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        "msgid": "nusron-wahid-speaks-out-on-ugm-discussion-disrupted-by-students-1781589192",
        "date": "2026-06-16 12:27:58",
        "title": "Nusron Wahid Speaks Out on UGM Discussion Disrupted by Students",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Nusron Wahid has condemned the disruption of a government dialogue at Gadjah Mada University by students, describing the action as undemocratic. The forum, which included officials discussing poverty alleviation and agriculture, was halted when protesters stormed the stage and later clashed with security. Student representatives stated the protest was a critique of government policies, including the free nutritious meal programme and village cooperatives, arguing officials were unfit to speak on Pancasila while suppressing public dissent.",
        "content": "<p>Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning\/National Land\nAgency (ATR\/BPN) Nusron Wahid has spoken out regarding an incident where\na discussion event at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) ended with students\nstorming the venue. Nusron explained that he had come together with the\nHead of the Poverty Alleviation Acceleration Agency Budiman Sudjatmiko\nand Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sudaryono to engage in direct\ndialogue with the academic community. \u201cWe came properly, there was a\ncomplete permit letter from the rectorate. We were ready to come there\nto dialogue with anyone, with the academic community, on any topic,\nbecause we from the government have prepared ourselves to be ready to be\nbullied, ready to be insulted in front of anyone, because that is the\nconsequence of holding office,\u201d Nusron said in a post on his personal\nInstagram account seen on Tuesday (16\/6\/2026). Nusron permitted his\nstatement about the UGM discussion to be quoted from his Instagram post.\nNusron said the discussion event was proceeding well until a number of\npeople, who he claimed were not ready to engage in dialogue, disrupted\nit. He deplored the incident. \u201cBut it turned out that tonight, fate had\nother plans. There was a group of people who are undemocratic, who\napparently were not ready for dialogue, not ready for democracy and not\nready to accept a dialogue of ideas, who prioritised imposing their will\nand prioritised violence, and for that we deeply regret it,\u201d Nusron\nsaid. \u201cA forum that should have been a good dialogue, as happens on\nother campuses. There was no motivation to castrate debate, but we were\nactually ready to be criticised. If indeed there was something wrong, we\nwere ready to correct it; if there was input, we would follow it up. But\nit turned out to be thwarted by that group of people,\u201d he continued.\nNusron then called on all parties to create a proper space for debate in\nimplementing democracy. He also affirmed his readiness to continue\nattending similar dialogues in the future. \u201cI think, let us uphold\ndemocracy in a civilised manner. Therefore, discussion spaces and spaces\nfor debate in any forum whatsoever must not be closed and must not be a\nmonologue by creating a single opinion from certain groups only. We are\nready to serve various invitations, if there are any, to match data and\narguments. But tonight we truly regret it, though we do not repent,\u201d he\nstated. It is known that a crowd of students stormed a discussion event\nfeaturing three state officials at the Joglo Gelanggang Inovasi dan\nKreativitas (GIK) UGM on Monday (15\/6) evening. The incident was also\nmarked by a chase. The action took place while the forum attended by\nHead of the Poverty Alleviation Acceleration Agency Budiman Sudjatmiko,\nMinister of ATR\/BPN Nusron Wahid, and Deputy Minister of Agriculture\nSudaryono was underway. Initially, the discussion event ran smoothly.\nHowever, shortly afterwards, a number of students climbed onto the stage\nand unfurled banners rejecting the speakers. The situation heated up\nuntil the discussion was halted and plastic cups were thrown. The three\nofficials were then evacuated, but hundreds of students blocked them\noutside the GIK UGM. Nusron Wahid and Sudaryono briefly engaged in\ndialogue with the crowd, but the talks again reached a deadlock. As the\ntwo left the location under escort, a shoving match occurred between\nstudents and security personnel. One representative of the UGM Student\nUnion (SEMA), Mesa, said that the action was a form of criticism against\nthe government. They assessed that as long as the government considers\ncriticism a disturbance, the officials are not fit to speak about\nPancasila. \u201cThey are not fit to talk about Pancasila while Indonesia\nstill silences the people\u2019s voice, as long as they consider criticism a\ndisturbance, as long as they continue to waste the people\u2019s money on\nuseless programmes, the MBG programme, Kopdes Merah Putih, and many\nthings happening now,\u201d Mesa said, as reported by detikJogja on Tuesday\n(16\/6).<\/p>",
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