section_path: Protests/Java/Surabaya
section_name: Surabaya
paragraph_text: Surabaya
  
  In Surabaya, the protests occurred before the building of the East Java Regional House of Representatives. The student protesters came from various local universities and numbered up to thousands. They burned a bier with inscription Indonesia Gelap after their attempts to meet the speaker of DPRD failed. Then, they attempted to cross the wire fence, and the police fired a water cannon at them. The protesters escaped, and several threw objects, such as water bottles, at policemen. Around 620 personnels were deployed for security during the protests. Head of the students' union of the Airlangga University, Aulia Thoriq Akbar, stated that five students have been reportedly arrested by the police. Two of them, each came from UNESA and UINSA (Sunan Ampel State Islamic University Surabaya), while head of operations Wibowo denied it. Novan Ziyan Ramadhan from the State University of Surabaya (UNESA) was injured after being stepped on and beaten up by policemen, as a result, the involved member has been reportedly questioned by the professional and security sector, although he denied it.
  
  Protests resumed in Surabaya on 21 February, and it was attended by both students and civilians. Two members of East Java DPRD from Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Fuad Bernardi and Yordan Batara Goa, were pettled with water bottles, after they met the protesters while in recess. They later burned used tires, reading a poem titled 'Taek', and feature a theatrical at the site.
  
  On 24 March 2025, hundreds of students with black clothing, arrived at Grahadi, the official residence of the governor of East Java at 02:00 p.m.. They carried various posters critical of the government and burned used tires on the road. The protest turned increasingly violent when the protesters started to throw away stones, firecrackers, plastic bottles, and other objects to the guards. One of them threw away a Molotov cocktail to the gate toward Grahadi. Around 1,100 personnel from Surabaya regional police were deployed during the event, and they forcefully dispersed the protesters at 06:00 p.m. with an armored car. Following the event, 25 people were arrested by the police (2 of them were students), and 6 policemen suffered injuries. The former chairman of the Surabaya branch of Indonesian National Student Movement (GMNI), Rizky Syahputra is among the injured victims, he suffered fracture on his left arm and laceration on the left leg. The protest also caused serious damage on nearby Apsari Garden, leaving thousands of plants destroyed and three lamps being lost.
  
  On 10 April, Surabaya regional police held a traffic engineering in preparation for a protest at Grahadi, planned to be held at 2:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. At the same time, dozens of participants wearing black clothing from Civil Society Coalition, began to hold a protest at Apsari Garden during rains at 2:45 p.m.