The Community Coalition urges the National Police Chief and Komnas HAM to investigate the repressive actions of a group of plainclothes people who dispersed a student forum to discuss the impeachment of President Jokowi.

Imparsial researcher Hussein Ahmad explained that the forum was held on Saturday, February 3, 2024 at around 23.06 WIB. The Jakarta student forum was held at the Trilogy University Campus, Kalibata, South Jakarta.

“Suddenly a group of unknown people dressed in plainclothes arrived. Without explaining the purpose and objectives of their arrival, they forced students to leave the campus while threatening students not to discuss the plan for a demonstration that encourages the impeachment of the president. Not only that, there was even one student who experienced violence in the form of being horned in the head,” Hussein said in his statement, Sunday, February 4, 2024.

Therefore, said Hussein, the coalition considers this incident not just an ordinary act of crime or thuggery. The repression against the student forum that discussed the matter of impeaching the president must be seen as an action that is laden with power interests. In fact, he continued, the incident was suspected of being orchestrated or condoned by interested parties.

Then, Hussein said that law enforcement officials, especially the National Police, should be proactive in responding to this incident by conducting investigations.

The National Police must be able to reveal this case not only at the level of field actors, all parties who mastermind or become intellectual actors must also be revealed and prosecuted.