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View all search resultsThe force behind the Aug. 22 uprising was not only activists or civil society, but also students, intellectuals and professionals who had been silent and ignorant of the legal, ethical and constitutional violations committed by Jokowi and the political parties supporting him.
A spokesperson for the South Jakarta District Court said the three documents were issued on Aug. 20, the day the Constitutional Court upheld the candidate age requirements to run in local elections, which effectively barred Kaesang from running in the race.
The activists, who included poet Goenawan Mohammad, anti-graft campaigner Zainal Arifin Muchtar, playwright Agus Noor, political commentator Ikrar Nusa Bakti, actor Wanda Hamidah and the widow of Muslim intellectual Nurcholish Madjid Omie Komariah, led a delegation of pro-democracy campaigners to give moral support to court justices, who are currently in a legal standoff against lawmakers at the House of Representatives who wish to annul its recent ruling.
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