[Indonesia] Protests: Peaceful protest

Summary

Single-source ACLED detection — awaiting independent verification. On April 7, 2025, Papuan student groups staged a peaceful protest in Malang, East Java, opposing PT Freeport Indonesia's mining operations and natural resource extraction in Papua, while also demanding Papuan self-determination and opposing Military Law revision. The event is classified as low severity with no accompanying news coverage.

Supply chain impact

No commodities or chokepoints are directly mapped to this event; second-order effects depend on how the situation escalates. If confirmed and part of broader anti-mining sentiment, such protests could signal growing opposition to extractive operations in Papua, though the geographic separation between the protest location in East Java and actual mining sites limits immediate operational impact.

Watch points

• Monitor for similar protests in Papua itself or near actual mining operations, which could pose more direct operational risks
• Track whether this reflects broader organized opposition to Indonesian mining policy that could spread to other resource extraction sites