day after hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police in running battles around China’s representative office here. JAKARTA: President Joko Widodo called for calm after a violent protest by hardline Muslims last week, yet it was his khaki bomber jacket that excited social media and triggered a rush by Indonesians to snap up similar clothing across the country.

The president, who normally wore a simple, white long-sleeved shirt, was rarely seen as a fashion icon by young Indonesians, who were among the world’s biggest users of social media like Twitter and Facebook.

The scenes on Sunday night were reminiscent of pro-democracy protests in late 2014 that paralysed parts of the Asian financial centre

In Beijing, China also adopted a controversial cybersecurity law to counter what the government said were growing threats, such as hacking and terrorism, although the law had triggered concern from foreign business and rights groups.

The legislation, passed by China’s largely rubber-stamp Parliament and set to come into effect in June, was an “objective need” of China as a

But Twitter was abuzz for hours with speculation over the brand of the jacket Joko wore in a televised appearance shortly after midnight on Friday, in which he blamed “political actors” for stirring trouble at a rally attended by more than 100,000 protesters.

An executive at a company that owned the franchise rights for Zara in the country said the jacket in question was made by the Spanish clothing retailer, and it was sold out in almost all of its stores. Reuters major Internet power, a Parliament official said.

Overseas critics of the law argued it threatened to shut foreign technology companies out of various sectors deemed “critical”, and included contentious requirements for security reviews and for data to be stored on servers in China.

Right advocates also said the law would enhance restrictions on China’s Internet, already subject to the world’s most sophisticated online censorship mechanism, known as the Great Firewall. Reuters