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Jakarta, Indonesia -- Rains seemed to hamper planned protests in Indonesia's capital city as smaller than expected crowds hit the streets Wednesday.
About 20,000 security officers had prepared to be on the streets in Jakarta in anticipation of the protests to mark President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's one-year anniversary since being re-elected.
Yudhoyono was inaugurated for his second term last October and protesters in the past have alleged that his government has had problems with corruption.
"We guarantee that the capital will be safe today," Iskandar Hasan, the spokesman for the national police said before the protests. " Please continue doing business as usual."
Despite the rains Wednesday, crowds gathered in front of the president's palace, some charging that the country's government was corrupt and had committed human rights abuses.
In December, thousands of protesters gathered in several cities in Indonesia to push the government to deal with rampant allegations of corruption.
Demonstrators massed in Jakarta, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Bandung and West Java.
Those protests were planned to coincide with the International Anti-Corruption Day declared by the United Nations to raise awareness about efforts to combat graft.
Those protests came amid a growing public dissatisfaction over investigations into a bailout of Indonesia's Century Bank.
The controversy began when critics accused the president and some of his political allies of benefiting from the bailout money.
