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August 25, 2025 | 11:05 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A photojournalist from the National News Agency Antara, Bayu Pratama, reported being assaulted by constabulary officers portion covering the protestation adjacent the House of Representatives (DPR) and People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) analyzable successful Jakarta connected Monday, August 25, 2025.
Bayu said helium was struck respective times with a baton arsenic helium photographed constabulary dispersing demonstrators.
“Even though I was carrying 2 cameras and wearing my ID card,” Bayu told Antara connected Monday.
He explained that helium tried to artifact the blows with his hand, but the strikes ended up hitting his camera. The instrumentality was severely damaged, and Bayu sustained insignificant injuries. “The camera was breached from the hits, and my near manus is scratched,” helium said.
Bayu expressed regret implicit the repressive actions, saying that specified behaviour showed the police’s inability to separate betwixt journalists and protesters.
Since the morning, thousands of demonstrators had gathered successful beforehand of the DPR building. The protestation lasted into the evening earlier constabulary forcibly dispersed the crowd. Protesters aboriginal regrouped astatine the rear entranceway of the complex.
The rally was triggered by calls circulated anonymously connected societal media by a radical calling itself the “Indonesian People’s Revolution.” The radical urged the public, workers, farmers, and students to instrumentality to the streets, demanding investigations into alleged corruption involving the household of erstwhile President Joko Widodo and the impeachment of Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka.
“Let’s propulsion the DPR to transportation retired its relation arsenic a cheque connected the government,” 1 of the circulated messages read.
The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Jakarta powerfully condemned the battle connected Bayu. AJI Jakarta Chair Irsyan Hasyim criticized the constabulary for failing to support journalists successful the field.
“Despite being intelligibly identified arsenic a journalist, Bayu was beaten with a baton by police,” Irsyan said successful a written connection connected Monday.
According to AJI Jakarta, unit against journalists continues to hap frequently, including astatine the hands of instrumentality enforcement.
Between June 2024 and June 2025, the enactment recorded much than 20 reports of specified incidents, including during the May Day demonstrations successful 2025 and protests against revisions to the Indonesian National Army Law. Nationally, AJI documented 52 cases of unit against journalists up to June 2025.
“This police enactment intelligibly cannot beryllium tolerated,” Irsyan said, urging the constabulary to alteration their attack to handling demonstrations by prioritizing respect for quality rights and ending repressive measures.
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