Jakarta – The Advocacy Team for Democracy (TAUD) rejects the charges against activists who have been arrested for allegedly inciting students and children to take part in demonstration at the end of August.
TAUD criticised the police's use of Article 76H under Law Number 35/2014 on Child Protection. "So friends, what our clients did does not mean inciting children", said Sekar Banjaran Aji at the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) offices in Jakarta on Saturday September 6.
Jakarta – Protesters consisting of students, academics and civil society activists held a peaceful demonstration titled "The National People's Picnic" in front of the parliament building in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Friday September 5.
They wanted to call in the 17+8 People's Demands in the context of demanding accountability from the government and the House of Representatives (DPR). The deadline for the 17 short-term demands is today.
Ridho Danu Prasetyo, Faieq Hidayat, Jakarta – The All Indonesia Student Executive Council (BEM SI) held a protest action in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Thursday September 4.
The action, which was joined by students from various campuses, was titled "Save Indonesia" and took up 13 demands.
Protesting workers who are part of the Labour Movement with the People (GEBRAK) held a protest action at the Horse Statue near the National Monument (Monas) in Central Jakarta on Thursday September 4.
This afternoon, the demonstrators appeared to fill the Medan Merdeka Selatan road in the direction of Gambir train station. Earlier, they held long-march from the Thamrin business district to the Horse Statue.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jakarta – Mass actions that began with a demonstration demanding justice for the death of online motorcycle taxi driver (ojol) Affan Kurniawan, who was run over by a paramilitary Mobile Brigade (Brimob) tactical vehicle at an August 28 demonstrations, are still smouldering in a num
More than 900 people have been indicted using the rubber (catchall) articles under the Information and Electronic Transaction (ITE) Law and the Criminal Code (KUHP) over the last eight years said Amnesty International Indonesia today in its reflection on
Welcoming 80 years of Indonesian independence, the Indonesian History Transparency Alliance (AKSI) has warned of the dangers of a "national decline".
Putri Nurjannah Kurita, Sentani – The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) has called for peaceful actions to commemorate 63 years since the New York Agreement on August 15, 1962, and the racist incident against Papuan students in Surabaya on August 17, 2019.
The Civil Society Coalition Against Impunity condemns the awarding of a four-star honorary general rank on Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin.
In the lead up to the first year of the administration of President Prabowo Subianto, civil-military relations in Indonesia are showing a setback.
Banda Aceh – A gay couple who were apprehended by officials in the Sari Park toilet in the Acehnese capital of Banda Aceh with the initials QH (20) and RA (21) were sentenced to 80 lashes by a panel of judges of the Banda Aceh Islamic Court on Monday August 11.
