Prison Struggle – Dark Nights

Urgent update on health situation of Eat and Dena, imprisoned anarchists in Chaos Star case

Posted on 2026/01/14 by darknights

14.1.2026

We received the information that imprisoned anarchist comrades Eat (Reyhard Rumbayan) and Dena (Maditya Dena), are still held in the West Java paramilitary police compound in the fabricated ‘Chaos Star case‘, and that they have badly declined in health. In the case of Eat, severely. Both comrades have HIV+ diagnosis and are struggling to receive adequate healthcare, food and nutrition for their serious condition. Eat is suffering constant extreme pain from atrophy in his arm which is paralyzed.

Eat’s condition is in an advanced stage and we call for increased attention and pressure on his case. We remind that Eat is long-known anarchist who was imprisoned and took responsibility for the incendiary attack against a bank as part of revolutionary solidarity to Luciano Tortuga’s situation, after the latter was injured in an attempted bombing in Chile, 2011. We will never leave our comrades alone inside the prison and we will seek our vengeance.

We hold the Indonesian regime responsible for the abuse, the torture, the lives of our comrades.

After the uprising in August 2025, the anarchist movement is being blamed for causing the unrest, but this conceals the fact that the mass popular insurrection did not belong to the anarchists, it belonged to everyone. From Iran, to Indonesia, to the USA, we will fight back!

For international revolutionary solidarity! Free the prisoners!

Palang Hitam/Anarchist Black Cross

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Write to Eat and Dena

[Name]
Jl. Soekarno Hatta No.748,
Cimenerang, Kec. Gedebage,
Kota Bandung,
Jawa Barat 40292,
Indonesia

INDONESIA – Letter from Prison by Comrade Dena a.k.a Apip a.k.a Scoobydoomz

Posted on 2026/01/14 by darknights

Letter from Prison by Comrade Dena a.k.a Apip a.k.a Scoobydoomz

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Detention Center, West Java Police Headquarter. January 13, 2026.

Greetings, comrades! I hope this message finds you well. As I write, I’ve just been informed that my case has been submitted to the prosecutor’s office. The police investigator told me I have only a few more days left in this cell. I hope to be transferred to Kebon Waru Prison by the end of this month, where I can reunite with other comrades, even if it’s under the condition of being “imprisoned.”

To those of you outside, trust in the fire burning in your chest–it won’t easily fade if you believe in it. This struggle is fated for anyone who stands by it. We didn’t start this war; we’re simply fighting back! We resist the tyranny of the powerful, the violence of the authorities, the massive land evictions, the monopoly on natural resources, the criminalization of those who speak out, those who defend their rights, indigenous communities, and our fellow comrades. We’re only fighting back against all of that!

Comrades, the actions you take–whether through resistance or defiance–are nothing compared to the injustice they have inflicted upon us. Stay strong and unshaken! Fighting back is the truest form of love.

-Scoobydoomz

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Dena, also known by his stage names Apip and Scoobydoomz, is a radical rapper who performs in urban ruins, conflict zones, and similar spaces. He was imprisoned for his role in the destruction of buildings during the protests against the military bill, particularly the burning of Hana Bank in Bandung on March 21, 2025. He is currently grouped under the “chaos star” case, classified as a nihilist/egoist/insurrectionist anarchist by the police.

FULL OF LOVE AND PASSION, OUR SOLIDARITY WITH ALL ANARCHIST PRISONERS ACROSS THE NATION. WE WILL NEVER ABANDON YOU.

Going Underground / F.A.A.F

Post-August Mass Action Manhunt in Surakarta (Solo): Arrest of Comrades Riky and Kipli a.k.a Blazevomit – Indonesia

Posted on 2026/01/10 - 2026/01/10 by darknights

As the authoritarian regime of Prabowo and Gibran tightens its grip on Indonesia in 2025, dissent has erupted across the nation. What began as a mass wave of protests against corruption, oppression, and systemic violence has turned into an unrelenting campaign of state-sponsored repression. In the streets, solidarity movements bloomed in the wake of a tragic event: the brutal killing of Affan, an online motorcycle driver run over by a Brimob [Mobile Brigade Corps- Special operations, paramilitary, and tactical unit of the Indonesian National Police] armored vehicle during a protest in Jakarta. This act of violence ignited an even greater fire of resistance, yet it also marked the beginning of a systematic crackdown on comrades, journalists, and anyone challenging the regime.

Two comrades from Solo, Rizky Ardiansyah, known as Riky, and Muhammad Rafli Andriansyah, or Kipli, were among the first to fall victim to the regime’s wave of arrests. The two were arrested in November for their involvement in a mass action in August at the Brimob Headquarters, Battalion C Pelopor, Manahan, Solo. They were charged with a range of serious offenses, including alleged property destruction and involvement in creating incendiary devices such as Molotov cocktails, accusations that were heavily inflated and fueled by visual evidence obtained by the police.

But the real story here is not just about the charges. They are a smokescreen, a tool used by the state to criminalize dissent and stifle the growing resistance. Both Riky and Kipli now face trial in Surakarta, with their hearings set for January 2026, but their plight is a reflection of a much larger reality: the state’s war against anyone who dares to oppose it. Continue reading “Post-August Mass Action Manhunt in Surakarta (Solo): Arrest of Comrades Riky and Kipli a.k.a Blazevomit – Indonesia” →

Arrests and torture in Bali, Makassar and Surabaya (Indonesia)

Posted on 2026/01/06 - 2026/01/06 by darknights

via IWOC:

General Situation in Indonesia

On September 16, 2025, 14 individuals were arrested by the Bali Police on charges of vandalizing buildings and vehicles in the area of the Bali Police Headquarters and the Bali Regional Representative Council during the August 30 demonstration.

Since September, 288 people have been arrested for the August uprising in Surabaya, East Java. Some of whom have been released in poor condition, since the police tortured them badly for three days. This leaves around 80 people remaining imprisoned in Surabaya, including approximately 30 accused anarchists there. This week, some of them will undergo their first trial. The case in Surabaya is particularly sad because many of those arrested are ordinary people, such as workers or online motorcycle taxi drivers who happened to be in the vicinity of the riots. Some were simply watching the riots but were then arrested sporadically. Although they were eventually released in a battered state, some of their property, such as their cell phones, was not returned by the police/ Motorcycle taxi drivers did not even get back the motorcycles they used to make a living.

In addition, the police continue to arrest anyone proven to have been involved in the August demonstrations, especially students and activists in various cities. This time, they involved infiltrators in the Movement to map out arrest targets. As a result, many people are paranoid and suspicious of each other. Continue reading “Arrests and torture in Bali, Makassar and Surabaya (Indonesia)” →

Solidarity event in Derry for UK Palestine Action Hunger Strikers (Northern Ireland)

Posted on 2025/12/22 by darknights

Solidarity with Hunger Strikers at Free Derry this evening as several political prisoners have now entered their 48-day of action. Families of the two Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) hunger strikers, Patsy O’Hara and Mickey Devine, issued moving tributes in solidarity as many of those gathered held deep memories of those tragic days in Derry back in 1981.

Over the coming days, other solidarity actions are being planned locally as several of those hunger strikers edge closer to death. Calls for their immediate release and those of the Filton 24 have also been repeatedly made before this evenings action came to a close.

A member of the DAC commented afterwards, stating: “We are all too aware that this situation should not have been allowed to get to this stage. But as we know, only to well, the actions of the British State have once again attempted to crush a movement opposed to their military machine and its authoritarian regime. A grassroots movement that is fundamentally opposed to the unfolding terror and deliberate genocide on the people of Palestine. Many have taken to the streets, taken part in direct action, and have been forcibly silenced or unjustly imprisoned.

“The widespread solidarity shown here today to demand immediate humanitarian intervention to help bring an end the hunger strikes. To help bring an end to their unjust treatment of all of the prisoners involved, and to see their immediate release will continue to grow. They can not silence or imprison all of us, we are seeds!”

More pics here…

@prisoners4palestine @freethefilton24

‘Broken Windows Chaos Theory’ by Ross Smith locked up in HMP Garth (UK)

Posted on 2025/12/01 - 2025/12/01 by darknights

Broken Windows Chaos Theory – The Collective

Broken windows – Broken state – Leaves families feeling that is their fate – Failing systems – Failing state – leaves mental health in a similar state – Families hungry they turn to crime – Shunned by society

That is a crime- Destroy the system – Destroy the state – This is the only inevitable fate – As rich get richer, poor get poorer – Unite and shout so they can’t ignore ya – Time to banish this cancerous new world order

Compassion, love – And a sprinkling of disorder – Our new world order

Let these words stew – ruminate – And just remember

Fuck the State

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Ross Smith is imprisoned in the long-term high security prison HMP Garth for possession of a Skorpion submachine gun and a hand grenade. By the time Ross gets out he will have done 22 years in prison. Ross would like to hear from you and receive postcards, letters and books. He is part of the counter-culture and likes anarchist ideas, anti-art/Dada, sound-systems, nihilism, ecology and the natural world. Ross likes training and is into fitness. Ross is from North Wales.

Write to Ross:

Ross Smith
A3659DT
HMP Garth
Ulnes Walton
Leyland
PR26 8NE
UK

Spoken contribution by Toby Shone for the Tattoo Circus, Bristol, 2025

Posted on 2025/12/01 - 2025/12/01 by darknights

This is from a talk by Toby at the Bristol Tattoo Circus, which took place a few weeks ago at a squatted venue in the city. After the talks and workshops there was bands, DJs and a benefit party. Free the prisoners!

Hello everyone,

Ok, we’re at Tattoo circus, my name is Toby Shone, I’m an ex-prisoner and anarchist. Tattoo Circus was started around 20 years ago in Italy as a way to fund anarchist prisoner solidarity campaigns.

I want to thank the organisers for inviting me here to speak, it’s very important as a released political prisoner to be able to come back into the community. Especially after living for a considerable amount of time distanced from the social movement. So overall, I want to communicate any lessons that can be told. Some of you already know me, so I’ll try not to bore you with what you know already, but for others I’ll just re-cap the case that I was involved in, then I’m going to simply give some anecdotes about my time in prison, and then speak about solidarity briefly.

I was arrested in the November 2020 Operation Adream case, and I was imprisoned for three years in conditions of solitary confinement and monitored for a year in line with UK-wide anti-terrorist restrictions by the National Security Division and Counter-Terror Police. From the evidence I’ve seen, it indicates that there is an ongoing investigation by the anti-terrorist units into the social movement in the South West region, and we can conclude that it’s also taking place across the country. I think it is certainly not for us to have to justify our harmlessness, but to really think about what it is going to take, long-term, for the type of social changes we’re aiming for. Continue reading “Spoken contribution by Toby Shone for the Tattoo Circus, Bristol, 2025” →

Letter from some imprisoned comrades from the ‘Chaos Star’ case (Indonesia)

Posted on 2025/11/30 - 2025/11/30 by darknights

Palang Hitam/ABC: This letter is by a section of the Chaos Star defendants in the West Java Paramilitary police compound. The reference in the signature to FAAF, is the Free Association of Autonomous Fires. Fire To The Prisons!

Greetings to friends and to enemies alike,

Even now, the structures of power—ancient, rigid, and towering—continue to stand. Yet last August, people cracked the illusion of their invincibility. They showed that nothing is beyond transformation when our desires converge into a force capable of opening pathways toward the worlds we long to create.

We are individualists because we refuse the ideological fantasies of withered anarchists who preach like missionaries of a fading religion.

We are individualists because we believe in an anarchy of imagination—creative, diverse, unbound.

We are individualists who hold that nihilism is a concrete passage toward self-actualization, beyond the messianic dead-ends of dividing reality into “good” and “evil,” knowing full well the complexity of life cannot be squeezed into the decaying relics of Judeo-Christian doctrine—relics that should be buried like the myths of prophets and their fading gods.

We are individualists because we believe in the absolute autonomy of each person to shape the life they desire—yet we also believe in cooperation, in the equality of individuals who pursue their desires together. Our anti-social anarchy is an active refusal of the old values reproduced endlessly in everyday life.

At the same time we are bewildered, amused, and entertained by the foolish accusations hurled by some social anarchists who label us “purists” as if our rejection of organization were born of loyalty to some classical anarchist canon—an ideology drenched in Eurocentrism, streaked with the colonial residue of Western civilization, and infused with the Enlightenment’s humanism, the very root of authoritarian democracy. We reject all ideologies. The rebels of Paris Commune in 1871, the revolutionaries of Spain in 1936, the dreamers of Paris in 1968, and those of August 2025—all remind us of brief lives that were truly worth living beyond any ideologies.

From behind these walls and bars, we send a sharp wind toward every wild soul, reminding them that they are not alone against the repulsive realities engineered by the powerful.

The compass of anarchy draws us together at the threshold between free will and the will to power. We belong to no formal anarchist organization (spare us).

We are not part of impotent collectives like the PRISONERS’ UNION, (Serikat Tahanan) nor of any group that claims us for their own—much less the so-called anarchist movement with its church-like rigidity and archaic morality.

Toward the fusion of social and individual anarchy, and toward the negation of every radical movement that mirrors—or even surpasses—the mental and physical prisons of the state and capitalism!

This is an open letter to all anarchist of praxis. Fuck all idols, burn all radical bibles, and attack the enemy on all fronts.

– FAAF and Individualist prisoners, West Java police prison, 1 December 2025.

Indonesian Update 11.29.25

Posted on 2025/11/29 - 2025/11/29 by darknights

11.29.25

Conditions inside police detention:

– From the very beginning, this case hasn’t been handled only by regular police and the Cyber Crime unit, but also by Densus 88 (the special anti-terrorism/anti-makar squad). Makar is Indonesian term for “inciting an action or planning to overthrow the government”).

– Most of the arrested anarchists have already started going through trials and have been moved to Kebon Waru prison.

– Eat (Reyhard Rumbayan) still has zero info about when his trial will happen. He’s the only one who’s been interrogated by Densus 88 — they see him as the “mastermind” behind everything related to the anarchist stuff.

– There are basically three types of charges being thrown at the detainees: (1) the brains behind the scenes, (2) the instigators, (3) the ones who got instigated. Of course, that’s because the state can’t wrap its head around the idea that spontaneous actions can happen without any leader — that concept just doesn’t exist in state logic.

– The anarchist detainees don’t have access to lawyers. Some of them were thrown straight into solitary confinement for a month or even longer. By Indonesian law, a lawyer has to be appointed by family members. Problem is, quite a few of these anarchists don’t have family willing to help. A couple who finally got family support are now starting to work with lawyers. Some lawyers are already being lined up for those who haven’t gone to trial yet.

– Health conditions of several detainees are getting worse. Two people were badly physically tortured, one was psychologically tortured to the point of severe depression so bad he can barely speak, one is in critical condition and was taken to a military hospital, and Eat’s health is deteriorating because they won’t let him get the regular medication he needs for his medical condition.

– The initial donated money has mostly been used to cover medical treatment so far.

– Latest news: 12 anarchists were arrested in Bali and transferred to police detention in West Java.

General situation in Indonesia:

– Densus 88 has started infiltrating anarchist circles, including scenes that are considered close to anarchists, like the punk scene.

– These infiltrators are using imagery and symbols that anarchists (especially insurrectionary ones) normally use, so others will think they’re legit. They’re actively pushing for riots like the ones that happened last August, hoping to scoop up young anarchists who join in.

– Bad news: some of these infiltrators have actually succeeded.

– This is going to turn into a massive witch-hunt against anarchists all over Indonesia.

Eight anarchist detainees from the “Chaos Star” case have been transferred after court (Indonesia)

Posted on 2025/11/18 by darknights

Eight anarchist detainees from the “Chaos Star” case have undergone their first court on 18 November 2025. This means they have now been transferred to the prosecutor’s detention facility. They are accused of throwing stones at police officers, allegedly causing around Rp 2 billion in damages during the 30 August 2025 demonstration. All eight have been charged with multiple articles: Article 170 (violence in public), Article 214 (collective resistance), and Article 406 (destruction of another person’s property) of the Indonesian Criminal Code. They are:

• Muhamad Subhan (M.S)
• Eli Yana (E.Y)
• Muhamad Vansa Alfarisi (M.V.A)
• Muhamad Rifa Aditya (M.R.A)
• Veri Kurniawan Kusuma (V.K.K)
• Joy Erlando Pandiangan (J.E.P)
• Muhamad Jalaludin Mukhlis (M.J.M)
• Jatnika Alang Ramdani Septiawan (J.A.R.S)

All eight were tortured to force them into confessing to the alleged offenses.

Send solidarity post to the anarchist detainees, English language or Bahasa Indonesian:

[Name]
JI. Jakarta No.42-44,
Kebonwaru, Kec. Batununggal,
Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat
Indonesia

Palang Hitam/Anarchist Black Cross: We urgently need financial solidarity to continue prisoner support activities and to secure commerical lawyers for the defendants. Please contact Dark Nights or recognised long-running ABC groups to donate.