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Corrupt and arrogant capitalist politicians hide behind deadly state violence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lance Ye, chinaworker.info and ISA<\/p>\n

Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto\u2019s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the protests have left 10 people dead, more than 1,000 injured and over 3,000 arrested in a vicious police and army crackdown against the demonstrations.<\/p>\n

Sparked by the privileges and corruption of the politicians, these protests are a continuation of the nationwide wave of \u2018Dark Indonesia\u2019 protests in February. When 21-year-old motorcycle taxi driver Affan Kurniawan was killed on 28 August by an armored police vehicle, the dam of public anger burst asunder, with parallels to the death of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in 2011. His death became the trigger for a revolutionary movement against dictatorship that spread across the Arab world during the following months.<\/p>\n

With the news of Affan Kurniawan\u2019s murder, demonstrations spread from the capital Jakarta to dozens of cities in at least 32 of Indonesia\u2019s 38 provinces, with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets. Indonesia is the world\u2019s fourth most populous country (285 million people) spanning 5,000 kilometers from east to west.<\/p>\n

The initial trigger was the decision on 15 August to give the 580 members of parliament, in addition to their already high salaries, a monthly \u201chousing allowance\u201d of 50 million rupiah (about US$3,000). This sum is equivalent to ten times the statutory minimum wage in Jakarta and more than 20 times the minimum wage in poor provinces. At a time of generalised austerity, with workers\u2019 spending power squeezed, this incident showed the gulf separating out-of-touch pro-capitalist politicians from the masses. The DPR (House of Representatives) and MPR (People\u2019s Consultative Assembly) are the \u201cleast trusted\u201d institutions in the country according to recent surveys.<\/p>\n

Austerity and tax increases<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tens of millions of Indonesian workers are bearing the brunt of president Prabowo Subianto\u2019s austerity measures, soaring taxes, factory closures and layoffs, and a cost-of-living crisis. There have been around 20,000 layoffs per month in the first half of this year. With similarities to China, 16 percent of young people aged 15-24 are unemployed, more than double the rate in Thailand and Vietnam. Due to a lack of real jobs, millions are forced into the unregulated informal sector or \u201cgig economy\u201d, without employment contracts. 56% of the country\u2019s workforce lack social security, medical and retirement cover.<\/p>\n

Faced with grinding economic insecurity and hardship, a growing number of Indonesians are dreaming of \u201cescape\u201d. The hashtag #KaburAjaDulu (\u201cLet\u2019s escape\u201d) garnered over 20 billion interactions in two months (primarily on X and TikTok), according to ABC (Australia). After the death of Affan Kurniawan, what began as a protest against \u201cparliamentary privilege\u201d escalated into a broader social uprising, targeting national and regional parliaments and politicians.<\/p>\n

Protesters set fire to regional parliament buildings in West Nusa Tenggara, Pekalongan city in Central Java and Cirebon city in West Java, according to Reuters, while others stormed and looted the homes of at least four of the most hated MPs. Several police stations were reportedly also looted and burned. Regional governments have borne the brunt of Prabowo\u2019s drastic budget cuts, with transfers from the national government slashed by around a quarter. This austerity has been passed on to the local population with tax increases and the cessation of various programs. Hence the anger specifically directed against these institutions.<\/p>\n

Concessions and repression, but mostly repression<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prabowo has attempted to quell the protest wave with a mix of token concessions and more repression. On August 31st, Prabowo announced that all parties had \u201cagreed\u201d to withdraw some parliamentary allowances. He also briefly announced that he would cancel his attendance at China\u2019s 3 September military parade to \u201cfocus on domestic affairs\u201d. Despite this, he went. The National Human Rights Commission, a nominally independent organ, vaguely acknowledged that police used excessive force during the operations on the 25 and 28 August.<\/p>\n

The government announced an investigation and the prosecution of the police officers involved. Prabowo made a high-profile visit to Affan Kurniawan\u2019s family, offering an apology and \u201ccompensation\u201d of 200 million rupiah (less than one month\u2019s salary for an MP, for the loss of a 21-year-old\u2019s life who was his family\u2019s main breadwinner).<\/p>\n

These attempts to blunt the mass anger were of course deeply hypocritical and people immediately saw through the ruse. Affan\u2019s father categorically stated, \u201cBillions of dollars won\u2019t bring my son back.\u201d Ultimately, only seven police officers were sentenced to 20 days of \u201cspecial detention\u201d \u2013 not prison, but detention at the police station, akin to being kept back after school. This mockery of justice further infuriated the public.<\/p>\n

The chairman of the All-Indonesia Student Council declared these concessions \u201cfar from enough.\u201d On 25 August, motorcyclists in Jakarta waved the flag of the Straw Hat Pirates from the manga series \u201cOne Piece\u201d as a symbol of resistance against oppression. While taking a half-step backwards, offering a few superficial concessions, Prabowo has doubled down on repression and likened the mass protests to \u201ctreason and terrorism.\u201d His trip to China was meant to send a message that the protests are now under control, but this remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Marxism is illegal<\/strong><\/p>\n

In last year\u2019s presidential election in the world\u2019s \u201cthird largest democracy\u201d, right-wing populist Prabowo won a landslide victory with 59% of the vote. But given his government\u2019s aggressive austerity policies, the country has already experienced multiple rounds of protests less than a year into his term, with some parallels to the situation in Argentina after Javier Milei came to power, but with a weaker workers\u2019 movement.<\/p>\n

Trade union membership is falling in Indonesia, at around 12% of the workforce today compared to 13% in 2017. The workers\u2019 movement was brutally suppressed under the military dictatorship of Suharto (1965-98) and today Marxism and Communism are still illegal (this is one reason why anarchism, which is not banned, has grown significantly).<\/p>\n

Since 1998, the so-called \u201cdemocratic order\u201d of Indonesian capitalism has failed to deliver democracy or even minimal economic security, instead enriching capitalist oligarchs while millions remain in poverty. The top 1% of Indonesians own 49% of the country\u2019s wealth and 60% of the land. The poorest 40% own just 1.4% of the wealth. The new government is using huge budget cuts to \u201crevive\u201d the economy, while attacking the few remaining welfare benefits, such as education and healthcare. Prabowo\u2019s deep austerity measures, \u201cPrabowonomics\u201d, hide behind some populist schemes such as his \u201cfree school lunch program\u201d. This is used to justify this year\u2019s 700 trillion rupiah in public budget cuts (including reducing the education budget by a quarter), but has also resulted in hundreds of food poisoning cases among schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

Prabowo is also diverting funds into another flagship policy, his new sovereign wealth fund Danatara, a shift to more \u2018state capitalist\u2019 interventions. Danatara\u2019s brief is to take over and transform the country\u2019s SOEs (state-owned enterprises) into profit-making machines. Like several other Southeast Asian economies, this is linked to ongoing power struggles with ethnic Chinese capitalists who by some accounts own more than 80% of Indonesia\u2019s biggest companies.<\/p>\n

US-trained war criminal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prabowo\u2019s dark past has deepened public distrust: He was a US-trained (Fort Bragg) special forces general, who married the dictator Suharto\u2019s daughter, and is accused of massacres in East Timor and the kidnapping and torture of anti-Suharto figures in 1998. Since taking office in November, he has shifted government and politics further to the right and authoritarianism.<\/p>\n

In addition to his austerity drive he is pursuing an aggressive militarization policy (\u201cbig nation, strong military\u201d), establishing 100 new army battalions (around 500 soldiers each) with plans for another 400. Prabowo\u2019s amendments to the National Military Law in March opened the door for active-duty military officers to hold key government positions, expanding the number of civilian agencies in which military personnel can serve from 10 to 14, including the medical sector for example. This gives the army top brass more control over government policy and more money-making opportunities, further eroding Indonesia\u2019s already fragile bourgeois democracy. This authoritarian drift was already advancing under Prabowo\u2019s predecessor Joko Widodo, but the pace may now be speeding up.<\/p>\n

Many on the Chinese internet are discussing and trying to follow the current wave of protests in Indonesia. While many are analyzing the causes and expressing sympathy and support for the protesters, others worry about a repeat of the tragedy of 1998, when the dying Suharto regime and Indonesia\u2019s army instigated anti-Chinese pogroms in a last-ditch attempt to derail the revolt against the dictatorship.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime repeatedly cites \u201cnon-interference in internal affairs\u201d as a cover to safeguard its capitalist and imperialist interests (China has US$70 billion USD of state-backed, and US$94 billions of private investments in Indonesia), rolling out the red carpet for blood-stained politicians \u2013 Prabowo being a prime example. The CCP\u2019s censorship of online discussion about the Indonesian massacres was intended both to conceal the memory of the 1989 crackdown in Beijing, and to maintain China\u2019s geopolitical and economic power in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n

A leaderless struggle?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unclear who, if anyone, is driving the protest movement that appears on its surface to have no core\u201d, noted a Reuters report. Such a phenomenon is increasingly common especially in Asia \u2013 from Hong Kong 2019, to Sri Lanka 2022 and Bangladesh 2024. These mass struggles have been dominated by largely unorganised or loosely-organised but heroic youth with support from grassroots workers \u2013 mostly without trade union organisations or with little real engagement. These movements have mostly taken aim against corrupt political elites or dynasties, who of course are the most obvious face of the system, but have not fully grasped the role and connection between the political facade \u2013 parliament and government \u2013 and the economic dictatorship of the capitalists and billionaires who are the real power in the system of capitalism.<\/p>\n

Recent scenes of young Indonesian protesters marching away with looted watches and even pets from the homes of corrupt politicians is reminiscent of the protesters who stormed the Sri Lankan president\u2019s palace in Colombo and occupied his swimming pool. The anger and short-lived sense of delivering \u201cjustice\u201d is understandable, but a movement for real change needs a clearer plan and must aim first at organising and then conquering real political power for the working class.<\/p>\n

Key union leaders in Indonesia are tied to right-wing parties like the president\u2019s. This is the case with Said Iqbal and the leadership of the KSP-PB (Labour Party) and union confederation KSPI. These union leaders can be pushed along by mass pressure to support strikes and protests, but only to slam on the brakes and sign rotten deals with the government at a later stage. The struggle for democratic unions and a new fighting leadership rooted in the working class and living on ordinary workers\u2019 wages and conditions is a crucial element of the struggle.<\/p>\n

The total failure of earlier promising attempts to create a mass left party, has created a huge vacuum. This is especially the case with the failure and collapse of the PRD (Partai Rakyat Demokratik), a workers\u2019 party formed during the final years of Suharto\u2019s dictatorship. Instead of fighting independently for workers\u2019 candidates, the PRD, misadvised by some \u201cleft theoreticians\u201d, adopted a \u201cstages\u201d theory to support the \u201cdemocratic bourgeois\u201d candidate Megawatti in the first \u201cfree\u201d elections (1999). This led to the PRD\u2019s eventual collapse, with several of its leading trade union profiles and former leaders opting for careers in the bourgeois establishment, abandoning the working class.<\/p>\n

Rather than incorrectly believe that \u201cno leadership\u201d is an asset, and focus wholly on action rather than political ideas, what is needed is real democratic organisation around a clear program to take the struggle forward.<\/p>\n

The current struggle has raised \u201c17 + 8\u201d demands (17 short-term and 8 long-term demands). Many of the demands are important and self-evident as a bottom line. These include the release of all detained protesters, return of troops to barracks, an independent investigation into Affan Kurniawan\u2019s and other victims\u2019 unlawful killings, and cancellation (the word used is \u201cfreeze\u201d) of the parliamentarians\u2019 pay increases and perks. As immediate minimum demands these are a beginning, but as a program to challenge a brutal anti-working class regime they are not enough. Other parts of the \u201c17 + 8\u201d demands are extremely vague such as the call for \u201creasonable wages to every workforce\u201d, \u201cfairer tax reform plan\u201d,\u00a0 and for the government to \u201copen dialogue with labor unions\u201d.<\/p>\n

Then there are other demands that contradict the real lived experience of the protesters and the mass of working people, such as the demand to \u201cannounce the commitment of political parties to side with the people during crisis\u201d \u2013 but the capitalist parties exist to \u201cside\u201d with their class, never with the people. This is why as all history has shown the working class needs its own party. Some parts of this mixture of \u201clong-term\u201d but very limited reform demands, with more concrete immediate demands, feel like the handiwork of NGOs and academia rather than coming from the struggles in the streets. Unfortunately, this program falls far short of what the current knife-edge situation requires.<\/p>\n

Democratic assemblies are needed to bring together the students, young workers, women workers and other constituent forces within the mass protests to decide a fighting strategy and demands. If the capitalists and their system remain in power then the corruption, autocratic politics, military control and police violence will not go away but rather reappear more viciously.<\/p>\n

As seen with the eruption of mass struggles in other countries, Prabowo will attempt to derail and exhaust the movement by\u00a0 promising \u2018X\u2019 and \u2018Y\u2019 but this will be temporary, to defuse the threat from a mass movement. These promises will always be broken.<\/p>\n

The working class cannot be satisfied with promises; a political alternative, workers\u2019 party and program is needed, demanding the fall of Prabowo. For elected representatives to live on a workers\u2019 salary with expenses publicly vetted and controlled, for a workers\u2019 and poor people\u2019s government, big wage increases and an end to outsourcing and precarious \u201cgig sector\u201d conditions. For public ownership and workers\u2019 democratic control of the big companies and banks. Build democratic action committees in all workplaces, schools and local neighbourhoods, and prepare for a general strike of all workers.<\/p>\n

This article in Indonesian<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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