Mass Arrests in JakartaAccording to the information currently available, 322 protesters were detained by the Jakarta Metropolitan Police (Polda Metro Jaya) in connection with the demonstration on 27-28 August 2026. Of those detained, 273 people have been released, while 49 people remain in custody. Of the 49 people still detained, 44 are adults and 5 are minors. The legal status of each detainee should be made transparent, including the grounds for detention, the charges brought against them, and their access to legal assistance and representation. At the same time, serious questions remain regarding the alleged involvement of mass organizations or groups seen wearing white headbands in the incident that resulted in the death of Bambang Setiyawan. If evidence indicates their involvement in violence, all parties implicated should be investigated through a transparent, independent, and impartial legal process. It is unacceptable for law enforcement to take harsh measures against protesters while other parties allegedly involved in violence are not subjected to equally serious investigation. The law must apply equally to everyone, regardless of political affiliation, organizational membership, clothing, social status, or position.
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2026/09/03/mass-arrests-in-jakarta/ KKE on AfD surge in Germany: Capitalist exploitation and imperialist rivalries fuel the far-right “The attack on workers’ and people’s rights by the bourgeois political forces — liberals, social democrats, the pseudo-‘left’ and others — the sharpening social contradictions in every country on the terrain of capitalist exploitation and imperialist rivalries, combined with the absence of a strong, class-oriented labour and communist movement, are the factors that, in Germany and elsewhere, are ‘pushing’ disappointed sections of the people into the nets of far-right and supposedly ‘anti-system’ populism. Moreover, under conditions of preparation for war, such forces become even more useful to the system, sowing the poison of racism and nationalism among workers and the peoples, so that the main culprit remains untouched: the dominant anti-people policy, the EU of capital and war, and the capitalist system itself.
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