Photographer: Donal Donal
Title: Riots in Jakarta
Location: jakarta
Period: 08/2025 - 08/2025
Category: Spot News

Tear Gas and Fire — The Language of a Government That Lost Control

Jakarta’s streets turned into a battlefield when parliament failed and the cabinet stumbled, dragging the economy down with them. Promises of prosperity dissolved into soaring prices and lost jobs, leaving citizens with nothing but anger. Protesters filled the capital, demanding answers, yet the government responded not with dialogue, but with tear gas and fire. In that smoke and flame, the people saw the true face of power — a government that had lost control of both policy and trust.



darkest hour of Indonesia Flag

Indonesia flag fly low as the riots happen

The Rise of One Piece Flag

One Piece Flag as the symbol of resistant from demonstrant against the unjustice by Prabowo administration and House of Representative error

Try to go inside House of Representative Jakarta

Students mostly from High school try to break the House of representative wall

Breaking the demonstrant

Police try to break the demonstrant who want to go inside the house of representative building

Fire for resist

Demonstrant burn papers as symbol of resistant to the corrupt government

Fight for justice

A demonstrant with bamboos try to fight back the police as sysmbol of resistant from the failed Indonesia government

among tear gas with bamboo

A demonstrant hold a bamboo and stay strong against dozens of tear gas fire at him

asking for peace

A police asking for peace to demonstrant so the riots can end

fire of protest

demonstrant fire firecracker to the police as the protest to their compatriots who some dies during the demonstration

Wall of Hate

A wall at a burnt bus station written with hate words to Indonesia government

walking for resist

a demonstrant walking among the destroyed bus station during the riots

broken indonesia

a man walking uppon a broken fibre glass from a bus station that was destroyed during the riots