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, by Perempuan Mahardhika
Dozens of organisations united in the Indonesian Women’s Alliance (API) took to the streets to commemorate International Workers’ Day on Thursday, 1 May 2025. The theme of this action was “Reject the Government’s False Solutions, Achieve Real Welfare for Workers, Women, and the People.” The (…)
, by Kontras (ID)
Every May, the public is trapped in the romanticism of the 1998 reformasi (reform) movement – a moment that is considered as a milestone in the reform of the political and legal system after the resignation of Suharto from the New Order’s reins of power. The euphoria of Suharto’s resignation (…)
, by KPRI
What Indonesia’s maintrade unions did by centring this year’s May Day action as a platform for President Prabowo was wrong, and a betrayal of the workers themselves. Distorting May Day as a momentum of resistance into a day for workers to dig their own graves.
Sketch by Henk Ngantung of May (…)
, by DE JONG Alex
Indonesian communists played a crucial role in developing national consciousness among workers and peasants, against Dutch colonial rule. After the bloody repression of the Indonesian left in the 1960s, Suharto’s regime wrote the left out of the history books.
Review of Communication against (…)
, by SURYA Annisa Nurul Hidayah
Journalists stand at the forefront in voicing truth and serving as watchdogs of power. In a democratic system, the existence of a free and independent press is the lifeblood that sustains transparency, accountability, and public participation. Yet behind this crucial role, many journalists, (…)
, by MOTE Linda
The mining company PT Freeport Indonesia lies at the heart of oppression, dispossession, kidnapping, murder, marginalisation, exploitation, and impoverishment – all occurring atop natural wealth rightfully belonging to the Papuan people themselves. PT. Freeport Indonesia must be shut down. (…)
, by MOTE Linda
In our family’s economic life, we are facing great threats due to the National Strategic Project (PSN). Our main livelihoods have been completely displaced without a trace. “How can we plant cassava, taro, petatas, bananas, vegetables, fruits, and sago seeds if the forest is cleared?” complained (…)
, by HAJID Silvano, NG Kelly
Indonesia’s parliament has passed controversial changes to legislation that will allow its military a bigger role in government.
Video: Indonesian protesters clash with police outside parliament
Critics warn that the move could return Indonesia to the dark days of Suharto’s military (…)
, by LAMB Kate
Activists in world’s third-largest democracy warn the legal changes signal a return to military dominance in civilian affairs that characterised Suharto years
Indonesia’s law minister has denied the law change was a return to the military dominance that characterised the Suharto dictatorship, (…)
, by Indonesian Women’s Alliance (API)
Today, March 20, 2025, the House of Representatives have passed the Revision of Law Number 34 of 2004 concerning the Indonesian National Army (TNI) which was done in a hurry, not participatory and closed.
The Indonesian Women’s Alliance states that:
1. The Indonesian Women’s Alliance (API) (…)
, by BUTLER Gavin
An Indonesian TikToker has been sentenced to almost three years in prison after reportedly ’talking’ to a picture of Jesus on her phone and telling him to get a haircut.
Human rights groups have condemned the ruling against Ratu Thalisa (pictured). Anugrah Rija Nasution/Tribun-Medan.com (…)
, by ULIM Aida
Aida Ulim, Jayapura — The Women’s Coalition for the Defence of Human Rights in the Land of Papua held a silent action at the Cenderawasih University Monument in Abepura, Jayapura city, Papua province, on Maret 8. The action was held to commemorate International Women’s Day (IWD) and took up the (…)
, by Indonesian Women’s Alliance (API)
The Indonesian Women’s Alliance (API), comprising more than 30 organisations including women’s groups, workers, people with disabilities, students, LGBTIQ+, journalists, human rights defenders and other pro-democracy groups, staged a Protest Action in response and challenge to the Prabowo-Gibran (…)
, by BALOWSKI James, KARUNIANIDI Riang, NEGORO Dipo
The first one hundred days of the administration of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has already given us a picture of how this regime will run in the future. Prabowo has managed to repeat former president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s success in consolidating the (…)
, by Amnesty International Indonesia
The House of Representatives (DPR) soon plans to deliberate revisions to Law Number 34/2004 on the Indonesian Military (UU TNI). This move was taken after President Prabowo Subianto sent a presidential letter (Surpres) to the DPR giving the go ahead for the deliberations. In the draft obtained (…)
, by DarkIndonesia
Indonesia is currently entering a dark chapter in its history, where citizens are forced to bear an increasingly heavy burden of injustice. The Red and White government Cabinet [named after the colours of Indonesia’s flag], led by President Prabowo Subianto and VP Gibran Rakabuming Raka [son of (…)
, by HALID Disya
Capitalism continues to demonstrate its cruelty in treating human beings. Workers, who should be treated fairly and protected as humans, are instead viewed merely as objects from whom labour and time can be squeezed solely for profit. Moreover, these profits are only enjoyed by the capitalists (…)
, by Amnesty International Indonesia, JUBI
Jayapura — The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organisation or TPNPB-OPM has announced that all schools in Papua, especially in armed conflict areas, should go on strike for as long as the Indonesian Military (TNI) and Indonesian Police (Polri) use them as military posts.
The (…)
, by CNN Indonesia
Jakarta — The All Indonesia Student Executive Council (BEM SI) is holding a marathon of simultaneous actions in different regions of Indonesia from on Monday February 17 through to Wednesday February 19. The theme being taken up at the demonstrations is “Dark Indonesia” (Indonesia Gelap).
In (…)
IndustriALL Global Union Indonesia affiliates collectively calls on the Indonesian President, Prabowo Subianto, to replace the controversial Omnibus Law with a worker-friendly labour law.
The Indonesian Constitutional Court accepted 21 of 71 petition points from unions last November and (…)
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