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        "id": 1799849,
        "msgid": "police-ask-students-to-protest-at-dpr-not-bundaran-hi-1781254494",
        "date": "2026-06-12 15:21:05",
        "title": "Police Ask Students to Protest at DPR, Not Bundaran HI",
        "author": "",
        "source": "TEMPO_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "Jakarta police have barred student protesters from holding a demonstration at the Bundaran HI roundabout, citing its status as a public and economic hub, and have instead directed them to alternative locations such as the Arjuna Wijaya statue or the Parliament complex. The students, part of a coalition including BEM UI, were planning a rally titled 'Menuju Indonesia Bangkrut' to voice demands including halting state budget waste and lowering staple prices. Police intercepted around 1,000 students en route to the roundabout, while other groups had already gathered at the site.",
        "content": "<p>The Jakarta Metropolitan Police (Polda Metro Jaya) has stressed that\nthe Bundaran Hotel Indonesia (HI) roundabout in Central Jakarta is not a\ndesignated location for public demonstrations. Consequently, police\nblocked a student alliance that planned to hold a protest titled \u2018Menuju\nIndonesia Bangkrut\u2019 (Towards Indonesia\u2019s Bankruptcy) at the site on\nFriday, 12 June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Public Relations for Polda Metro Jaya, Senior Commissioner\nBudi Hermanto, stated that Bundaran HI serves as a centre of public\nactivity and is a vital economic point in the capital. He said this\ncondition is the reason demonstrations cannot be held there. \u2018We have\ndetermined that the area around Bundaran HI is not a place for conveying\naspirations,\u2019 Budi said in a written statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Polda Metro Jaya requested the students to relocate their\nplanned action from Bundaran HI. Police offered several alternative\nlocations, such as the Arjuna Wijaya statue area (Patung Kuda) and the\nfront of the MPR\/DPR\/DPD building complex.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a mass of students from the University of Indonesia (UI)\nStudent Executive Board (BEM) was intercepted by security forces in the\nSemanggi area of Central Jakarta. They were heading to Bundaran HI to\njoin the demonstration on Friday afternoon. Approximately 1,000 UI\nstudents were scheduled to participate in the action. Since morning,\nthey had gathered in the FISIP UI parking lot in Depok before departing\nin several buses divided into multiple convoys.<\/p>\n<p>According to BEM UI Law Faculty Chairman Anandaku Dimas Rumi,\nhundreds of students travelled by bus towards Jakarta, but their journey\nwas obstructed after security forces carried out the interception. By\nFriday afternoon, a number of protest participants from various groups\nhad already been waiting at the Bundaran HI area. They consisted of\nstudents, workers, and groups of women who claimed to have been at the\nlocation since around 10.00 WIB.<\/p>\n<p>BEM UI Chairman Yatalathof Ma\u2019shum Imawan previously stated that the\naction would be joined by the UI-wide BEM alliance, comprising BEM UI\nand 15 faculty BEMs, BEM KM IPB, BEM PNJ, BEM Pancasila University, the\nGunadarma BEM Alliance, FMN Pusat, FMN UI, Pembebasan, and Semar UI.\n\u2018Several organisations and movement nodes that participated in the\nnational consolidation at the UI Campus yesterday will still confirm\ntheir attendance and the number of participants in tonight\u2019s meeting,\u2019\nYatalathof said.<\/p>\n<p>In the action, the students brought five main demands: stopping the\nwaste of the state budget (APBN), lowering the prices of staple goods\nand fuel, halting the Free Nutritious Meal Programme (MBG), cancelling\nthe construction of the Merah Putih Village Cooperatives, and ending\nmilitarism in the civilian sphere. Additionally, they urged President\nPrabowo to acknowledge the government\u2019s mistakes.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/police-ask-students-to-protest-at-dpr-not-bundaran-hi-1781254494",
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