Letter from some imprisoned comrades from the ‘Chaos Star’ case

From Dark Nights - Indonesia

Palang Hitam/ABC: This letter is by a section of the Chaos Star defendants in the West Java Paramilitary police compound. The reference in the signature to FAAF, is the Free Association of Autonomous Fires. Fire To The Prisons!

Greetings to friends and to enemies alike,

Even now, the structures of power—ancient, rigid, and towering—continue to stand. Yet last August, people cracked the illusion of their invincibility. They showed that nothing is beyond transformation when our desires converge into a force capable of opening pathways toward the worlds we long to create.

We are individualists because we refuse the ideological fantasies of withered anarchists who preach like missionaries of a fading religion.

We are individualists because we believe in an anarchy of imagination—creative, diverse, unbound.

We are individualists who hold that nihilism is a concrete passage toward self-actualization, beyond the messianic dead-ends of dividing reality into “good” and “evil,” knowing full well the complexity of life cannot be squeezed into the decaying relics of Judeo-Christian doctrine—relics that should be buried like the myths of prophets and their fading gods.

We are individualists because we believe in the absolute autonomy of each person to shape the life they desire—yet we also believe in cooperation, in the equality of individuals who pursue their desires together. Our anti-social anarchy is an active refusal of the old values reproduced endlessly in everyday life.

At the same time we are bewildered, amused, and entertained by the foolish accusations hurled by some social anarchists who label us “purists” as if our rejection of organization were born of loyalty to some classical anarchist canon—an ideology drenched in Eurocentrism, streaked with the colonial residue of Western civilization, and infused with the Enlightenment’s humanism, the very root of authoritarian democracy. We reject all ideologies. The rebels of Paris Commune in 1871, the revolutionaries of Spain in 1936, the dreamers of Paris in 1968, and those of August 2025—all remind us of brief lives that were truly worth living beyond any ideologies.

From behind these walls and bars, we send a sharp wind toward every wild soul, reminding them that they are not alone against the repulsive realities engineered by the powerful.

The compass of anarchy draws us together at the threshold between free will and the will to power. We belong to no formal anarchist organization (spare us).

We are not part of impotent collectives like the PRISONERS’ UNION, (Serikat Tahanan) nor of any group that claims us for their own—much less the so-called anarchist movement with its church-like rigidity and archaic morality.

Toward the fusion of social and individual anarchy, and toward the negation of every radical movement that mirrors—or even surpasses—the mental and physical prisons of the state and capitalism!

This is an open letter to all anarchist of praxis. Fuck all idols, burn all radical bibles, and attack the enemy on all fronts.

FAAF and Individualist prisoners, West Java police prison, 1 December 2025.

Comments

palang hitam scam (not verified) Mon, 12/01/2025 - 17:20

This is a short response to publication titled "Letter from some imprisoned comrades from the ‘Chaos Star’ case (Indonesia)".

We are tired of this kind of sectarianism. Let them insult, debase, and so on, we will still embrace and support according to our capacity, as long as the persons in question deserves it. We don't look at what type of ideology—nor what kind of anarchism, especially—they believes in, as long it's not kind of fascism which against our value of humanity indeed.

With love, regards!
Serikat Tahanan / Prisoner Union,
from so-called Indonesia.

prisoners unio… (not verified) Tue, 12/02/2025 - 11:34

Serikat tahanan doesn't even exist, it's just a figment of Bimas imagination. There's no prisoners in that union. It's just Bimas way to suck funds from the west and spread lies about the egoists and nihilist s. The star of chaos prisoners hate this guy and mock him

When the pope died Bina wrote a text saying he was sad and that the pope was anarchists

I wipe my ass with bima and Serikat tahanan

anonymous (not verified) Tue, 12/02/2025 - 15:28

draining funds from westerners is healthy, it's probably the only use westerners can serve, but shit-talking nihilists is a deal breaker

conflict (not verified) Wed, 12/03/2025 - 00:27

Fuck Bima and his empty union. Fuck serikat Tahanan, they can't do anything.

Eat is facing 20 years and spent days being tortured. It is far from over. 50 + people are facing 5 years for riot, half a dozen people are looking at 20 years and above. There are no lawyers to defend the rioters. Without solidarity from abroad everyone will be in prison for a long time. The trials are a sham.

0x1312 Wed, 12/03/2025 - 06:15

I'm a part of Serikat Tahanan (ST). I know many of friends out there questioning about the validity of imprisoned ST's members. It's obvious their identity need to be protected, prevent the risk for them to get additional sentence for participated in a prisoner union or just for having a cellphone.

Yes, we deactivated our Instagram account at the end of last October, because several prisons where our friends were being held were visited by the authorities who asked about ST, including what Bima (Pustaka Catut) experienced.

And instead of continuing to attack us, it would be better if you reflected on track record of the person you guys praise, Eat, who is associated with violence, sexual assault, and embezzlement. You should also reflect, or perhaps admit, that Eat was arrested based on a confession among yourselves, which then he dragged in other names during interrogation, including a friend who have no any relation with the chaos because this friend was in prison (not a part of ST).

We also received reliable info that some of you were enjoying coffee, smoking and laughing along police officers without a single bruise on your faces or bodies.

Gavok (not verified) Sun, 12/07/2025 - 21:22

In reply to by 0x1312

You received 'reliable info' from your snitch friends and cops and you spread these lies on aarghnews to promote your dead, vacant, fake organisation. You are an attention seeking dickhead and a useful idiot for Densus.

Freedom for all the Chaos Stars

Fuck Densus - Fuck Bima

anonymous (not verified) Wed, 12/03/2025 - 11:55

Yay, individualist nihilists discarding all the Westerner and Orientalist ritual and religious ceremony and just being themselves in the Now, and not in some reincarnated eschatological heaven worshipping dieties and monarchist puppets, YAY!

anonymous (not verified) Wed, 12/03/2025 - 19:45

These comments look like mind-games being played by Densus 88 (Indonesia anti-terrorist unit), I'm surprized that @-news mods have left them up, but I guess it's their site and their perogative.

0x1312 Fri, 12/05/2025 - 07:17

In reply to by anonymous (not verified)

I thought PH/ABC recent publications are a mind game, as quite plausible circulating rumors said that its Instagram account was held by the police.

anonymous (not verified) Fri, 12/05/2025 - 08:17

In reply to by 0x1312

I always considered Meta and Google services to be the police station anyways, or at least a shopping mall under 24/7 police watch. So sorry that so many supposed anarchists (who turn out to be flaming ancoms 99% of the time) in these "developing countries" are relying on it as their prime channel of online comms... but are these for real? There's been sus people in every milieu actively pushing for these corporate services to be adopted as central means of mediation. I hope for them they at least got paid well for it.

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