Student Representatives Meet with House Leadership Amid Protests

Leaders of the House of Representatives (DPR) held a meeting with several student mass representatives at the DPR Building in Central Jakarta on Friday, 19 June 2026. Various student groups had earlier staged a demonstration in front of the DPR Building that afternoon. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad. Also present were Chairman of Commission III Habiburokhman, Deputy Chairman of Commission III Rano Alfath, and Chairman of the Council’s Honour Court (MKD) Nazaruddin Dek Gam. The discussion was still underway at the time of reporting. Earlier, thousands of students from Trisakti University and Esa Unggul demonstrated in front of the DPR Building on Jalan Gatot Subroto, Central Jakarta, on Friday afternoon, 19 June 2026. They arrived at the DPR complex following a crowd from the Islamic Students Association (HMI) and Mercubuana University, who had arrived earlier. Trisakti University’s Minister of Presidential and Foreign Affairs, Arief Rizquna, explained that the demonstration was not a spontaneous action but the result of consolidation and preparation carried out over the past few days. ‘We have been preparing since about two days ago, from consolidation, inventorying issues, to how the accumulation of this movement and anger can bear fruit as a movement,’ Arief said when met before the protest. During the action, the students carried three main demands. First, national economic and political recovery. Second, the eradication of incompetence among state officials. Third, the restoration of civilian supremacy. He assessed that the various problems occurring in Indonesia today cannot be resolved partially. Therefore, the demands were classified into these three most urgent major issues.