Rachel Kathryn, Jakarta – The All Indonesia Student Executive Council (BEM SI) held a demonstration titled "Aksi Indonesia (C)emas 2025" (Indonesia Anxious Action 2025) at the Horse Statue on Jalan Medan Merdeka in Central Jakarta on Monday afternoon July 28.

During the action they submitted 11 demands ranging from the controversy over the burial of history through the government's project to rewrite Indonesian history to the military's dual socio-political function (dwi-fungsi) and rejecting the revisions to the Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP) and the lack of public participation in discussions on the law.

Jakarta – The People's Democratic Party (PRD) and Democratic Movement Alumni Forum are demanding that the state immediately and fully investigate the 1997-98 abduction of pro-democracy activists and other past gross human rights violations.

The demands, which were conveyed to coincide with the commemoration of the July 27, 1996 affair or Kudatuli, were made during a press conference held at the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) offices on Jalan Diponegoro in Central Jakarta on Sunday July 27.

Twenty-eight years after Indonesia's 1997 political and economic crisis and the 1998 tragedy, the state and the ruling regime have never resolved the problem of the rights abuses that occurred at that time.

The past gross human rights violations – the abductions and enforced disappearance of pro-democracy activists and the mass rape of ethnic Chinese women – have been put on the back burner. The government has been ambiguous and applies double standards in its handling of these cases.

Fadhli Arsil – Thousands of people from various segments of society crowded into the Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic circle in Central Jakarta on Sunday July 27 to take part in a demonstration titled "Solidarity March with Global March to Gaza". The demonstration was held as a form of concern over the humanitarian crisis plaguing Gaza, Palestine.

The protesters from the Defend Palestine Indonesian People's Alliance and several youth groups held a long-march from the United States Embassy to the nearby HI traffic circle before finally ending in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Menteng.