Contributions from Eat (Reyhard Rumbayan) and a video: ‘From the Carcass of a Rotting World’ with english subtitlles for the solidarity info night 24th of March in south London, UK, about the repression after the uprising across the Indonesian archipelago.
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I am a detainee in what is being called the “Chaos Star” case. I was
arrested in Makassar on September 23rd, 2025, by West Java Regional Police, along with dozens of counterterrorism units from Densus 88.
I have been accused of being the mastermind behind the spontaneous uprisings that took place between August and September across several cities in Indonesia, particularly Jakarta and Bandung. The authorities also accuse me of inciting acts of vandalism, and of orchestrating a bombing at a police post in West Java in December 2024.
When I was arrested, I was interrogated and tortured throughout the night. They tried to force access to my personal email and questioned me about my friends and their alleged involvement. When I refused to cooperate and chose to remain silent, the officers wrapped a plastic bag over my head to suffocate me, and beat me.
After I was transferred to the West Java Police headquarters, they
deliberately tried to isolate me with a state-appointed lawyer so they could claim a legal basis to continue interrogating me, even though I insisted on my right to remain silent.
I believe this arrest is highly political. It serves to protect their
image after last year’s unrest, by creating a scapegoat for the
fragility of their political system. The events of last year showed that
ordinary people can disrupt the state’s control, even if only for a few
days.
I cannot deny that the rapid spread of information through technology played a major role. Without platforms like YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, or TikTok, such spontaneous uprisings would have been much harder to organize. But this is also the contradiction: the same technology enables authorities to quickly track, identify, and arrest those involved. Through informants and social media activity they build their narrative, accusing anarchists, especially so-called the egoist and nihilist circle.
They pressured me to falsely implicate my friends using fabricated
evidence and testimony but i refused to cooperate.
For the destruction of techno industrial Civilization
Panjang umur anarki (Long live anarchy)
eat