September 24 2019 - Thousands of protesters clashed with police at the parliament building in Jakarta. They are protesting corruption, repression of activists and the oppression of west papuans, and proposed changes to the criminal code, which include penalties for sex outside marriage, insulting the president’s dignity, a four-year jail term for abortions in the absence of a medical emergency or rape, and a prison term for black magic. [video]/[video]
The laws they’re trying to pass infringes on many Indonesian citizens’ rights.
- Article 417 punishes extramarital sex (even between two consenting adults) by up to one year in jail or 10 million rupiah in fines.
- Article 419 states that couples who live together without being legally married could be sentenced to six months in prison or 10 million in fines.
- Article 414 Outlaws the ‘blatant’ displaying, offering, broadcasting, or showing how to obtain contraception to minors. Up to 1 million in fines. The latest draft prohibits anyone except “authorized personnel” from disseminating information about contraception to children, which activists say will curtail attempts to provide sexual education.
- Articles 415, 470, and 471 state that only doctors have the right to decide to perform an abortion. This conflicts with the 2009 Health Law, which says a woman can seek an abortion in “a medical emergency,” which could be interpreted to include health reasons or rape. A woman who aborted her pregnancy could be sentenced up to four years in prison. Anyone who helps a pregnant woman have an abortion could be sentenced up to five years in prison.
- Article 218, 219 criminalizes ‘attacks on the image’ of the president or vice president being spoken or shared on any media, punishable up to 4.5 years in prison or up to 200 million rupiah in fines.
- Article 240, 241 Bans the broadcasting, displaying, posting, or online distribution of writing or pictures that contain ‘insults agains the legitimate government’, punishable up to 4 years imprisonment or 500 million rupiah in fines.
- Article 432 Bans homeless and disabled people from being on the streets or other public places for ‘disturbance of public order’, with up to 1 million rupiah in fines.
- Article 432 also bans women from being out on the streets at night time for any reason, including work commute and night classes, with up to 1 million rupiah in fines.
This is getting out of hand.
Please help us spread awareness on this! A lot of my friends are out there on the streets, fighting the bills, getting tear gassed. I can’t be there with them, but I can at least do this.
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Source: [The Jakarta Post]
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“ September 20 2019 - Revolutionaries attacked the Turkish consulate in Geneva, Switzerland in solidarity with all the people threatened by Turkish fascism. [video]
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September 20 2019 - Revolutionaries attacked the Turkish consulate in Geneva, Switzerland in solidarity with all the people threatened by Turkish fascism. [video]
Solidarity with revolutionaries fighting in Kurdistan and Turkey against Erdogan’s fascist State and his Islamist auxiliaries.
Solidarity with the people of Rojava that are currently facing threats of invasion by the Turkish army and their jihadist auxiliaries.
Solidarity with all people facing repression, arbitrary detention in Turkey and in Turkish occupied Kurdistan.
Long live the Rojava revolution! Revenge for the martyrs! Solidarity means more than words!
- Commando Ş. Sarah Handelmann & Ş. Michael Panser
On this day, 12 August 2017, 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and dozens injured in a white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Heather was one of thousands of people protesting against a Unite the Right rally of neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan activists and other white nationalists and anti-Semites, when she was hit by a car driven at speed deliberately into the crowd by 20-year-old Nazi James Alex Fields Jr, who was pictured previously on the Unite the Right protest holding a shield emblazoned with the logo of Vanguard America, a far right group. Elsewhere in the city, another group of fascists attacked and viciously beat DeAndre Harris, a young African-American education worker, leaving him with spinal and other injuries. President Donald Trump described the neo-Nazis as “very fine people”. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1186799438171871/?type=3
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