How are you, LBH Bandung?
We are still alive here. Still speaking. Still waiting.
How are things out there? Is the work going well? Do the agendas keep moving forward as usual?
Meanwhile, we remain here. Ten people in the West Java Regional Police detention facility. Living day after day with one question that keeps returning:
Do we still exist in your eyes?
We often hear that everyone has the right to legal assistance. That access to justice should not be determined by political background, organizational affiliation, or the stigma attached to a person.
But when the label “anarchist” is placed upon us, does that principle still apply?
When someone is branded a perpetrator of violence, do they automatically lose the right to be defended? The right to be heard? The right to be treated as a human being?
We are not asking to be justified.
We are only asking: does the principle of legal aid still stand when the case is unpopular?
If you have the time, come and visit.
Tuesday and Thursday are our visitation days.
Or contact our lawyer if you wish to hear directly about our situation.
Because behind the case files, the news reports, and the labels that circulate, there are still human beings waiting for a sign from the outside world.
Thank you to comrades across Indonesia and around the world who continue to remember us, send support, and ensure that our names do not simply disappear.
Perhaps we are not always right.
Perhaps we do not always win.
But even those who are accused, hated, or abandoned still possess the same rights before the law.
And so we will continue to remind everyone:
Justice that appears only for those who are liked is not justice at all.
We do not always win.
But we are always present.
Long Live Anarchy!
May Day 2026 Anarchist Prisoners
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