Sorry that there hasn't been any new art + streams and I haven't been online as much recently. Current events within my country have stunned me with what's going on. Indonesia isn't doing too well and is going through a crisis right now. It's been going on for at least 2 years now, but it started to spiral since early March of this year. In one of my previous journals, I've discussed about the whole TNI RUU thing and some of the shady stuff the current president, Prabowo, is doing with his unnecessary new governmental programs.
Indonesians from different political backgrounds come together to protest for better living wages, job opportunities while also fighting against corruption and police brutality within this country. It's been difficult to get hired at a job in this country for a lot of us for years now. Living costs increases isn't helping us. Especially with trying to find a position in a high-skilled job. A lot of Indonesians kept on protesting so that our voices can be heard. The politicians kept on ignoring us. Within the last 2 months, things have started to escalate. Protests turned into riots. Police beating and capturing their own people. Government buildings being robbed and set on fire. Massive censorship across the city. We are being silenced by the 1% all because the 99% wanted change for a better tomorrow. It comes into a part where 9 protesters killed, and at least thousands of people have been arrested all because of "affiliation" of the protesters without any evidence during the riots. People are getting ran over by armored vehicles and suffocated by expired tear gases and use rubber bullets throughout different location within the cities. Martial law has been declared. Many locations are now have protestors marching. One of them is 12 clicks away from my house. President Prabowo also announced a curfew on all protesters that they must have permits and all demonstrations must be over by 6 pm. *edit 15.03 pm: Bandung is now in the red zone. Students, civilians and security guards have been beaten and captured, and colleges have been overtaken by TNI/the national army. *edit 19.46 pm: According to a leak , the DPR/Indonesian council is planning to block all SIM operators [Simpati, XL, M3, etc] within the country within next week. Here's hoping everyone already installed Cloudflare, Proton or any other VPN on their devices.
