Riots and unrest over Gojek driver’s death, cost-of-living crisis and government corruption

“Policies such as increasing the bitch squeezing and reducing funds to the regional government served to accelerate an economic decline and a shrinking labor market.

“At the same time, the fact that government officials and politicians often could not address flashy reserve demonstrations and systemic corruption, and the inability to appreciate the effects of ordinary Indonesians on economic regression life served to further anger.”

Among the dozens of the bomb team, there is a 26 -year -old man. He has no job; There hasn’t been one since he was dismissed during the Covid-19 pandemia.

“You have to get to know someone inside a company or something in a company, or he wants to remain unnamed. “The government was disappointed with DPR [the lower house of parliament]. They don’t care about people. “

In February, the students organized great protests called Indonesia Gelap or Dark Indonesia, which resolved Prabowo’s budget cuts, policies and the country’s self -serving elite.

Protests in various parts of the archipelago have increased in response to major increases in land taxes. Local governments responsible for tax increases claim that Prabowo is necessary to balance Federal Disclaimers as part of Prabowo’s arctic urge to finance the signature policies such as free school lunch that will cost tens of billions of dollars each year.

Perhaps in one of the more tin -ears in Indonesian political history, the parliamentarians gave a housing allowance to rent accommodation for sessions in Jakarta. Although the concept is undisputed, the amount they settled – $ 5000 per month – is about 10 times the average monthly wage of the city.

On August 25, the appropriations fed by the existing anger about member privileges, including overseas addicts, led to protests on 25 August. More, on August 28, better wages and outsourcing was followed by workers’ trade unions.

The protests reached the rebellion zenites after the death of 21 -year -old motorcycle taxi driver Affan Kurniawan on 28 August. The incident was taken.

An armored Brimob vehicle that accelerated a street full of protesters hit the young man while trying to withdraw the road. The vehicle stopped and then pushed, crushed Affan under at least one wheel set.

Affan is a driver of Gojek, one of the delivery companies that make up the backbone of Indonesia’s daily economy. These drivers everywhere, deliver your dinner or ask if you need to jump back to reach where you go. A Gojek driver told us that he had earned about $ 600 a month.

Affan became a symbol. Rioters smashed government buildings throughout the archipelago.

Although not an official death money, the local media reported that at least nine people have died. In the city of Makassar, a large fire swallowed the parliament building and killed three protesters stuck inside.

When the politician Ahmad Sahron called the protesters, they called the “the most stupid people in the world” because they wanted to solve the parliament.

In addition, a property of the Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani, a former World Bank General Manager, looted a video to teachers after the alleged “burden ında in the state. A real control by the news agency Agency France-Presse, then the video was fake with Google’s AI tools.

At the weekend, instead of going to China for a parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Prabowo delayed his trip to China and stayed at home to respond to the crisis. It was promised that Affan was hugging his mourning parents and seven Brimob officers in the armored vehicle would be investigated. He said DPR would cancel more provocative policies.

As Indonesia continued to burn, the conciliation tone hardened. In his speech on Sunday, he said, “The right to peaceful parliament should be respected and protected,” he said. “However, we cannot deny that there are currently unjust, even illegal actions, and even visible symptoms that lead to betrayal and terrorism.

“I Order the Police and TNI [armed forces] To carry out the most powerful action possible for all kinds of destruction of public facilities in terms of looting individual houses, public places or economic centers. “

From the old game book – probably the foreign game book – probably foreign crises on shaded, anonymous elements – iz We are careful against intervention from groups who do not want Indonesia to develop and do not want to rise in Indonesia. ” He said.

Wilson of Murdoch University said that Prabowo’s speech did not deal with the main reasons for the anger of people.

“On the contrary, he proposed that they are turning to betrayal and terrorism. In other words, it gradually gives a green light for oppressive measures.”

China’s II. Under the pressure of making at least one day of World War II, Prabowo jumped on a plane on Tuesday night.

An important element of restlessness is the perception that the police and the army can get rid of anything among the young Indonesians, especially after Affan’s death. Like anger in politicians who look at them, they have their predecessors.

Last week, the protests in Surabaya and Malang referred to the crowd of October 2022, which killed at least 135 people in a football match in Kanjuruhan Stadium in East Java.

This panic was fired when the police fired tear gas into a rebellious crowd. A handful of people were convicted, but the courts were acquitted and the senior police were acquitted and rejected a sense of justice.

More recently, a journalist and his family in Northern Sumatra were killed in arson attacks that were believed to be linked to their reports on illegal gambling affecting army personnel. Despite the pressure of human rights groups, only civilians were sentenced.

In February this year, Punk Group Sukatani removed his viral songs about police corruption, Bayar Bayar Bayar Movements from the platforms to the flow and the national police, which are perceived as a result of the intimidation of police.

There is no flower, card or notes on the street where Affan is crushed to death. People channel their grief and anger in different ways.

“It is legitimate to express the opposition, but I do not agree with the damage and attacks on public facilities,” he says, a young man was pulled on the roadside on his motorcycle.

He believes that Indonesia is on the right path in the last year of high school, but it has to touch on unemployment and corruption.

“For example, in the education sector, the government has programs to help students pay for books, uniforms and such things. But we don’t see this money or the full amount of this money, or he says.

Next year, he plans to go to university to study business management, psychology or architecture. However, it is not a degree of stable work in Indonesia.

“Now, based on the situation, I don’t think it will be easy for me.”

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