When
Where
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston St
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
Why
CALL FOR SOLIDARITY*
A Vigil for the Disappeared_
In solidarity with Indonesian activists targeted, silenced, and taken under the Prabowo Regime*
Saturday 27 September 2025*
*6PM*
State Library Victoria, NAARM_
more info*
* 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.
Dear comrades in Naarm, let's stand together at the Vigil for the Disappeared.