Tired Cuttlefish

Pic 1: @barengwarga, an account on twt that specializes on making minute by minute reports on Indonesia's goings-on, made a tweet saying that their post was requested for takedown by Kemkomdigi (Ministry of Communications and Digital.)

Pic 2: The post in question. They reported about a person in Jatinegara, East Jakarta getting shot and beat up afterwards by the police.

PLEASE READ THIS

There has been a riot happening in Indonesia, a riot of never-before-heard scale.

It is happening because of the unfair raise gotten by the people who works for the government, but, there are also a few anomalies (i dont know what word is best to express what im trying to say as english isnt my first language) spreading misinformation against chinese-indonesian people (im gonna call them chindo for short). Saying that they are the root of this whole problem, and this act as a fuel to a flame that is this riot. This is not the first time something like this happened, in 1998 a riot also broke out that impacted a lot of chindos (my grandma, grandpa, mother, aunts, uncles, and other relatives were a victim of this) as they were antagonized. A lot of stores were robbed, we can't defend ourself. PLEASE DONT LET THAT BE REPEATED. SPREAD AWARENESS

Im gonna show you some picture as more proof of this cruelty.

[Translated from top to bottom]

[7:15 AM, 8/29/2025] Hello everyone, theres been a news spreading on twitter. There are now police acting as normal people to target chindo, kids, and elderly people as a distraction (from the riot) like in '98 tragedy where civilians are attacking other civilians

[7:15 AM, 8/29/2025] There's already a lot of child victims getting tear gas thrown by those police itself, not incoicidentally

Guys, I am near pademangan. They are attacking chindos.

[Translated from top to bottom]

Andre Insomnia1989: GO INTO THESE CHINDOS STORE, ROB THEM IN THE MORNING

Harr!: YOU CAN ROB STORES BUT ONLY THE CHINDOS ONE

zax pluto: ROB THEM SO THAT ITS NOT THE POOR THAT SUFFERS!!!!!!

Innocent lives who arent even protesters are killed. One was a gojek driver who only there to deliver food. The police car crushed him to death. It was intentional, there's proof of an officer saying, "just hit him" to the driver. All those disgusting pieces of trash said was "sorry".

What do you think people's lives are? Oh so pure officers? Who definitely could do no wrong because their job is """"to protect the civillians"'"""? Is this 21 year old innocent man's live worth just a "sorry"?

After the protest in 28 August 2025 caused a death of an innocent gojek worker (online delivery service driver) named Affan Kurniawan, a protest was planned the next day both enraged for the loss of a life and the inequalities we are facing. 29th of August 2025. They (police) are detaining university students without reason. People are disappearing, police are killing, and the house representatives went deaf. Hear us. ID: Video of instagram stories of the protest in UI. There are screenshots posted with information, and the end is a video on the (unnamed) OP's current situation

ID: First instagram story from the video. It shows a parked car with the captions "preperation to kidnap university students" and "insane, no?" With the added location of Stasiun UI-Margonda

ID: Second screenshot from the video. It shows an informative screenshot that (unnamed) OP shared. The information is as goes: Just now Alifa called, university students in Depok has been requested to leave. Police armoured vehicles have been spotted around a few times, said Alifa The trains have been stopped in UI. Can't go home by train Lots of cops around UI ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS GO HOME NOW. NO MORE ACTIVITIES AROUND UI The instagram post has a caption from op saying "This is so chaotic honestly.."

It is beyond unacceptable that this sort of thing happens while the average Indonesian can barely feed or house themselves with the constantly rising costs, police corruption and brutality, and a nation RUN BY A MAN DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE INDONESIAN OCCUPATIONS OF TIMOR LESTE AND PAPUA. Yeah, you read that right. Read it again, and tell me how a war criminal won a supposedly democratic election fair and square.

So, while your eyes are turned to the human rights violations of the Global North, do not forget that the Global South is also facing threats against democracy, blatant corruption, and an astounding cost of living crisis. If you're going to be loud about the US, I ask that you educate yourselves on the world's biggest archipelago and the governing body that rules it at present. We are NOT okay. Don't let the "digital nomad influencers" on social media make you think Bali is some paradise. It's not. And it's just one island out of MANY that form this country.

HUMAN RIGHTS ARE GLOBAL RIGHTS. SPEAK THE FUCK UP ABOUT INDONESIA.