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Occupy Jakarta? We Might if We Knew We Were Being Invited
Anita Rachman | October 17, 2011

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janu45
3:14pm Oct 19, 2011

We have no dreams anymor... Oh no...:( I hope an Indonesian people wake from long sleep with no social consciousness and more of justice in their dreams. Mostly to protest the government which have no independency from corporate and any other eksploitative policy that make the poor ignored. Intellectual and collage only produce some dictance from the social justice dreams. That's why im support this movement by follow @occupyjakarta


tedjo
6:06pm Oct 17, 2011

An "invitation" to occupy jakarta? thought the occupy wall street&other similar movements are populist events that spring up simultaneously.what are the initiators waiting for?an invitation to the state palace?an invitation to the jakarta street party?! Please!


jusdogin
1:11pm Oct 17, 2011

rice cooking oil and fuel money are the only non religious thing that gets people protesting - and even the religious protests require fuel money. when i was a student we could make about Rp150,000 joining protests thats 20-50 in cash then we could sell the other stuff to other protesters


supertramp
12:51pm Oct 17, 2011

enough is enough, fight for a better future of the society is a must

tedjo
12:09pm Oct 17, 2011

Who cares bout the invitation?occupy the capital anyway.as long as we got innumerable grievances like corruption, religious extremism,government mismanagement,corporate greed etc no invitations are necessary. Am sure the people of jakarta will be receptive (except those fool enough to be part of a rent a mob)

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An Indonesian version of the Occupy Wall Street movement that went global over the weekend might gain supporters, activists and observers say, if only its organizers could get organized.

The Facebook account Occupy Jakarta only had 66 “likes” as of Sunday evening and the Twitter account @occupyjkt — which said it was urgent to occupy Jakarta because food, water, education and development are people’s rights and not commodities — had 93 followers. A second, @occupyjakarta, had five.

A rally on Sunday morning at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle to mark World Food Day was initially thought to be part of Occupy Jakarta as some protesters held banners saying they were part of Indonesia’s 99 percent — the slogan symbolizing the marginalized majority popularized by the Wall Street protesters — but that turned out to be an accident.

“I think we need to organize this better if we want a real movement,” said Mariana Amiruddin, executive director of Jurnal Perempuan, a women’s rights magazine, who attended the rally thinking it was the Occupy Jakarta movement.

Yuyun Harmono from the Anti-Debt Coalition said Sunday’s rally was mixed since some protestors came to commemorate World Food Day.

Despite the confusion, several Occupy Jakarta supporters said they wanted a real movement here, though for reasons different than those in Wall Street. “Indonesia’s 1 percent are the government, [greedy] corporations and politicians,” Mariana said. “Corruption impoverishes people.”

An Occupy Jakarta supporter from Surabaya, Eri Irawan, said it was important to remind people about greedy corporations. “The 1 percent in Indonesia are businessmen who collude with each other,” he said.

A Facebook post invited supporters to occupy the Indonesia Stock Exchange on Wednesday.