93 Police Injured In Riot Demo In Philippine Manila

Illustration of riot police guarding from riots (Unsplash-Omar Ram)

JAKARTA - The Philippine Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) revealed that about 50 people were taken to a hospital after clashes between the demonstrators and the authorities broke out during anti-corruption demonstrations in Manila yesterday.

Citing AFP, Monday, September 22, a police spokesman in the Philippines, Major Philipp Ines, said as many as 93 police officers were injured in the clashes based on data per day.

Ines added that the number of people arrested in the demonstration was likely to continue to grow because his party was still processing it.

Public anger over the 'ghost infrastructure project' in Southeast Asia has escalated since Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was highlighted in a state speech discussing the deadly flood disaster for weeks in his country in July 2025.

The Philippine Treasury Department estimates that the country's economic losses reach 118.5 billion pesos or 2 billion US dollars from 2023 to 2025 due to corruption in flood control projects in the country.

Greenpeace estimates that the state's loss to the alleged corruption of the natural disaster management project is actually close to USD 18 billion.

Flood disasters in the Philippines are expected to occur again today after Typhoon Super Ragasa is predicted to hit the country's northernmost provinces.

The Philippines as an archipelagic country is hit by an average of 20 storms and typhoons every year. Natural disasters that are generally in vulnerable areas and their communities are at the poverty level.