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"Do not bring up national security when the biggest threat to people’s freedom is their own government and its state apparatus. So whose security are you protecting with your justice system if you start arresting anyone exercising their rights to criticise the people whose salaries are paid by ordinary people’s taxes?
DM was charged under Article 48 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 32 paragraph (1), Article 51 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 35 of the ITE Law, and Article 264 of the new Criminal Code, over an alleged post about a protest call. The first two provisions exist to punish people who break into someone else’s electronic system and alter data that isn’t theirs, or forge a document to make it pass as authentic. Neither describes a social media post published under someone’s own name. Only Article 264 even applies to speech: broadcasting news that is uncertain, exaggerated, or incomplete, which the person knows or reasonably should know may cause unrest. It is close to the same provision Indonesia’s own Constitutional Court struck down in 2023 for being too vague to satisfy legal certainty, brought back almost word for word in the new Criminal Code regardless.
How would people know it’s fake news, rather than the state apparatus wanting to suppress dissent and dictate what counts as fact and what counts as fake? The law expects people to use their own critical thinking to avoid broadcasting or disseminating news that is uncertain, exaggerated, or incomplete, which the person knows or reasonably should know may cause unrest, while voicing any concern or criticism can be met with exactly this kind of response from the people whose salaries are paid by taxpayers.
Pretty rich, coming from a government whose president claimed Iran already has nuclear weapons with no source, met with a swift denial from Tehran, then let two people who commented on that same claim get arrested under the exact law built to punish an unverified claim. Parroting decades of Zionist lies costs him nothing; repeating it back costs everyone else their freedom.
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Dwifungsi ABRI, the doctrine that gives Indonesia’s military a permanent civilian governing role, is Cold War containment architecture, built with direct US backing under Suharto to guarantee a compliant, anti-communist, capital-friendly Indonesia for decades after 1965’s mass killings cleared the ground for it; that whole charade did not spring from nowhere. The muscle memory currently fencing Jakarta’s malls in anticipation of protests that officials insist aren’t coming was assembled, in large part, by the same imperial logic that disciplines populations everywhere it operates. Different stage, same script: discipline the population before the population organises, and call the discipline a routine.
Independence Day is the occasion, not the reason. The fencing is insurance, purchased in advance, against the possibility that ordinary Indonesians decide again that a government spending on lawmaker perks and military expansion while the rupiah sits near 18,000 to the dollar has forfeited its claim to their patience. Jakarta’s fences, Gaza’s Yellow Line, and Tehran’s file-sharing arrangement with Washington all run on the same premise: that people organising for survival are the emergency, and people extracting from them are the stability.
The people in this week’s roundup are absorbing extraction of their own, in rent, food, medicine, and the everyday cost of staying alive under systems built to make that expensive on purpose, wherever they are. Read through the requests, give what you can, and share what you can’t fund yourself. From each according to their capacity, to each according to their needs; that has never once needed a state’s permission."
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