JAKARTA - Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian stated that public and student demonstrations have taken place at 107 locations across 32 provinces in Indonesia since August 25, 2025. The demonstrations were marred by riots in nine provinces.
"We have recorded 107 demonstration locations in 32 provinces since August 25, 2025," said Tito while leading an online inflation coordination meeting at the Ministry of Home Affairs office in Jakarta, broadcast live on the Ministry's YouTube channel on Tuesday, September 2.
In a presentation showing a map of the demonstration locations, several provinces were marked in red and yellow. Yellow, Tito explained, indicates that the demonstrations were proceeding peacefully, while red indicates that the demonstrations were violent.
"The red locations occurred in North Sumatra, Jakarta, West Java, Yogyakarta, Central Java, East Java, West Nusa Tenggara, South Sulawesi, and West Kalimantan, which we noted ended in riots with vandalism and arson," Tito explained.
Previously, two leaders of labor unions, the Confederation of All Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPSI) and the Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI), assessed that there were "stowaways" infiltrating the demonstrations in Jakarta last week, leading to riots.
KSPI President Said Iqbal stated that the group of rioters who burned public facilities was estimated to number around 100 people.
"It certainly feels like there are (stowaways), and my fellow workers have been cooperating with the local government. I have asked, I have ordered them to work with the local government to secure state assets. The things being burned are state assets, public money," Said said.
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