Solidarity Statement of the Persaudaraan Pekerja Anarko Sindikalis (PPAS) on the People’s Resistance August – September 2025
September 5, 2025
This solidarity statement we dedicate to those murdered by the State: Affan Kurniawan, Andika Lutfi Falah, Iko Juliant Junior, Muhammad Akbar Basri, Rheza Sendy Pratama, Rusdamdiansyah, Saiful Akbar, Sarina Wati, Septinus Sesa, and Sumari. Eternal as names, never reduced to mere numbers.
The illusion of people’s representation through parliament has collapsed. The DPR, with its reckless hands, endlessly forges policies that crush the people while deepening the abyss of social inequality. As more and more of us are condemned to live under suffering and exploitation by State-capitalism, the DPR reveals its true character as parasites — leeching off the sweat of the people, paying themselves obscene salaries with our taxes, sums unimaginable to the vast majority.
The police, too, have unmasked themselves as nothing more than the guard dogs of the ruling elites and the State, answering the people’s righteous anger with sheer brutality. The murder of online motorbike driver Affan Kurniawan on August 28, 2025 — a spark thrown onto the tinderbox of fury long ignited by the State — was met not with justice, but with batons, fists, tear gas, and live bullets, leaving bodies dead and broken within days.
The deployment of police and military, armed with their arsenal of weapons and the violence that comes with them, further entrenches State fascist repression. At the same time, the State seeks to monopolize “truth” — crushing press freedom, restricting social media that spreads news of the people’s anger and the rot of the State and its elites. This repression is followed by arbitrary arrests of activists branded as provocateurs of the people’s rage, the detention of hundreds of demonstrators, and the disappearance of dozens whose whereabouts remain unknown.
Through this statement, PPAS spits condemnation upon every instrument of State repression. We grieve, we rage, and we honor all those killed by the State during the uprisings of August 25 – September 3, 2025. We stand unflinching in solidarity with the victims of arbitrary arrest and with those still missing.
Therefore, PPAS raises the call for justice for all the people, demanding:
- Strip the Parliament of its false mandate of representation;
- End the forced arrests of activists and demonstrators;
- Free those already imprisoned;
- Return our comrades who are still missing;
- Defund and disarm the police and military;
- Smash State fascism in all its forms of repression.
May justice return to those who are owed. Demand the impossible! For in the end, only two roads remain: the road to the victory of the oppressed and exploited under State-capitalism — or the road to the triumph of the fascists.
