section_path: Protests/Overseas
section_name: Overseas
paragraph_text: Overseas
  
  The earlier overseas protest were organised by group of Indonesian students studying at Columbia University in New York City under the name of Jong Columbia on 21 February from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. in New Residence Hall, Teachers College, Columbia University which gathered more than 100 students. At the same time the leaders of Indonesian Students Union in Japan, Malaysia, and The Netherlands published an open letter expressing their solidarity with the student union protesters back home. The Indonesian diaspora in Germany has planned for solidarity protests at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin on 1 March. Meanwhile on the same date, the Indonesian diaspora in Australia organised solidarity protests at the State Library Victoria, Melbourne, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Indonesian students in Columbia University would later return to protest against the revision of Armed Forces law in front of Teachers College.