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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

www.yahoo.com

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 5d

Saw a New York Times headline that seemed to suggest that African countries were somehow particularly susceptible to the so called “Gen Z” protests. I’ve written a little about why this framing is disingenuous and also infantilising in various platforms. oecd-development-matters.org/2025/04/30/f...

From Kenya's 'Gen Z protests' to the world: Youth as a global constituency - Development Matters

Around the world, young people are turning to protest as electoral politics fails to address their grievances. So what do today's young people want – and are policy makers prepared to respond?

oecd-development-matters.org

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Anisa @ayashitetsuko.bsky.social · 14d

No honestly this is still the best photo of Indonesia I’ve ever seen

Like

The chaos

The details

The questions that arise

A post by USSfeed featuring award-winning photo by Sholihuddin of Jawa Post of a military truck carrying football fans. The truck fell over and some of the passengers are able to get off safely

The text:

A military truck carrying over 100 youths keels over under its heavy load. The passengers were supporters of local football club Persebaya, enjoying a free ride home and waving flags to celebrate their team's victory.
Most of the passengers escaped unharmed, but 12 wore hospitalized with minor injuries.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 13d

Want to read about how a presidential regime confronts democratic backsliding in a diverse and unequal society? Want to replace Latin (E Pluribus Unum) with Sanskrit (Bhinneka Tunggal Eka)? Check out these papers in the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 👇

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Introduction to the Special Section on Presidentialism and Democracy in Indonesia - Thomas B. Pepinsky, 2025

The three articles in this special section on presidentialism and democracy in Indonesia analyse the state of Indonesian democracy through a careful study of th...

journals.sagepub.com

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 12d

Indonesian government threatened to ban TikTok unless it handed over livestream data from August’s riots. Behind the batons and tear gas, a layered surveillance state has taken root in Indonesia: CCTV grids, facial recognition, commercial spyware etc medium.com/@michi.buehl...

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 15d

Appalachia, 1900. Things ancient and dead haunt the green hills. A young woman — cast out by strange tragedy — walks the road on her wooden leg, practicing witchery and settling spirits. (The hardest to settle might be her own.)

Digital copies of GHOST DAYS are $6! Grab one for spooky season!

Ghost Days ebook — ASHER ELBEIN

A short story collection about a wandering witch in 1900s Appalachia

www.asherelbein.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16d

I don’t really understand the people who think we shouldn’t situate the current moment in context of the last 25 years in American politics, including the actions of the three Democrats who were president during that time

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 26d

In 2015, reporter @saulelbein.bsky.social joined a crew of Peruvian river guides on a trip down the treacherous Marañón. What happened there has taken many years for him to tell — and it's one of the most beautiful and moving stories he's ever written.

It's Heat Death. Don't miss this one.

The River Kills When Angry

Three days down the canyon it began to feel like we were working our way down through the gullet of a great beast.

heat-death.ghost.io

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Fadhilah Primandari @dhilaprimandari.bsky.social · 27d

On top of eroding civil liberties, the Indonesian government has been employing a discursive strategy to delegitimise its critics' democratic agency. In my short piece published by the LSE SEA Centre's blog, I explore two of these discursive strategies: blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/09...

Denial of Democratic Agency as an Authoritarian Tactic: Reflections from Indonesia - LSE Southeast Asia Blog

The increasing presence of the military in civilian affairs, police brutality and erosion of civil liberties signify further movement towards autocracy in Indonesia. In addition, the Indonesian govern...

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 27d

New event
📆27th Sept
🕕6pm AEST

Melbourne Bergerak hold "Vigil for the Disappeared" In solidarity with Indonesian activists targeted, silenced, and disappeared under the Prabowo regime.
At the state library Victoria, Naarm / Melbourne

www.instagram.com/p/DO-boxLETUu/

Melbourne Bergerak hold "Vigil for the Disappeared" In solidarity with Indonesian activists targeted, silenced, and disappeared under the Prabowo regime.
At the state library Victoria, Naarm / Melbourne
Saturday 27 September 2025 6PM

After the mass protests of 25–31 August 2025, human rights groups (KontraS) reported at least 20 people missing.
- Two people remain missing as of 23 September 2025: Muhammad Farhan Hamid and Reno Syachputra Dewo; last seen at Police Mobile Brigade Corps Headquarters, Kwitang, Central Jakarta.
- Over 3,300 people have been arrested by the Indonesian Police.
- 1,042 wounded.
- 10 confirmed killed during those protests.
- As of 23 September 2025, 583 protesters remain in custody on charges including incitement, assaulting officers, and damaging public facilities, and some are even being prosecuted under the Emergency Law, a relic of the wartime dictatorship.
- The police cyber division hunts those who speak out.
- Books are confiscated by the Police Forces.
- At the elite level, Prabowo entrenches military rule, filling politics and law with military generals. The same institution brought General Soeharto to power after 1 October 1965 and carried out mass killings that took hundreds of thousands of lives. Its grip on power continues today.

‼️WE DEMAND‼️

1. Immediate release of political prisoners.
2. Truth and investigation into those who have gone missing.
3. Accountability for violence committed by state forces.
4. Recognition that protest is a human rights, not a crime.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 27d

Mines threaten coral haven.

Nickel mining threatens one of the world's most important marine biodiversity and coral hotspots in Indonesia, despite the government revoking several permits, a report warns
u.afp.com/SWgP

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AP美联社新闻摘要实时更新｜非官方 @apnewscn.nzcow.com · 26d

📢 Indonesia's government is facing calls to suspend President Prabowo Subianto’s multi-billion-dollar free meals program after thousands of students fell sick from food poisoning.

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Indonesia faces calls to halt free meals program as over 5,000 school children fall ill

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · Sep 21

Next up KontraS released their report on short-term enforced disappearance; detained without legal access, with their fate & whereabouts concealed by security forces during the recent protests in Indonesia.

kontras.org/laporan/they...
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Cover of report from the commission for the disappeared and victims of Violence (KontraS)

They Did Not Go Missing, They Were Forcibly Disappeared! : Mapping of Enforced Disappearances Within the Protests in 25-31 August 2025

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Matt Easton @matteaston.bsky.social · 29d

Happy to announce the sold-out Indonesian version of "We Have Tired of Violence" is now available in a 2nd printing from marjinkiri.id, local bookstores, and online shops. It's timely, as some protestors have begun bringing a copy to demonstrations since the first run came out last year.

A protestor holds up a copy of "Kami Sudah Lelah dengan Kekerasan" in the foreground; just behind is a barbed wire barrier and then a row of people in brown uniforms.

Someone holds up a copy of the book "Kami Sudah Lelah dengan Kekerasan" at the weekly Kamisan protests in Jakarta. In the background a speaker holds his fist in the air.

Someone holds up a copy of the book "Kami Sudah Lelah dengan Kekerasan" in the foreground. Behind it is a barrier with the words Polisi (Police) and a row of police officers in black berets.

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · Sep 20

New event!
📆29th Sept
🕗8pm Malaysia Time

Join KontraS, SUARAM, Solidarity Collective TH & Pusat Studi Hukum & Kebijakan for online workshop:

"Resisting Militarism and State Violence : Our Big Homework to Freedom and Democracy in Southeast Asia"

Reg:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Online workshop:
Resisting Militarism and State Violence : Our Big Homework to Freedom and Democracy in Southeast Asia

Speakers
Nadine Sherani (KontraS, Indonesia)
Amirah H. Amran (SUARAM, Malaysia)
Gee (Solidarity Collective, Thailand)

Moderator
Bugivia Maharani (PSHK, Indonesia)

Date: Monday, 29 September 2025
Time: 20.00 Malaysia Standard Time
Livestream via Zoom Cloud Meeting, YouTube KontraS, and Facebook ASEAN People Forum

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · Sep 20

KontraS report reveals 33 victims of short-term enforced disappearance; detained without legal access, with their fate & whereabouts concealed by security forces during the uprising in late August early Sept.

This isn’t new. It’s a recurring pattern

Report here:
kontras.org/laporan/they...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 20

Using popular media that channels the same ideas as revolutionary literature is infinitely more practical than trying to get people to read some obscure political tome. Meet people where they're at.

Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · Sep 19

This person is called Pissshitter because their takes are both piss and shit. Asking the average American to engage with “revolutionary leftists lit” is like trying to draw blood from a rock, just ain’t gonna happen. You meet people where they are, not where you want them to be in your imagination.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 20

something something political violence

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 19

Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work

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Dewi Azizah @rosfalianti.bsky.social · Sep 19

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Febriana Isnaini @febisnaini.com · Sep 15

Gift link: www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

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Abolisyonista @abolisyonista.bsky.social · Sep 15

{Emergency communications from Indonesia on the black scare, not mine}

A silent police operation against the anarchist network is underway ✌️✌️

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Dewi Azizah @rosfalianti.bsky.social · Sep 15

I think I've seen this film before. And I didn't like the ending~

Tempo.co @tempo-poster.bsky.social · Sep 15

Facts About Prabowo's Govt Achievements Video Played in Cinemas - https://en.tempo.co/read/2048947/facts-about-prabowos-govt-achievements-video-played-in-cinemas

Facts About Prabowo's Govt Achievements Video Played in Cinemas

A video featuring various claims about the achievements of Prabowo Subianto's government programs has been circulating widely on social media. The screening of the video in public entertainment venues has sparked public attention.

en.tempo.co

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · Sep 14

Onto other news: @tempo-poster.bsky.social reports that 100s of children are still detained in Indonesia after the recent protests. Report says that "During the arrest and interrogation, children experienced verbal and physical violence".
They should be freed NOW.
#FreeOurFriends
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Hundreds of Indonesian Children Still Detained by Police After August Demonstrations, Arrested Using Violence

KPAI reveals the arrests and interrogations of the children were carried out through physical and verbal violence by Indonesian Police.

en.tempo.co

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Sep 11

Ah someone beat me to it. I wanted to write a piece bout the use of fictitious symbols instead of national flags. My research (led by former student Vlada Trofimchuk) showed that political parties have more negative evaluations of national flags if they don't see the flag as reflecting their ingroup

Indonesia to Nepal: How anime One Piece’s ‘pirate flag’ has become symbol of protest

After becoming a protest symbol in Indonesia last month, the popular straw hat pirate flag from the anime ‘One Piece’ has now appeared at anti-government protests in Nepal. Many carried the flag to sh...

firstpost.com

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