Several Yogyakarta Campuses to Stage Demonstration This Afternoon with Six Demands

Student elements from various universities in Yogyakarta will return to the streets this afternoon, Monday 15 June 2026. The demonstration comes just a day after the Rakyat Memanggil movement held at the Gejayan intersection on Saturday 13 June 2026. In this protest, students are urging the administration of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka to immediately evaluate a number of state policies they consider incapable of solving the nation’s problems. The student elements staging the protest today include the Family of Students of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada (KM Fisipol UGM), as well as the Student Family Axis and the Consultation and Legal Aid Institute (LKBH) of Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) Yogyakarta. KM Fisipol UGM has chosen Taman Pintar Fisipol UGM as its rallying point, with a black dress code. The protest will also feature a free speech platform as a space for the public to voice and express their anxieties as a form of resistance against silencing. ‘It is time to unite our voices, convey our demands, and show our inability to remain silent in the face of the people’s suffering, because if injustice is allowed to continue, silence is a form of betrayal,’ said Noor Hanifah Arrasyid, Coordinator of the Fisipol UGM Student Assembly. The Fisipol UGM action carries the spirit of the Indonesian people’s livelihood, the hashtag #DaruratDemokrasi, the hashtag #RevolusiAtauTidakSamaSekali, and the hashtag #MatinyaNuraniPrabowoGibran. KM Fisipol UGM is bringing six main demands against the Prabowo-Gibran regime. First, they demand the government revoke the TNI and Polri Law and fully uphold civilian supremacy. Second, they demand the government immediately lower the prices of staple goods and fuel. Third, they demand the government halt the Free Nutritious Meals programme (MBG) and the Village Cooperatives Red and White programme (KDMP). Fourth, they urge the government to strengthen the rupiah immediately. Fifth, they urge the government to improve communication patterns between the state and its citizens to restore public trust. Sixth, they urge Universitas Gadjah Mada to take an official stance in favour of the people’s suffering. Meanwhile, UII student elements are concentrating their demonstration at the Yogyakarta Special Region Legislative Council (DPRD DIY) building. Alamsyah, a representative of the UII Student Family Axis, stated that the action was motivated by deep student anxiety over the current national leadership situation. ‘Today, the people are forced to live in uncertainty. The prices of basic necessities continue to squeeze, job opportunities are increasingly scarce, democratic space is being choked, while those in power are busy showcasing policies far removed from the people’s needs,’ he said. He added that the UII academic community is therefore taking to the streets, refusing to be a generation that merely watches as the constitution is sidelined and the people’s voice is treated as a disturbance. ‘The state was formed to serve the people, not to make the people objects of policy experiments that fail to address real problems,’ Alamsyah stated. He added that when instruments of criticism and law no longer side with the public interest, students bear a great moral responsibility to lead the movement for change in society. ‘When criticism is silenced, when the law loses its partiality, and when the interests of a few are heard more than the cries of the people, then students have a moral obligation to speak out,’ he said. ‘Because history is never written by those who choose to remain silent. Democracy does not die in a single night. Democracy dies when the people are afraid to speak and students lose the courage to fight.’