ASN Reserve Component Holds Alert Roll Call at Defence Ministry Amid Planned Student Protests
The Ministry of Defence held an alert roll call for hundreds of Civil Servant Reserve Component personnel this morning, Friday, 12 June 2026. The alert roll call was conducted on the same day as a planned student demonstration.
The order for the alert roll call was contained in a letter issued by the National Reserve Agency of the Ministry of Defence, numbered B/752/VI/2026/BACADNAS. The document, dated 11 June 2026, was signed by the Secretary of the Ministry of Defence’s National Reserve Agency, Air Vice-Marshal Novlamirsyah.
“The officials listed in the attachment are requested to order the male Civil Servant Reserve Component personnel in their ministries to carry out the Alert Roll Call,” the document received by Tempo stated.
According to the letter, the alert roll call was held at the Ministry of Defence on Friday, 12 June 2026, at 07.00 WIB. The attachment to the document included a list of the number of Reserve Component civil servant personnel directed to attend the alert roll call. A total of 500 personnel from 42 ministries of the Red and White Cabinet were deployed.
Tempo attempted to confirm and seek clarification from the Ministry of Defence through the Head of the Defence Information Bureau of the Ministry of Defence Secretariat General, Brigadier General Rico Ricardo Sirait. However, as of the writing of this report, Rico had not provided any response.
This afternoon, several student alliances from universities in Jakarta and surrounding areas plan to stage protests. They have chosen different demonstration points with largely similar demands, namely urging the government to fix Indonesia’s deteriorating economic conditions.
One confirmed demonstration plan is the ‘Indonesia Bangkrut’ (Indonesia Bankrupt) Action spearheaded by the University of Indonesia Student Executive Board. Several student executive boards from various campuses and student movement organisations will join the action, which is being held in the Central Jakarta area.
University of Indonesia Student Executive Board Chair Yatalathof Ma’shum Imawan said that all 15 UI faculty student executive boards would participate. In addition, eight other campus student executive boards and movement organisations will take part.
These include the IPB University Student Family Executive Board, the Jakarta State Polytechnic Student Executive Board, the Pancasila University Student Executive Board, the Gunadarma Student Executive Board Alliance, the National Student Front Central Board, the UI National Student Front, Pembebasan, and the UI Progressive Student Union.
The protest participants have decided on five demands to be conveyed, primarily urging President Prabowo Subianto to halt the free nutritious meal programme and the Red and White village cooperatives project.
Furthermore, the students are demanding that Prabowo stop the waste of the state budget, lower the prices of basic necessities and fuel, and end militarism in civilian spaces. “Prabowo must also stop evading responsibility and admit the government’s mistakes,” Athof said in a statement on Wednesday, 10 June 2026.
In addition to UI students, students from Jakarta State University, under the UNJ Melawan (UNJ Fights Back) Alliance, will hold a demonstration on campus grounds this afternoon at 13.00 WIB. The long march route will start from Rawamangun Muka, pass the golf course, then turn right towards Pemuda.
“So we will go against the traffic. The stopping point will be at the UNJ Pemuda gate,” said Dimas Galih, Head of the Social and Political Department of the UNJ Faculty of Social Sciences and Law Student Executive Board, on Thursday, 11 June 2026.
Dimas said the action would be attended by the UNJ academic community. Not only students, but UNJ Sociology lecturer Ubedilah Badrun will also attend the action.
The participants decided to bring ten demands to the government. These include stabilising the rupiah exchange rate; lowering the prices of basic necessities and fuel; ensuring teacher welfare; allocating a full 20 per cent of the state budget to education; halting the free nutritious meal programme and the Red and White village cooperatives; and demanding the military return to barracks.
The alliance is also demanding that the government stop the criminalisation of young people and release all political prisoners; halt the state university legal entity scheme; realise free and democratic higher education; create an educational environment free from sexual violence; and stop national strategic projects that harm the environment.