They have been dropping them off at police stations throughout the country to express outrage over the arrest and trial of a 15-year-old boy for lifting an old pair of white sandals outside a boarding house used by police in northern Indonesia.
The teen - who was later interrogated and badly beaten by three of the officers in the Central Sulawesi provincial capital of Palu - faces up to five years in prison.
Thousands of people have dropped off their old shoes at police stations in recent days as a form of protest.
source:http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_751344.html