Reynas Abdila, Jakarta – A number of activists being detained at the Jakarta Metro Jaya Regional Police (Polda) detention centre have launched a joint hunger strike.

Surabaya – The East Java Regional Police and its officers have confiscated 11 books from protesters involved in demonstrations that turned violent in Surabaya and Sidoarjo on August 29-31.

Responding to the government's decision not to form a Joint Fact Finding Team (TGPF) related to a series of demonstrations that claimed at least eleven fatalities at the end of August, Amnesty International Indonesia Executive Director Usman Hamid, said:

Jakarta – The Indonesian Women's Alliance (API) held a flower-laying action in front of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police (Polda Metro Jaya) Headquarters in Jakarta on Wednesday September 12 as an expression of their demand for the release of Lokataru Foundation Director

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition is demanding that Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto be serious about reforming the Indonesian National Police (Polri).

Lisye Sri Rahayu, Jakarta – Defence Minister Sjafri Shamsuddin has confirmed that he has approved the deployment of the Indonesian Military (TNI) to guard the House of Representatives/Peoples' Consultative Assembly (DPR/MPR) building in Senayan, Jakarta.

Robertus Belarminus, Jakarta – Military observer and Chairperson of the Centra Initiative Working Group, Al Araf, says that the reform of the Indonesian Military (TNI) has experienced a setback since the administration of the 7th president of the Republ

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition for Police Reform has recorded that around 400 demonstrators are still being detained by police.

Poki: For my birthday, have you read the list of presents I want?

Father: That's a lot? Hmm, normative.

Poki: Normative, by the way it's upside down, yeah. Are you reading it properly? Focus!

Father: The cover's pink and green. Cool yeah.

Dythia Novianty, Yaumal Asri Adi Hutasuhut – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has revealed that there was alleged forced disappearances that occurred during the demonstrations that took place on August 25-31.