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September 2, 2025 | 08:36 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Minister of Human Rights Natalius Pigai has announced the enactment of a peculiar squad to show and guarantee the extortion of quality rights for victims of unit during the bid of wide protests that began past week.
"To guarantee the extortion of quality rights, particularly the handling and fulfillment of the rights of the victims," Pigai stated successful a written connection connected Monday, September 1, 2025.
Pigai emphasized that the team’s enactment volition absorption connected fulfilling the rights of those who person been killed, injured, arrested, oregon detained. Specifically for those successful custody, helium noted that helium volition coordinate straight with instrumentality enforcement to guarantee their attraction adheres to cardinal human rights principles and standards.
Pigai besides urged authorities to debar the usage of excessive unit erstwhile managing the protests, stressing that each actions indispensable beryllium successful enactment with established quality rights guidelines.
"Adhere to quality rights principles and standards by avoiding the usage of excessive force," Pigai affirmed.
The protests, which commenced connected August 25, person tragically resulted successful the deaths of 10 radical arsenic of September 2, 2025. Initially, the demonstrations successful Jakarta criticized the important allowances for members of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR).
However, the decease of Affan Kurniawan, an online motorcycle taxi driver, connected August 28, who was tally implicit by a Police Mobile Brigade Corps (Brimob) vehicle, ignited wide nationalist sympathy and sparked protests successful different regions, with immoderate instances devolving into riots.
The National Commission connected Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has reported a full of 1,683 arrests by Jakarta constabulary during the demonstrations from August 25 to 31, 2025. This figure, recorded by Komnas HAM, differs from the Jakarta Metropolitan Police’s number of 1,240 arrests.
Komnas HAM arrived astatine its fig aft a nonstop reflection astatine the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Headquarters successful South Jakarta, conducted unneurotic with the Deputy Director of General Crime Investigation.
"In this meeting, it was obtained that the Jakarta Metropolitan Police had arrested and detained 1,683 participants of the wide enactment connected August 25, 28, 30, and 31, 2025," said Komnas HAM Chairperson Anis Hidayah successful a written connection connected Monday, September 1, 2025.
Nabiila Azzahra, Vedro Immanuel, and Intan Setiawanty contributed to this report.
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