Mutual Aid Request Roundup 6 August 2026
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They Fenced the Malls, Then Un-Fenced Them: A State That Manages MemoryI’m writing this from Jakarta, eleven days before the 81st Independence Day, and this week the country’s entire security apparatus stood on one stage at once to tell the public that nothing is happening. Coordinating Minister for Politics and Security Djamari Chaniago, flanked by TNI commander General Agus Subiyanto, National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, intelligence chief Muhammad Herindra, and Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin, held a joint press conference on Wednesday insisting the domestic situation “remains secure and fully under control” and urging the public not to be swayed by “disinformation” about unrest this August. Five of the most powerful men in the country do not typically assemble to deny that nothing is wrong.
What none of those five men explained is the week that led up to that podium. Photos and videos of newly built fences barricading Kota Kasablanka mall in South Jakarta and Pakuwon mall in Bekasi spread across social media, prompting speculation that businesses were quietly bracing for unrest. The fences went up. Then, over the weekend, without explanation, the fences came down. In the gap between those two facts, old footage from last August’s uprising resurfaced online, presented as though it were happening now, alongside claims that Indonesian mainstream media was deliberately burying new protests. The government’s response was not to explain the fences. It was to announce that the Attorney General’s Office and National Police would pursue criminal charges against accounts spreading “hoaxes” about riots, and within days, police in Ciamis Regency, West Java, arrested a forty-five-year-old woman for uploading posts about a planned demonstration. A private citizen went from social media post to police custody faster than a mall fence went up and came back down.
None of this is new, and none of it is incidental. It is almost exactly a year since police in this country ran over a rideshare driver named Affan Kurniawan with an armoured van and kept driving, the video that turned a protest over parliamentary housing perks into the largest uprising this country has seen in a generation: nearly fifty cities, ten dead, more than a thousand injured, over three thousand arrested. Eight of those activists are still facing six to twelve years in prison for the crime of posting on social media about where the protests were. A Human Rights Watch report published barely a week ago documented how the Prabowo government keeps expanding the military’s footprint into mining, palm oil, and so-called food and energy estates, prosecuting the environmental defenders and Indigenous leaders standing in its way. A state apparatus that fences a mall overnight and arrests a woman in Ciamis for a Facebook post, while insisting both are nothing to see, is managing memory rather than disinformation, and this government has practice at that: this is the same state that made a genocider and the most corrupt president in its history (Bevins, 2020) a national hero, within a year after the current president, who’s also a documented human rights abuser, took office. A government fluent enough in rewriting its own history to canonise Soeharto has had plenty of practice managing the story ahead of managing the problem underneath it, and fencing a mall without a word of explanation is just this week’s version of that same habit.
The same expansion into mining, palm oil, and food and energy estates that HRW documented this month is the same mechanism showing up everywhere, not something unique to Jakarta. An economy that depends on extraction, whether it’s Gaza’s aquifers, Hormuz’s shipping lanes, or Kalimantan’s nickel, will always find a reason to militarise its own protection and call the militarisation routine, and a state built around protecting that extraction will always move faster to manage the story than to fix what the story is about. The Jakarta Post’s own editorial page noted this week that Indonesia’s GDP growth has already slowed to 5.29 percent as the Hormuz standoff ripples through import costs, a war Indonesia had no part in starting, absorbed into ordinary import bills while the same government spends its speed fencing malls against imagined unrest at home.
Solidarity that stops at a coastline is tourism. Below is this week’s list. A state that moves this fast to defend a mall has yet to move half that fast for anyone’s rent, anywhere. Give directly, share widely, and don’t let “under control” talk you out of noticing who’s actually being protected, and who’s being made an example of.
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✨Palestinian Campaign Spotlight✨
Hilal and Mohammad’s Gaza Family Need Help Now
Amidst the rubble of these difficult days, their son’s glasses were broken, leaving him unable to see or move due to severe astigmatism. It pains Hilal and her husband that they’re currently unable to provide a replacement. We appeal to compassionate hearts for a kind gesture so their little one can see his path again.
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@Hilalgazayafa@mastodon.social
Help Abed and Eman protect their little children
Abed and Eman are a family in Gaza seeking urgent help to protect their young children and survive. Please support their Chuffed campaign and share it widely with others today. (View original post)
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Gaza Verified Archive
Verified Palestinian campaigns under $200
These are verified Palestinian accounts whose campaigns received less than $200 in the past 7 days.
Nine of many. The archive holds the rest.
@tamer_2003_@mastodon.social
@hak51156@mastodon.social
@RiyadMousa@mastodon.social
@danyarelkhodari@mastodon.social
@Raghadfamily@mastodon.social
@Nesman0@mastodon.social
@shathamohammed123@mastodon.social
@tahreersoph@mastodon.social
@reemmohammed@mastodon.social
Open the archive, find the campaign link on each account, give directly where possible, and share the campaign links that need movement.
[View underfunded campaign list](https://gaza.onl/campaigns/accounts?currency=USD&start_time=2026-07-30T00:00:00&sort=amount:asc)
[About Gaza Verified Campaigns](https://gaza.onl)
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