Indonesia's corrupt prison system provides inadequate food rations and
forces prisoners to pay for it themselves. Support financially theprisoners effort to publish their writings within Indonesia's prisonsystem. We, Serikat Tahanan, is an anti-authoritarian prisonersassociation. We organize mainly inside, but also outside, elevendifferent prisons across Indonesia, reaching out to fellow convictedanti-authoritarian activists to advocate and educate the public aboutprison conditions in Indonesia. This initiative, driven by the currentlyconvicted, was started as a simple form of solidarity among us-tonurture hope-so we don't feel left out or come out of jail as a moredamaged human beings. By organizing in Serikat Tahanan, we areconstantly reminded why we started our fight. Our long term agenda is toabolish prison.We have been writing, or at least learning to write, our own experiencesand thoughts inside the prison. We want to publish these writings but,of course, we don't have money. Indonesia's corrupt prison systemprovides inadequate food rations and forces prisoners to pay for itthemselves. All these time we have been living off solidarity fromcomrades outside prison as it's almost impossible for us to work. Lackof funds and bribe-ridden prison conditions worsen our lives and hamperour writing project. We will use the proceeds from book sales to run theprogram that has been determined and run by the prisoners themselves.The book we publish will consist of about a dozen writings by prisonersand ex-prisoners convicted of arsoning, destruction of property,incitement to riots and drug use. This paper will contain socialcriticism of the structure of Indonesian society, reflections of action,survival in prison, and a wealth of lessons that are useful foraudiences and social movement actors. We will also allocate a portion ofthe free published books for collectives and libraries.Therefore we ask the international anti-authoritarian activists,anarchists, anti-fascists and abolitionist network to stand insolidarity in our efforts to publish our writings. We have budgetedaround IDR 5.5 million (327 euros) for the cost of communicating acrossprison, sneaking writing tools, editing, printing and distributing thebooks. Help us publish our writings within Indonesia's corrupt prisonsystem and support prisoners' campaigns!This fundraising is supported by the Indonesian Anarchist PublishingNetwork (JPA) and the Abolitionist Collective (Japan). These writingswill also be translated into English and Japanese.https://www.firefund.net/serikattahananwritings_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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