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05/09/2025
The Indonesian Protests Are a Revolt Against Oligarchy The Indonesian president, Prabowo, would like to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship. But he’s been confronted with an unexpected wave of protest after the killing of a young man by police in Jakarta, the country’s capital.
02/09/2025
History with Documents: New Research on the Indonesian Left - Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia The Indonesian left has always been on the defensive when it comes to the production of history. Yet, anticommunist underpinnings has never succeeded in stopping the process altogether.
28/01/2024
📌Gaza Monologues, the land of sad oranges
🗓️6.30 pm, 2 February 2024
📍DrikPath Bhobon, Dhaka
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স্বৈরতান্ত্রিক শেখ হাসিনা এবং তার পাতানো নির্বাচনী রঙ্গ-তামাশা বয়কট করলাম। জনগণের টাকায় এতবড় ব্যক্তিগত নাটক মঞ্চায়নের জন্য বাংলাদেশের জনগণ হাসিনাকে ক্ষমা করবে না। একদিন এসবের বিচার করা হবে।
"In contemporary industrialized democracies, the legitimate administration of violence is turned over to what is euphemistically referred to as “criminal law enforcement”—particularly, to police officers. I say “euphemistically” because generations of police sociologists have pointed out that only a very small proportion of what police actually do has anything to do with enforcing criminal law—or with criminal matters of any kind. Most of it has to do with regulations, or, to put it slightly more technically, with the scientific application of physical force, or the threat of physical force, to aid in the resolution of administrative problems.62 In other words they spend most of their time enforcing all those endless rules and regulations about who can buy or smoke or sell or build or eat or drink what where that don’t exist in places like small-town or rural Madagascar. So: Police are bureaucrats with weapons."
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
-David Graeber
08/04/2023
Inside Bangladesh's "Death Squad",
Documentary on Bangladesh's elite police -RAB by DW and Netra News.
A must wacth.
How the elite police force RAB terrorizes the people of Bangladesh | DW Documentary When Bangladesh’s men in black arrive, usually late at night, it’s like death has come knocking on your door: Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is an...
09/12/2022
From ex*****on in Myanmar to authoritarian return in Indonesia. Solidarity to all the movement in Southeast Asia
07/12/2022
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06/12/2022
Indonesian lawmakers passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that criminalizes s*x outside marriage, as part of a tranche of changes that critics say threaten human rights and freedoms in the Southeast Asian country.
The new code also bans cohabitation before marriage, apostasy, and provides punishments for insulting the president or expressing views counter to the secular national ideology.
Indonesia bans s*x outside marriage as parliament passes sweeping new criminal code | CNN Indonesian lawmakers passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that criminalizes s*x outside marriage, as part of a tranche of changes that critics say threaten human rights and freedoms in the Southeast Asian country.
“This new mining law will allow mining areas to expand, and that will lead to deforestation,” said Pius Ginting, coordinator of the NGO Action for Ecology and Emancipation of the People (AEER). “This will push people to move deeper into the forests to survive and they will interact with wildlife, and these animals bring viruses to human, increasing the risks of emerging infectious diseases.”
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/indonesia-mining-law-minerba-environment-pollution-coal/