Indonesia: students' demonstration disbanded, participants arrested
Event- Country
- Indonesia
- Initial Date
- Mar 22, 2021
- Event Description
Police officer from the Jayapura City Police arrested five students demonstrating carrying the Bintang Kejora flag on Monday (22/3/2021). The police also disband a demonstration demanding that Government of Indonesia open access for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Papua. The rally was initiated by students of the students of Universitas Sains dan Teknologi Jayapura (USTJ) on campus. Initially, the protesters had time to postpone their action, because they saw that the police were already on campus.
- Impact of Event
- 6
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Administrative Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Offline
- Right to liberty and security
- HRD
- Student
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: -2.5385803286958515
Longitude: 140.70411300228557
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On March 22, 2021, a student rally were disbanded and 5 students were arrested by the police as they were calling the government to allow a UN visit to Papua, in Jayapura, Indonesia