CALL FOR SOLIDARITY 🗣️📢
🕯️A Vigil for the Disappeared🕯️
In solidarity with Indonesian activists targeted, silenced, and taken under the Prabowo Regime
📅 Saturday 27 September 2025
🕑 6PM
📍 State Library Victoria, NAARM
more info
🔗 https://bit.ly/VigilBergerak (link in bio)
- After the mass protests of 25–31 August 2025, human rights groups (KontraS) reported at least 20 people missing.
- Two people remain missing as of 23 September 2025: Muhammad Farhan Hamid and Reno Syachputra Dewo; last seen at Police Mobile Brigade Corps Headquarters, Kwitang, Central Jakarta.
- Over 3,300 people have been arrested by the Indonesian Police.
- 1,042 wounded.
- 10 confirmed killed during those protests.
- As of 23 September 2025, 583 protesters remain in custody on charges including incitement, assaulting officers, and damaging public facilities, and some are even being prosecuted under the Emergency Law, a relic of the wartime dictatorship.
- The police cyber division hunts those who speak out.
- Books are confiscated by the Police Forces.
- At the elite level, Prabowo entrenches military rule, filling politics and law with military generals. The same institution brought General Soeharto to power after 1 October 1965 and carried out mass killings that took hundreds of thousands of lives. Its grip on power continues today.
‼️WE DEMAND‼️
- Immediate release of political prisoners.
- Truth and investigation into those who have gone missing.
- Accountability for violence committed by state forces.
- Recognition that protest is a human rights, not a crime.
Dear comrades in Naarm, let’s stand together at the Vigil for the Disappeared. Thank you to everyone who stands up on solidarity with Melbourne Bergerak and endorses the vigil.
If you’d still like to endorse, please upload your organisation’s logo to endorse
🔗 https://bit.ly/WeEndorseVigilBergerak (link in bio)
DM @melbournebergerak on Instagram to send a solidarity message, and contact us if you would like to speak at the vigil.
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