SKETCHERYYY!!!!

People ransacked and looted Sahroni's house (member of DPR). Looting are also happened at Eko Patrio, Uya Kuya, and Sri Mulyani (as of right now, only Sahroni's house that looks like organic, others look orchestrated by provocators)

President allowing police and military to take strong action towards protesters x, x, x

Police and military have seen sweeping several neighborhoods in several cities x, x, x, x, x, x

Live streaming banned on Tiktok and Instagram

A journalist being questioned, presumably attacked and arrested by police during live streaming

Those things I listed are just the several examples that have been running viral, the exact situation is bigger than that. As of right now, the protest is still happening in several cities.

I hope this post can shed light on people outside my country about what's going on in Indonesia. There are not many Indonesian on this site, but we will continue to voice our concerns about our country.

Indonesia is currently going through a frightening situation, police brutality worsens everyday. Innocent people have died while many protesters are kidnapped/arrested

One dollar is at least around 16,000 rupiah (enough to buy a meal!) a few dollars can make such a difference so please consider donating too!

-> You can donate online delivery drivers (ojol) food/drinks by using grab app (Make sure to not buy anything that contains pork or alcohol! + Don't order anywhere near a police station or near a danger zone)

-> LBH helps with legal defense (especially for the people who were wrongfully arrested) 2nd edit: found a working link!

Indonesia, 2025

I'm not the type of person to initiate these kinda posts, but oh god it is horrifying out here and I felt the need to broadcast this here as I haven't seen any coverage about it on this platform.

What's happening? Protests, riots, racially induced violence mobs for some reason???, and a fuckton of police violence.

28th of August, Police have tried to hold off the protests by the parliamentary building, resulting in various deaths and injuring of protesters AND innocent bystanders. The incident that became the peak of the night was a motorcycle taxi driver/food delivery driver crossing the road getting hit— no, run over by a fully armed brimob vehicle. The delivery driver, Affan Kurniawan, aged 21 years old then, unfortunately passed away from the incident. The news of this unjust death enraged the masses, so the action intensified immediately.

Recently, the president has given the police force the go ahead to open fire to shut down crowds. They're armed, and given the go ahead to shoot down... anyone, essentially.

Now I'm not the best at formatting this stuff, so let me just list all the bullshit that's taken place that I know of for reference

-Police shooting streetlights off in the middle of the night at Kwitang, followed by shooting at the people on said streets at the time

-the use of armed brimob vehicles to ram through crowds and "shut down" protests

-setting off tear gas bullets/bombs at protest sites and public transport stations

-unexplained shootings

-some of my friends' friends have reported policemen standing around with firearms on the ready by their schools and where they live

-attacking a whole university dormitory by a protest site???

-kidnappings of various university students on site/attending protests

-threatening and arresting a JOURNALIST who was broadcasting live from a protest site

There's most definitely more I cannot name at the top of my head

It's gotten so bad that some schools have set online class back in motion or just put their students on holiday where the danger zones are.

Oh yeah here's the fun part. National television is forbidden from broadcasting anything about the ongoing protests and police violence, live streaming functions on Tiktok and Instagram have been shut down, and there has been speculation about the government trying to block off the internet entirely. The media is being SILENCED while all this is unraveling, the only source of information we're getting being from first hand witnesses and footage from social media. Come on now they arrested a JOURNALIST who was LIVE . A journalist!!! Is that not Mental?

Please feel free to add onto these if you're more educated/have more insight to share. This is ridiculous. The violence isn't even about the protests anymore I'm afraid.

Selamat siang

Please pray for us and help spread this.

Like I said,Indonesians are actively being silenced about this situation.they are even planning to cut off the internet and electricity so whenever you try to record what's going on you will hardly be able to see anything.

Peaceful Labour Demonstration Met with Violent Escalation by the Indonesian Government

Civilians in several cities in Indonesia have been protesting on the streets, in response to our House of Representatives insensitive and derogatory remarks amidst difficult economic climate.

It was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration led by laborers and university students, but our government choose to ignore and even violently escalating it with police brutality + shooting tear gas. What sparked a nationwide outrage was during 28 August protest in the evening, one of the armored police/soldier truck sped up intending to run over protestors and it struck over a Gojek driver (ride hailing driver, similar to Uber) that fell when crossing the road amidst the chaos. The truck did stop but decided to ram the gas and ran over him when he's trying to stand, with other protestors shouting for them to stop.

The Gojek driver's name is Affan Kurniawan. He's just 21 years old, the breadwinner of his family. He lived with seven other people in a cramped small rented room. He was not even participating in the demonstration, at the time of his death he was WORKING. He was trying to complete a food delivery order before he was killed.

This incident was documented clear as day with several videos from different povs. Here's the most prominent one.

In response to Affan's death, nationwide protests are held on the following day. (29 August)

The protests continued even today on 30th August and it keeps on escalating. The government is now trying to frame the protesters as violent anarchists, they're trying to use the same tactic as the '98 tragedy. They've been deploying provocators and intels to riot and burn public transport station, even going as far as raiding several (decoy) houses that belongs to members of the House of Representatives. They've also taken several hostages, reports of kidnapping as per 28 August is 400+.

They have been turning off electricity access in several parts of Jakarta and just greenlit snipers and soldiers to shoot protestors on the head with rubber bullets. There's already several victims.

They've also blocked access to TikTok live and even tried to erase/take down several of video proof of police brutality. Police are now sweeping several areas and civilians are alerting each other to be careful and to stay safe and not answer the door.

So yes. Please pray and check up on your friend that lives in Indonesia. I fear that there's going to be a military emergency implemented by our warcrime president. If possible please help save the video proofs because our government are cracking down to erase any proof of violence.

Here's more background information about the events that leads to the demonstration:

Video explanation from Al Jazeera that interviewed one of us:

I don't usually talk about local news but this is urgent. I'm sharing my friend's thread and their ko-fi for donations to help with victims and aid: pitikhong on kofi. I can verify that my friend is a trusted source, we know each other irl.

ACAB, every single one.

edit: my friend is switching to donating to LBH instead as YLBHI is closed for donations. They'll still be accepting donations and directing them to LBH but you can also donate directly to LBH's paypal here.

WHO DO WE CALL WHEN THE POLICE MURDERS!?

THEY PURPOSELY RAN OVER AN UNARMED, A BYPASSER 21 YEARS OLD ONLINE TAXI DRIVER WITH A MILITARY TRUCK.

The situation has escalated significantly, they are using tear gas to disperse crowds after they protested the death of Affan Kurniawan at the hands of the police. He was run over by a police truck while the protests were occuring.

What's worse is that people are using the commotion for their own agendas. There are women and children being kidnapped. There are people who are targeting certain races (Tionghoa or Chinese people). People falling under these categories are urged to not go outside, it is unsafe.

We are supposed to be banding together. Not targeting people who have nothing to do with this or destroying public infrastructure. We should be rallying against those who really needs to hear it.

The government is not doing anything. The police themselves are hurting the people they are supposed to be protecting.

(August 30 Update : A further three people have died being trapped in a fire.)

Wiki article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Indonesian_protests

(I've added some links in English for those who do not understand Indonesian)

I'll continue to update with more information as this goes on.

INTERNATIONAL MUTUALS WE NEED YOUR HELP!!

last night (28/8/2025) in indonesia during a protest, an ojol (motorcycle taxi) driver got ran over by a police truck that was trying to escape and was killed, and the police and the government are trying to silence us from speaking up about it.

we are trying to get international eyes on this, as local tv stations are not being allowed to report it. as usual, the indonesian government are trying to coax us into forgiving them with a bunch of disingenuous apology videos and a slap on the wrist for the perpetrators, but we will not let them go that easily this time.

and so to put pressure on them, we'd like international news stations to report on this. trying to get them to listen to us "normal" civilians will be a difficult and strenuous effort, but if we get CNN or something on this then that might be a quicker way to get them to back down.

if youve got twitter, please retweet this https://x.com/ezash/status/1961068893985800511 as it's one of the many video proof of the incident or this https://x.com/pporapippamm/status/1961070289829449770 as a concise summary of what happened, and maybe any other tweets u might see abt this issue. otherwise if you can, please help spread the message; even word of mouth might help.

edit: if u have time to watch a 4 minute video, this one is in english and explains what's been happening https://x.com/wannabewhisper/status/1961308260763406449

the driver who was murdered by the police is AFFAN KURNIAWAN and he was only 21 YEARS OLD; the breadwinner of his family. he wasn't even participating in the protest. he was delivering food.

there were many other victims and cases too, including forms of human right violations (medics in jakarta being sprayed by tear gas and an ambulance driver in solo getting beaten up) but so far this has been the biggest case, and we're trying to get the attention of international media to blow it up and show how fucked up the govt is here at this point.

[29/8/2025]

A while ago, the government dropped a news that the people of the parliament will receive a large sum of money support from the country, around 100 million rupiahs or roughly around 6000$, PER MONTH. While the people here are struggling to eat, teachers and lecturers, especially those teaching in rural parts of Indonesia ARE NOT PAID. Even if they are, they're barely reaching the minimum wage. All while the people of the parliament get paid a large sum of money for doing nothing and corrupting the country. These people are dancing and singing in the parliament house while people literally outside their places live crammed, barely making 180$ a month. And for Jakarta? That barely covers necessities.

A few days yesterday, angry citizens started moving. At first they swarmed and broke into the parliament house. Then a massive protest was held in front of the parliament house (mostly by college students). The people are mad. The police started spraying tear gas and high pressure water towards the crowd (classic move). Eventually, ojol drivers started joining the protest (think: uber, uber eats drivers that use cars and motorcycles). One person got killed by getting ran over by the police. ONE PERSON GOT KILLED BY GETTING RAN OVER BY THE POLICE, A 21 YEAR OLD OJOL DRIVER, PROBABLY A BREADWINNER IN HIS FAMILY. And a lot more victims of brutality and violence and missing people. It doesnt stop there as well, Karet station are getting shot with tear gas, where non protesters are trying to get on with life.