The Jakarta Post
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsdemonstration
Jakarta 4 weeks ago
PREMIUM
Jakarta police plan to limit protest sites draws backlash
The Jakarta Police’s plan to prohibit public protests at the Hotel Indonesia Hotel traffic circle has drawn strong opposition from students and activists, who have described the move as “unlawful” and warned that it could further restrict freedom of expression.
Politics 4 weeks ago
PREMIUM
Students rally against ‘decaying freedom' as Indonesia turns 81
Despite the barricades, students remained defiant, with a protester on the front line shouting that Prabowo and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka had failed, followed by echoes from the crowd in the back.
Archipelago 2 months ago
Ten remain in detention after violent anti-government protest in Surabaya
As tensions escalated, some demonstrators threw bottles, stones and firecrackers, while others dismantled a metal barricade on the eastern side of the Grahadi State Building and hurled it into the government compound, according to police.
Politics 2 months ago
PREMIUM
Prabowo shrugs off criticism for key policies
President Prabowo Subianto has brushed aside mounting criticism of his administration, defending his push to improve economic equality and food security in his first direct response to growing protests against his costly flagship programs amid economic hardships.
Academia 2 months ago
PREMIUM
Student protests as the last civilian check against militarism, fiscal populism
Widespread student protests serve as Indonesia's last functional civilian check against a coopted parliament and structural decay. By demanding accountability for flagship populist programs, this growing movement directly challenges the systematic infiltration of militarism into civic governance and the erosion of constitutional fiscal boundaries.
Archipelago 2 months ago
PREMIUM
Students rally to urge restoring civilian supremacy, stopping 'wasteful' spending
Topping the demands made by students across the archipelago are to stop the free meals and rural cooperatives programs, restore the TNI to its original defense function and to stabilize the national currency.
Politics 2 months ago
PREMIUM
Student unions dissociate from BEM Bersatu after political ‘infiltration’ allegations
A rift seems to have appeared in the ongoing student movement against excessive budgetary spending and rising fuel prices after BEM Bersatu alleged that certain student unions may have been swayed by political influence, which elicited prompt denial from its peers as well as the PDI-P.
Politics 3 months ago
PREMIUM
Growing discontent with policymaking keeps students on streets
From fuel price hikes to multibillion-dollar government programs, a growing list of grievances has fueled recurring protests during President Prabowo Subianto’s first two years in office, highlighting widening public dissatisfaction with the administration’s policy direction.
Editor's Picks
Popular
- Much ado about asset forfeiture
- Mass poisonings cast doubt on free meals reforms
- Purbaya ousted after clash with Prabowo's ex-army colleague, sources say
- Children are no longer the priority, were they ever?
- Indonesia, China eye cooperation to boost 3 million homes program
- El Niño chokes Indonesia’s coal exports as rivers run shallow
- Suahasil seen to prioritize fiscal discipline, continuity
- Feeding, not poisoning
- Ferry accident revives Indonesia’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’ myth
- Sumatran elephants run out of room as fires spread
