Original sentence: A protest on 12 September 2023 involving 1,000 participants turned into a riot.However the residents rejected the plan.In July 2022, Investment Minister and Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) head Bahlil Lahadalia signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Xinyi Group for the development of an integrated glass industrial center in the Rempang Eco-City Area.In order to build the area, all of the land on the island was to be acquired with the 7,500 would be displaced residents being offered relocation elsewhere.On 21 August 2023, the residents blockaded the bridge connecting  Rempang and Batam.President Joko Widodo stated that the conflict  was triggered by a lack of communication, and directed Bahlil to have direct communications with affected residents on the compensation plan.The Rempang Eco-City Area was earmarked to support the Batam Free Trade and Free Port Zone
Edited sentence: In 2023, some people who claimed have lived on the island (and self-claimed ethnically Malay) since their childhood protested against the government plan to develop Rempang as the tourism and industrial sites, they protested because they refused to be relocated to another prepared housing area.The Indonesian authority started to questioned the legality of the people who claimed their settlements on Rempang, the president of Indonesia (Joko Widodo) has made it clear since 2019 that anyone who obstructs the national development plan through investment will be taken seriously, as the result, in September 2023, some of the protest masterminds are arrested and the national Indonesian polices started to further investigate the illegal settlements on the island.These protest and claim is so contrast with the fact that the island was pretty much uninhabited during the end of 20th century to the early 21st century, when the investment plan agreement was set