2025 Indonesian Protests - Discontent, Economic Hardship and One Piece

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Public and student-led anti-government demonstrations are being held throughout several cities in Indonesia. They were launched in February 2025 by the All-Indonesian Students' Union, together with individual students unions. The riot police has been deployed, buildings have been burnt, a regional parliament building got lit on fire and somebody got ran over by the police. Some involved are using the Jolly Roger flag from the manga/anime One Piece as an unofficial symbol of the movement.

The causes of the protests can be described as follows:
  • Rising unemployment and economic hardship
  • Alleged democratic backsliding, including rising cases of crackdown against freedom of speech
  • Numerous reports of police brutality
  • High tax increases and increased allowances for council members
  • Death of Affan Kurniawan (motorcycle taxi driver who got ran over by a police vehicle during a labor demonstration)
  • Rejection of the transmigration program that moves Javanese residents to other islands
  • Supposed influence of former president Joko Widodo on Prabowo Subianto's (current President of Indonesia) government
  • Controversial policies of Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka (Vice President of Indonesia)

Will this lead anywhere or will a government crackdown put a stop to everything?



Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has called for calm after police ran over and killed a man during anti-gov't protests.

Demonstrators took to the streets of Jakarta after finding out lawmakers receive benefits totalling almost 20 times the average monthly salary.



Indonesian police fire tear gas as protesters hurl stones during a demonstration in Jakarta against lawmakers’ perks, including a 50 million rupiah housing allowance.

 
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Lots of angry people all over the world. I hope there is some positive change, but even if there isn't, it's at least cathartic.
 
I doubt that the protests are gonna lead to anything. Get ready for a somewhat autistic sperging about this insignificant country that almost has 80+% of the US's population. I have quite distant relatives living there that hosted me after I had a similar predicament somewhat akin to what the dear feeder experienced (country hopping due to close familial, financial, and eventually, mental turmoil) and oh man is the country such a fucking mess to be in (that's before the riots and covid). They're concerned that the whole country is going to be in anarchy, especially with the news that they're going to stage larger protests in the coming days.

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I mean, it's definitely one of the most significant boogaloo the whole country has experienced in a while but judging by how the whole country's run, it wouldn't lead anywhere since this is essentially just the "lower caste", "mass rebelling" against the "higher caste" that have all the resources available to them (police & military) to deal with it. Heck, their commander-in-chimp even has some controversies of his own when it comes to "dealing" with rioters.

As what's been said in the OP and its following posts, the protests boils down to the "lower caste" chimps chimping out to the "higher caste" (equivalent to senate and house representatives here) wanting to pass legislation or ruling that enables these "higher caste" to further appropriate the country's resources (rice and foodstuff allowances, a baseline pay that's 10-20 times higher than the average pay, and other benefits like their housing covered by governments, etc. ) in the expense of the "lower caste". Things didn't get this heated until some lower IQ (I know, shocking) policemen in a armoured car plows through a group of protesters killing one rideshare scooter driver (somewhat the Ubereats equivalent here). Then the boogaloo somewhat begins where the lower chimps take it out to the streets to burn anything they see that's connected to a "higher caste" such as luxury cars, fancy restaurants neighbouring governmental offices, jumbotrons (lol, really), banks, and the most hilarious of all, the "higher caste" houses.

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I mean look at what these "people" have looted from the "higher caste" houses, designer bags, model cars, furniture, and jewelry that's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that the middle class here wouldn't even dream of having, let alone some hut-dwelling turd world wagie.

So what's all this shit amount to then for the others caught in-between? Well, aside from going to the route of the bog standard boogaloo suppression (rubber bullets, maybe some army involvement, and social media blackouts), it would only amount to a slap on the wrist for the most "corrupt" parties "involved".

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Heck the "higher castes" (like this one from my earlier picture showing its possessions that's been looted) are reportedly running away to neighbouring countries in first, business, or private charter flights while waiting for all of this to die down.

It all boils down to usual turd world "conflict" resolution where you gotta have a scapegoat that "both sides" can agree to with the blamed party not having any powers (arms and numbers) to counteract or be in defense of it so a full boogaloo can begin. The thing with that is has happened before, but with the ethnic chinks that do fit that criteria. With most of the country consisting of low IQ, high time preference chimps that always want their entitled grubby hands into everything. If you have a large business, i.e. factories, financial institutions, etc. expect that to increase tenfold in the form of the "higher castes" that will demand, essentially extortion money off you or have their beneficiaries receive kickbacks to "operate" the said business since you're now dealing with snot-nosed chimps with military and/or police power. All of this just to keep your business from being "seized" or worse, raided and pillaged. This "culture" has been passed down by the former dictator (that the current commander-in-chimp have REALLY close ties to) that used to run that country back from the 60s to the late 90s that drove off many minorities (the said chinks, especially) out of the country. Neighbouring Malaysia which had similar ethnic tensions between these shoreniggers and chinks has managed to come out of that better, probably because they have a larger percentage number of chinks (20 ish% vs 3% at most) that could realistically "fight back" for representation. The chimping out has started discussions about how they going to be targeted again but I doubt it's going to be at the scale of what's happened in the past.

Anyways, because of these constant chimp outs, the boogaloo is losing traction by the day as social media support of them dwindles with the rest of the populace taking the brunt of it all by being in quasi-lockdown. There will be more pressure to keep all this under control rather than to let it boil off the top.

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Also, what sort of tranime vtumor loving sperg do you have to be to see all this shit and come to the conclusion of "please just save the vtumors". Pathetic. There SHOULDN'T BE ANY of these things setting foot here, vtumor or otherwise. We've already got enough turd world problems with the jeets as well as spics from down south.
 
very based, while I don’t think the entire country is gonna become anarchist it’s still good seeing the working class rising up against the bullshit
 
a baseline pay that's 10-20 times higher than the average pay
I’ve seen this cited and my only thought was “fuck that’s literally nothing.” I don’t even know what the multiplier is for Congress bs average pay (or just wealth in general) but it’s way above that. Enough that I can’t even estimate it off the top of my head. I mean, I just learned John Brennan is worth $100 million.
 
The only thing I can recall other than Sukarto is that this country is like the fourth or fifth most populated nation in the world, and most of them on a single island. What's going on with a majority of the world's population being from equatorial shitholes like Indonesia?
 
The only thing I can recall other than Sukarto is that this country is like the fourth or fifth most populated nation in the world, and most of them on a single island. What's going on with a majority of the world's population being from equatorial shitholes like Indonesia?
Very good environment for food production?
 
Very good environment for food production?
Yup. Just that alone made it to be one of the richest if not the richest colonial spoil on Earth. The Dutch became as rich as it was just because of them.

I’ve seen this cited and my only thought was “fuck that’s literally nothing.” I don’t even know what the multiplier is for Congress bs average pay (or just wealth in general) but it’s way above that. Enough that I can’t even estimate it off the top of my head. I mean, I just learned John Brennan is worth $100 million.
Taking Nancy Pelosi, for example, since everybody knows how notoriously rich she is; She has accumulated to an estimated ~170 million dollars with a salary mostly at 170K per year (which is only 2-3X of the mean income of California) when she represented California's 11th district (I doubt this is all her wealth, it's well maybe in the low to mid hundred millions).

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So with only a salary of 170K in around 20+ years of service before being a speaker of the house for around 8 where where she gets a bump to around 200K a year totalling 30 something years of "service", accumulating around 170 million dollars in total net worth makes out to around 30x on the annual salary multiplier.

Now, the average turd-er wagie in their capital earns around 60ish million IDR or about 4 grand a year. Their politicians wants around that much PER MONTH allocated to them besides the other benefits. Imagine if Nancy or Mike Johnson introduces a legislation that ups their monthly earnings to 10X what the average Joe earns YEARLY in California or Louisiana respectively. Nancy's yearly salary becomes 10 mil while Johnson's becomes 6. With this number, Nancy's net worth in the low-mid hundred mils would somewhat make sense with her ~30 years of "service" but her current net worth's only possible through her shady dealings and stock ventures. However, those turd-er politicians would earn the around corrupted Nancy's multiplier numbers by their official salary ALONE. So with this and on top of their wealth already earned through their current corrupted dealings, it makes sense as to why everyone there would chimp out.

Look at one of jewelry this turd-er politician had. I think it's a Patek Phillipe watch that's worth about 170 grand in the second hand market.

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Imagine you're a turd-er earning 4 grand a year, to save up just for that watch you'll need to work 40+ years. Boogaloo's justified IMO lol but like what I've elaborated before, it wouldn't amount to anything significant to these politicians.
 
Some involved are using the Jolly Roger flag from the manga/anime One Piece as an unofficial symbol of the movement.

For those confused its an anime about fighting the one-world-government which is run by demons

Pretty funny to see art imitate life

What are the chances that the Indonesian government decides to outright ban One Piece because of its use as a resistance symbol? During the Hong Kong Freedom protests, some people used the Resistance flag from Attack on Titan (I don't know what the actual name of it is), and some people think that is part of why China banned AoT. I don't remember if China enacted the AoT ban specifically as a response to the Hong Kong protests though, or if AoT was already banned beforehand. The ban itself is a soft one, which means that there's no official anime/manga release of it in China and no AoT merchandise is sold there, but people still can watch/read it through unofficial means and discuss it. The Chinese AoT fanbase in particular got really upset about how bad the ending was and how Eren's character got assassinated in the end, leading to things like this guy cosplaying as Eren:

 
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I mean look at what these "people" have looted from the "higher caste" houses, designer bags, model cars, furniture, and jewelry that's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that the middle class here wouldn't even dream of having, let alone some hut-dwelling turd world wagie.

So what's all this shit amount to then for the others caught in-between? Well, aside from going to the route of the bog standard boogaloo suppression (rubber bullets, maybe some army involvement, and social media blackouts), it would only amount to a slap on the wrist for the most "corrupt" parties "involved"
People in the USA forget just how rich Americans are

A model F1 car like that, or maybe a bit smaller, is very common for a US teenage F1 fan to own.

The Labubu dolls are are retardedly common here.


Meanwhile in the 3rd world only corrupt government ministers and business tycoons have that
 
I mean look at what these "people" have looted from the "higher caste" houses, designer bags, model cars, furniture, and jewelry that's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that the middle class here wouldn't even dream of having, let alone some hut-dwelling turd world wagie.
Further context for this picture, this was from one of the parliament members house that got looted, specifically Ahmad Sahroni. He made a retarded remark about people of "lower caste" being "world class retard" for demanding parliament to be disbanded. Of course they did not take that kindly.

There should be videos of the looting before the government bans livestreaming of every sort. I will look for a good one, but in a meantime, the Intel of the country is hunting down every looter.

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TRANSLATION:
"the info said that he's getting chased by Intel"
"(Image) Already got the entire dox"

> "Are you serious?"

"yeah this is from my father haha"

> "The fuck, that was really fast"

"(Full dox, including name, Social number, address, marital status, religion, etc)"

Note that the kid is 17

I will try my best to provide the thread with Indonesia's side of media, since there is a lot that doesn't get covered by the "outside" media due to the censorship (started since 29th August Night / 28th August American due to escalating police brutality).

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He made a retarded remark about people of "lower caste" being "world class retard" for demanding parliament to be disbanded.
I am not sure if this is right but I think his diploma, transcript or whatever indonesians use for their higher-ed records shows that his average CGPA was 6.8/10 which is laughably low for someone who's in that kind of position. Goes to show what kind of stock or breed these people are.

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Yeah, even this is stolen from 'em, not like it's really worth anything lol.

The Labubu dolls are are retardedly common here.
I think that's just added there for comedic purposes but yeah, the average turd-er there wouldn't be able to afford anything from that picture whereas most Americans would be able to; but other items, like the Richard Mille and Patek watches that's worth six figures or more? It's just retarded that those snot-nosed low-IQ chimps are able to afford that crap being what they are.
 
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I am not sure if this is right but I think his diploma, transcript or whatever indonesians use for their higher-ed records shows that his average CGPA was 6.8/10 which is laughably low for someone who in that kind of position. Goes to show what kind of stock or breed these people are.


I think that's just added there for comedic purposes but yeah, the average turd-er there wouldn't be able to afford anything from that picture whereas most Americans would be able to; but other items, like the Richard Mille and Patek watches that's worth six figures or more? It's just retarded that those snot-nosed low-IQ chimps are able to afford that crap being what they are.
You are correct about the diploma. It was his Middle High School (SMP) certificate for almamater 1993-1994. It is laughably bad considering the passing grade in Indonesia was ~ 6 (in most places, 7.5)

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This is a society that runs on prestige. They like expensive things, Labubu was just one of them. Him having a big ass labubu just imply that he has a lot of expendable 'haram' money.
 
This is a society that runs on prestige. They like expensive things, Labubu was just one of them. Him having a big ass labubu just imply that he has a lot of expendable 'haram' money.
Yeah well considering that I am not paying taxes to them, I really couldn't care less. What I do find entertaining is the chimp out that the populace are doing to these politicians that forced them to desperately run away to neighbouring countries like rats, seeing their "belongings" or assets taken from them by an angry mob, and the usual turd world rioting antics like area denials, total destruction of public infrastructure, combined with the burning and looting of businesses that have nothing to do with any of the involved parties. All of this has been happening in such a way that matches the "restrained savagery" I have experienced in my few years living there. I had so many of my peers raving about Bali and this country as a hidden "gem" outside of the usual destinations like Thailand, Vietnam or the Phillipines. Their blank-slated, libtarded, digital hippy-selves couldn't imagine the populace being as savage they've shown themselves here. Now most have ran back or went to other turd world shitholes down south of the border for better safety and stability, lol. Some people just never learn.
 
Indonesians just get up one day and start killing. The last time it happened on a large scale was 1965


some islands, including Bali, lost a fifth of their population. People just got up and slaughtered one out of every five of their neighbors. The wiki is interested in placing blame on rightwing elements "fanning the flames" but they're just like this.
 
Indonesians just get up one day and start killing. The last time it happened on a large scale was 1965


some islands, including Bali, lost a fifth of their population. People just got up and slaughtered one out of every five of their neighbors. The wiki is interested in placing blame on rightwing elements "fanning the flames" but they're just like this.
Also Indonesia has the biggest muslim population in one country. Makes you think
 
Also Indonesia has the biggest muslim population in one country. Makes you think

until very recently it's the biggest moderatest muslim population, and even now that they're getting "more observant," they really just like starting modest workout outfit companies and being stricter about prayer

this is a racial thing with them, the Balinese are Hindus and they killed so many people the rivers ran red.
 
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