Jakarta, Aug. 25 -- An Indonesian minister said the government has no objection to the mass protest staged by citizens against the House of Representatives (DPR) on Monday, calling it "a natural phenomenon in a democracy."

Thousands of protesters under the banner of the Revolution of the Indonesian People gathered around the Parliamentary Complex in Jakarta, demanding the dissolution of the DPR, the cancellation of the ongoing Criminal Procedure Code revision, and the rejection of additional benefits for legislators.

"We are not forbidding residents from staging demonstrations. People are allowed to raise their voices, including calls for the dissolution of parliament," Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corre...