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Student Set Conditions Jokowi Meeting
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The Jakarta Post
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28 September 2019
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s appeal to open talks with student protesters has been rejected, with several university student bodies dismissing the possibility of any meeting unless the country’s leader answers their demands.
Roughly three days after tens of thousands of university students nationwide started a wave of protests, Jokowi conveyed his plan on Thursday to “directly listen” to the aspirations of protesters at a planned meeting on Friday.
But the students have not been so easy to appease, even after the President put on the table the possibility of issuing a government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) to revoke the controversial revision of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Law, which was one of the protesters’ demands.
In a statement received by The Jakarta Post on Friday, members of the National Association of University Student Executive Bodies (BEM-SI) said the students had two conditions that Jokowi must fulfill should the President want to sit together with them.
BEM-SI comprises BEM from a number of universities across the country that joined the protest in front of the House of Representatives on Monday and Tuesday.
They demanded that the meeting be open to the public and be broadcast live on television and that Jokowi issue concrete policies to follow up seven demands the protesters had outlined for the government and the House.
"What we need is not a meeting that is full of negotiations, but rather the President's firm commitment to our demands. We are not asking for a meeting, but for the President to satisfy our calls,” said BEM-SI coordinator Muhammad Nurdiyansyah of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB).
Among their seven demands are rejecting the passage of some controversial bills, solving cases of human rights abuses and withdrawing the Indonesian Military (TNI) from restive Papua.
Yogyakarta-based Gadjah Mada University’s (UGM) BEM president Atiatul Muqtadir said some student protesters had received an invitation sent by Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko, saying that their meeting with Jokowi was scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday.
However, Atiaqul said the UGM BEM was on the same page as members of the BEM-SI. "We decided not to attend the meeting with the President this Friday." University of Indonesia (UI) BEM president Manik Margamahendra also held to the