Protests & Popular Resistance

September 2025

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – September 9, 2025

Jakarta – Hundreds of students from a number of universities in the Greater Jakarta area (Jabodetabek) held a demonstration in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building today to call in the fulfilment of the 17+8 People's Demands issued during the previous wave of demonstrations on August 25-31.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas.id – September 7, 2025

Poki: Dad, buy me a new toy, this one's broken already. Take advantage of working from home, let's go for a trip. Mum, what about lunch, I'm hungry. Not listening, not seeing, ooh, the seat's too comfortable, so you've fallen asleep.

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – September 6, 2025

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.

Analysis/Indonesia
Arah Juang – September 5, 2025

Nearly a year into the regime of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, mass resistance has erupted again.

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – September 5, 2025

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.

News/Indonesia
Kompas – September 4, 2025

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.

News/Indonesia
Kumparan News – September 4, 2025

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.

Statements/Indonesia
PPR Statement – September 4, 2025

This assessment of the situation and our position is published after carefully and cautiously after observing and understanding the developments in the political situation throughout the last week of August 2025, so that we do not fall into political adventurism, the worship of spontaneous movements and mass anger, underestimating or overestimat

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – September 3, 2025

Jakarta – The Indonesian Women's Alliance (API) held a peaceful demonstration in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Central Jakarta on Wednesday September 3. According to CNN Indonesia's monitoring, they held a demonstration right in front of the main gate to the parliament complex.

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – September 2, 2025

Jakarta – The wave of demonstrations in Jakarta and several other regions over the past week has formulated a number of demands to the government regarding improvements in bureaucratic governance and law enforcement.