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1st year of Prabowo marked by paradoxical policies, decline in rights: Amnesty
Kompas.com – October 21, 2025
Nicholas Ryan Aditya, Ardito Ramadhan, Jakarta – Amnesty says that the first year of the administration of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has been marked by paradoxical public policies and a decline in respect for human rights.

Amnesty International Indonesia Executive Director Usman Hamid said that the Prabowo-Gibran administration's policy direction has displayed a populist image on the one hand, but was ridden with elite interests on the other.
Survey finds 63 percent say Prabowo government is using militaristic approach
Tempo – October 20, 2025
Dani Aswara, Sukma N Loppies – The economic and public policy research institute Centre for Economic and Law Studies (Celios) has found that the majority of the public believes that the government of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka uses a militaristic approach to governance.

A survey conducted by Celios of 1,338 respondents showed that 63 percent of the public believe that the Prabowo-Gibran government uses a militaristic approach in exercising power. As many as 24 percent of respondents disagreed and another 13 percent said they didn't know.
Student protesters in Jakarta say 'One year of Prabowo' is enough
Detik News – October 20, 2025
Taufiq Syarifudin, Jakarta – Protesters from the University of Indonesia Student Executive Council (BEM UI) held a demonstration on Jalan Medan Merdeka Selatan on Central Jakarta on Monday October 20. They brought eight demands called the "Asta Cita Rakyat" (the People's Asta Cita).

Based on detik.com monitoring at the location, the demonstrators from BEM UI arrived at around 4.11  pm and could be seen carrying a number of posters with demands related to the first year of the administration of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka.
Prabowo government has failed to meet public expectations: Survey
CNN Indonesia – October 19, 2025
Jakarta – The first year of the administration of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has been assessed as not meting public expectations.

A Centre of Economic and Law Studies (Celios) survey gave Prabowo's Red and White Cabinet a score of 3 out of 10, down from a score of 5 in the first 100 days.
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Drunken Republic
Battle over memory
Jakarta Post – August 19, 2025

Tama Salim – When I was growing up in the 1990s, history was something to be memorized, not understood. Like most Indonesian schoolchildren of my generation, I was taught a single, sanitized version of the national past.

More Kodam
Tempo – August 11, 2025

The Indonesian Military (TNI) under the administration of President Prabowo Subianto is growing bigger. The Army (TNI AD) now has 21 Regional Military Commands (Kodam) from the previous 15 throughout Indonesia.

One Piece
Kompas.id – August 10, 2025

Ahead of Indonesia's 80th anniversary of independence, social media has been flooded with images of flags from the Japanese anime One Piece flying on houses and vehicles instead of the national red-and-white flag.

Growth anomaly
Kompas Newspaper – August 9, 2025

The Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (INDEF) has expressed doubts over the credibility of the National Statistics Agency's (BPS) second-quarter economic growth figure of 5.12 percent, calling it an "anomaly" that does not reflect the real economic situation.

Adulterated officials
Kompas.id – July 20, 2025

Speaking during a working meeting at the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission IV in Jakarta, Minister of Agriculture Andi Amran Sulaiman said that the country has suffered losses amounting to 99.35 trillion rupiah due to adulterated rice (beras oplosan) circulating in the market.

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Rewarding soldiers who disappeared 98 activists vulgar, excessive: Observer
Kompas.com – October 14, 2025

Adhyasta Dirgantara, Robertus Belarminus, Jakarta – The Rose Team (Tim Mawar), which was a small team created by the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) Command Group IV in 1998, apparently still leaves traces to this day.

Former political prisoners support formation of Political Prisoners Union
Joint Statement – October 9, 2025

On October 4, as many as 27 detainees at the Metro Jaya Regional Police (Polda) Detention Centre in Jakarta formed a union called the Indonesian Political Prisoners Union (Serikat Tahanan Politik, STP). They formed the union after one of the detainees experienced torture at the detention centre.

Musicians, people's movement declares solidarity with detained activists
Kontras Press Release – October 7, 2025

Jakarta – A number of inter-band musicians and people's movement networks have declared their solidarity with the pro-democracy activists who are still being detained by police, four of which are Delpedro Marhaen, Syahdan Husein, Muzaffar S

60 years after 1965 mass killings: No justice and crimes repeated
Kontras Press Release – October 6, 2025

60 years ago, Lieutenant General Suharto and the Army under his command began the massacre and extermination of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). The reason was that the PKI was accused of carrying out the murder of several of Army generals and a coup against the Indonesian government.

Civil Society Coalition calls for calls for end to TNI role in civilian affairs
Kompas.com – October 4, 2025

Fika Nurul Ulya, Dani Prabowo, Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition for Security Sector Reform is pushing for a complete end to the Indonesian Military's (TNI) multi-functional practices in civil affairs in accordance with the mandate of reformasi and the principle of civilian supremacy.

Rally at US Embassy protests Israel's interception of Global Sumud Flotilla
Berita Satu – October 3, 2025

Dayat, Jakarta – Protesters who are members of the Global Peace Convoy Indonesia (GPCI) held a demonstration in front of the United States Embassy on Jalan Medan Merdeka Selatan in Central Jakarta on Friday afternoon October 3.