Solidarity benefit gig for The Indonesian Anarchist Black Cross Palang Hitam,to help with legal aid after the August 2025 insurrection .
21 March The Birds Nest, 32 Deptford Church Street, SE8 4RZ
Start 8PM suggested donation 5 quid .
This text words is the back of the flyer for the solidarity benefit Concert gig :
Indonesia is an archipelago of cancerous exploitation which the UK is complicit in to the tune of 2.86 billion dollars. British Petroleum, has been devastating the West Papuan landscape for 20 years, paying the local army to murder and torture the indigenous resistance as they go,in order to obtain “natural gas”. The commodity the UK imports in largest quantities from Indonesia is Nickel. Nickel mines have razed Sulawesi forests, unleashing mass poisoning of water sources through its chemical processing.
This metal is particularly necessary for electric batteries the UK consumes for the plague of e-vehicles as part of its totalitarian ‘green’ transition. The urban centers of Indonesia are littered with gigantic slums of ‘surplus’ human material, excluded from the world economy. The desperate struggle for survival under this regime makes ideal conditions for recruitment to the modern slavery of the sweat-shops which manufacture and export Nike trainers.
The elites governing the state in Indonesia reward themselves with lavish corruption for their dutiful role as enforces of the demands of this global market. This year the parliamentary mafia voted themselves a significant wage increase triggering mass protests all across the country. In August 2025 an armored vehicle hunting one of these protests crushed a motorcycle delivery driver to death. Enough was enough.
The archipelago exploded in riotous uproar, burning and destroying every visible symbol of power in its way, spreading everywhere, uncontrollably. Just like in Nepal, Madagascar, Morocco, Iran, and many more, the dispossessed woke up in joyous collusion against the regimes which imprison them.
Since then the repressive vengeance in Indonesia has been relentless. “Anarchists” have been designated by judges and TV studios alike as the enemy of the moment. They have clearly been singled out not only due to their impassioned and uncompromising presence among their exploited brothers and sisters in the uprising, but also because of the continuity of their anti-political revolutionary struggle which has spanned self-organised resistance to land grabs to nocturnal assaults on banks and police outposts for years – action which has enriched the imagination of revolt in the territory.
Mass roundups are taking place, torture is widespread, many comrades are in prison, many have been driven into clandestinity. As far as the state is concerned, the entire anarchist movement is to pay the price for the arousal of wounded dignity which shook the normality of that plundered archipelago to its foundations.
The struggle continues. The Indonesian Anarchist Black Cross Palang Hitam, has called to comrades internationally for support in this dark moment of state terror. We find it necessary to respond, and also to make it known as much as we can, the nature and quality of the struggle for freedom which has not been extinguished, and which we can only contribute to by expanding the struggle against all forms of power wherever we are.
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