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Click link: https://archive.org/details/archipelago-of-fire
Print-imposed & Read-only PDF’s of the zine “Chaos in the Archipelago of Fire: A Compilation of Texts from the 2025 Insurrection in Indonesia & Subsequent Repression,” Parts One & Two
Adapted from the French-language zine:
Chaos dans l’Archipel de Feu
Sur l’insurrection d’août 2025 en Indonésie et sa répression
Latest report from Palang Hitam on the repression in Indonesia
PDF: Indo-Report_07-10-26
DETENTION REPORT
Palang Hitam, July 10th, 2026
This document details the amount of cases currently being handled by Palang Hitam. If we had more funds at our access we would be able to provide more support for the other cases we continue to be made aware of. Please contact palanghitam (no scums) riseup (acab) net if you can help us help the comrades in prison. It is needed to supply the prisoners with funds for their costs, for their families, those who need it, and for those who need lawyers as the police appointed lawyers work with the cops and prosecutors to screw the defendants. When we are able to employ the professional lawyers, the torture and abuse is able to be stopped. This is important as many of the defendants are being hurt and threatened until they give false testimony. In one case in Surabaya, one young man died from his injuries due to torture. The Densus88 anti-terrorist unit are mapping the anarchist movement and its internal relationships using threats and torture. The unit are using widespread data surveillance and spyware software, which they send to blogs and social media accounts to infiltrate the phones and devices of the comrades. We recommend the use of computer and phone security, realizing its limits. Indonesian officials are reported to have attended the summit convened by the American administration against the “far-left terrorism” and we remind all those on the streets and those in cyberspace to remain aware to the strong possibility of further repression. When revolutions go half way, we dig our own graves.
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COMMUNIQUE
On 10th June in Kingswood, Bristol, HSBC Bank was attacked and the windows were smashed. HSBC Bank are a large investor and financial bloodsucker operating in Indonesia, where foreign multinationals and domestic businesses allied to the Prabowo regime loot and destroy the ecology and people. It is the banks, capitalists and elites that are responsible for the misery in our lives and it doesn’t matter that our imprisoned comrades Adit, Naufal, Komar, Mpe and Dena are far away. Through destruction of a shared target, in this case a Bank with investments in the Indonesian state, we are making our solidarity real. Form affinity groups and go on the attack.
International solidarity to all anarchist prisoners for June 11th and also to those jailed for the actions against Elbit in Filton.
It is the State and Capital that is Terrorist.
Free Alfredo Cospito.
Long live Anarchy.
Black Foxes / FAI-IRF
My friends and brothers and sisters,
inside and outside these walls,
Peace be upon you.
I’m writing this letter to let you know that, God willing, I’m doing alright. A while ago I came down with a mild fever, but alhamdulillah, I’m still holding on, still under His grace and protection. I hope all of you are safe, healthy, and kept well. Aamiin.
My dear friends,
I’ve lost count of how many letters failed before this one finally made it out. There are barely any writing supplies in here, and when there are, they never last long. Even now, as I write this, I’m still being kept in quarantine. I don’t know for how much longer. Though honestly, I don’t expect anything from being moved to another block. To me, it’s all the same. The only thing I truly want, the only thing I keep hoping for, is FREEDOM. I want to go home. I want to eat my mother’s cooking again. I want to sit with my family. Continue reading “Open Letter from imprisoned anarchist Komar (Surabaya-Indonesia)”
Release update on some of the Chaos Star prisoners, plus the news Komar (from Black Block Zone) has written an important letter, which is being translated and will be published in the next days. Komar is still imprisoned in Surabaya and the Chaos Star prisoners are in Kebon Waru.
Pem and Herdi are expected to be released in approximately 30 days.
Jalus, Iyonk, Rexi, and TB are expected to be released in July.
The remaining detainees are Nopal and Adit, both sentenced to 3 years.
Meanwhile, Dena is still undergoing trial proceedings, which have currently reached the witness testimony stage. Dena is expected to undergo approximately five more hearings before sentencing, with an estimated sentence of 1 to 2 years.
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5/6/26
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On April 16, 2026, the verdicts were delivered for five of our comrades at the Bandung District Court. The details are as follows:
* Albi: sentenced to 6 months in prison for the Bandung unrest in August–September 2026.
* Pem: sentenced to 9 months in prison for the arson attack on the police post in Gentong, West Java.
* Herdi: sentenced to 9 months in prison for the arson attack on the police post in Gentong, West Java.
* Nopal: sentenced to 1 year in prison for the arson attack on the police post in Gentong, West Java.
* Adit: sentenced to 1 year in prison for the arson attack on the police post in Gentong, West Java.
Also, the first trial of our comrade Dena, also known as Apip or Scoobydoomz, has been postponed and is now scheduled for April 24, 2026.
This trial marks the beginning of proceedings against comrades involved in the arson of Hana Bank during protests against the Indonesian Military Bill in March 2025. Adit, Nopal, and Jalus may face further trials for separate charges.
Note:
Adit and Nopal have already faced two trials on different charges, and the combined sentences they currently face total three years in prison, not including the upcoming verdict for the Hana Bank arson in Bandung.
Gregorius Hugo, also known as Bake or Bex (informant), received only 7 months and 15 days—a sentence that can be considered virtually a free pass due to time already served in police and prosecution custody. This light sentence, despite his key involvement in the Gentong case, confirms his role as an informant/dead fucking snitch and his cooperation with the authorities! We advise international networks to cut ties with him.
For anarchy and the black international!
Going Underground.
Your Honorable Panel of Judges,
After everything that has happened regarding the act of violence I committed in the case of the burning of this police post, I have gained many things that I must take upon myself. About how the state —long before what I did— has carried out acts of violence on a far greater scale.
To be honest, after the defense I presented in the case of the August 2025 demonstration was rejected, everything feels pointless. My defense in the previous trial was already very long, explaining everything in great detail. Yet my suspicion that the verdict had been determined from the beginning only grew stronger when the decision was finally struck with the gavel. The state has sentenced me to two years in prison, and now the state demands again that I be given the same sentence. And for that, I only have very little room to defend the violence that I have committed.
It has become an open secret that all forms of violence and abuse of power by state apparatus —(read: the police)— have produced forms of human rights violations. One of the most severe and intolerable is the taking of human life. The Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) recorded 602 incidents of violence involving members of the Indonesian National Police from July 2024 to June 2025. From the Kanjuruhan tragedy, Randi and Yusuf, Afif Maulana, Gamma, Affan Kurniawan, Arianto Tawakkal, to Eko Prasetyo—the most recent—killed by the police. Continue reading “Defence Statement of Adit, Anarchist Prisoner in Chaos Star Case (Indonesia)”