Overview

The wave of demonstrations that swept Indonesia back in August 2025 was followed by a series of criminalization efforts that targeted various individuals who had expressed their views in the digital sphere, including calls to participate in protests, whether said views had been expressed directly or through online platforms. Several individuals, among them Laras Faizati Khairunnisa, Khariq Anhar and Delpedro Marhaen, were reported to have faced court proceedings as a consequence of the expressions and criticisms that they had conveyed online.

These three individuals share a common thread in that they were arrested in the aftermath of the wave of protests that swept the country in August 2025, with law enforcement actions being based on content that they had posted on social media. Khariq Anhar, then still a university student, was detained after adding text to a screenshot of a news article exhorting fellow citizens to join the demonstrations.[1] Meanwhile, Laras Faizati Khairunnisa was arrested on the grounds that the content that she had uploaded contained elements of provocation and incitement, in particular, an alleged call to set fire to the Headquarters of the National Police Force.[2]