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View all search resultsFor much of Indonesia's modern history, right from the moment when STOVIA, the country’s first medical school set up by the Dutch colonial government became the training ground for Indonesia’s nationalist leaders, up through the current day as students voice their opposition against government policies from campus halls, higher education institutions have always been an integral part of Indonesian politics.
Concerns are growing that political elites are trying to delegitimize student protests against President Prabowo Subianto's policies, with recent maneuvering threatening to undermine their credibility and shift focus away from the grievances that drove the demonstrations.
Twenty-five years since student movements helped bring about the fall of president Soeharto, the reputation of student movements as the vessel for the people’s aspirations still holds true. Despite their lofty reputation, however, the student movements of today have yet to affect similar change as their predecessors.
The Corruption Eradication Commission will name one of the rooms in its Anti-Corruption Learning Center after two protesters who died during the nationwide student rallies in late September over a controversial bill to revise the KPK Law.
(Indonesian Mothers Speak Out) staged a protest in front of the Jakarta Police headquarters on Sunday to demand transparency regarding the arrests of student protesters and to show solidarity with the mothers of the protesters.Emak-Emak Indonesia BersuaraA group of women calling themselves
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