Yosafat Menteng 与其他五人一道，从印度尼西亚婆罗洲的加里曼丹远道而来，只为参加周三在雅加达市中心举行的学生抗议活动。
Yosafat Menteng travelled all the way from Kalimantan in Indonesia’s Borneo with five others just to take part in Wednesday’s student protest in the heart of Jakarta.
在老家巴朗卡拉亚——这座受烟霾侵袭最严重的城市之一——他担任巴朗卡拉亚大学社会政治学院学生会主席。
Back home in Palangka Raya, one of the worst-affected cities by the haze, he heads the students’ council at the University of Palangkaraya’s Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
“我们加里曼丹人强烈敦促政府将苏门答腊、加里曼丹和巴布亚发生的森林火灾宣布为国家灾难，”他说，呼应了抗议组织者的诉求。
“We in Kalimantan strongly urge the government to declare the forest fires happening in Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua a national disaster,” he said, echoing the claims of the protest organisers.
印度尼西亚大学的学生周三在首都多处发起抗议，敦促政府将正在进行的野火宣布为国家灾难。
Students from the University of Indonesia are staging protests in several spots in the capital on Wednesday to urge the government to declare the ongoing wildfires a national disaster.
批评人士认为，政府的犹豫背后有财政和政治动机。雅加达今年为国家灾害管理机构拨款 4000 亿卢比（约合 2200 万美元），较去年的 2 万亿卢比大幅缩减。
Critics believe that fiscal and political motives are behind the administration’s hesitation. Jakarta allocated 400 billion rupiah (US$22 million) this year for the National Disaster Management Agency, a sharp drop from 2 trillion rupiah last year.
Yosafat 表示，他希望邀请中央政府官员深入灾区办公。“这将有助于他们了解破坏的规模和严重程度，以及对人类生命造成的后果。”抗议者还要求停止在民粹主义项目上的支出，例如总统普拉博沃·苏比安托的免费餐食计划，以及文职领域日益加剧的军事化倾向。
Yosafat said he would like to invite central government officials to situate themselves in and work from disaster zones. “It will help them understand the scale and severity of the destruction involved and their consequences for human lives.”The protesters are also demanding a halt spending on populist programmes such as President Prabowo Subianto’s free meals scheme and increasing militarisation of the civilian sphere.
“我们呼吁立即终止‘白象工程’，例如免费餐食计划和红白合作社，并将资金转投免费教育，”Yosafat 说。
“We call for the immediate termination of white-elephant programmes, such as the free meals scheme and the Red and White Cooperative, and channel the funds into free education instead,” Yosafat said.
周三的抗议活动带有 #IndonesiaAware 标签。目前不清楚有多少学生走上街头。
Wednesday’s protests carried the hashtag #IndonesiaAware. It is unclear how many students have taken to the streets.
受烟霾困扰的婆罗洲和苏门答腊地区也举行了抗议，包括上周在中加里曼丹的一场示威。周三上午，在雅加达市中心繁忙路段可以看到大量警力和军力部署，以及装甲车辆。
Protests have also been held in haze-stricken areas of Borneo and Sumatra, including one in Central Kalimantan last week. A heavy police and military presence, as well as armoured vehicles, could be seen in busy parts of central Jakarta on Wednesday morning.
能源与清洁空气研究中心的研究员兼分析师凯瑟琳·哈桑对学生们的行动表示欢迎。
Katherine Hasan, a researcher and analyst at Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, welcomed the students’ action.
她说：“加里曼丹岛和苏门答腊岛森林与土地大火导致的空气污染加剧，加上爪哇岛长期存在的污染，必须成为所有人的警钟。”
“The escalating air pollution from blazing forest and land fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra, alongside chronic pollution across Java, must serve as a wake-up call for all,” she said.
她补充说，清洁空气是一项基本人权，政府有责任保护它。通过学生抗议，“我们现在有一个关键的窗口期和机会，将公民权利和公共卫生重新置于国家议程的首位——绝不妥协”。
Clean air was a fundamental human right and the government had a duty to protect it, she added. Through the student protests, “we have a crucial window and opportunity right now to put citizens’ rights and public health back at the top of the national agenda — without compromise”.
据赛富勒·穆贾尼研究与咨询公司的民调显示，普拉博沃的支持率自去年底以来持续下滑，距其就任总统已两年。
Prabowo’s approval ratings have fallen steadily since late last year, according to surveys by Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting, two years into his presidency.
印度尼西亚上一次大规模抗议发生在8月，当时数百人被拘留，学生上周也举行了示威。
Indonesia’s last major protest took place in August, when hundreds were detained, and students also held demonstrations last week.
2025年，因警方击毙一名摩托车网约车司机，印度尼西亚爆发了持续数周的全国性抗议，动荡期间又有数人丧生。
In 2025, weeks-long nationwide protests broke out in Indonesia after the police killing of a motorcycle taxi driver, with several more people killed during the unrest.