Everything that hinders or hinders the accumulation of capital will simply be removed in order to make way for making profits. The new buildings that were built were more forthe prestige and promotion of the campus, collecting funds from companies that oppress the people. Campus facilities are also used to benefit from weddings, parties and music concerts. Meanwhile, small traders were evicted from the campus because apart from being considered not to provide significant profit for the campus bureaucrats, they were also considered a hindrance to the campus' luxurious image and 'international standard'. Thus the movement of exploitation, accumulation and expansion of capital is now becoming more obvious and indiscriminate in the world of Indonesian education.
Interests Capitalist on campuses are also against democracy. Campus bureaucrats only tolerate activities that can enhance the image and prestige of the campus, such as those based on interests and talents. But suppressing space and activities with critical content and social issues. Because of this, campus bureaucrats are increasingly massively suppressing democracy, such as disbanding discussion events, film reviews, seminars, and banning the student press, including intimidating and criminalizing. Especially to students, workers and lecturers or their organizations who are fighting for their rights. If necessary, the campus bureaucracy cooperates with reactionary groups or state apparatus.
This situation resulted in what Ernest Mandel called in his speech to the International Council of the Revolutionary Student Movement in 1968 that students became "a kind of proletariat in universities". These students “… have no right to participate in determining the curriculum, no right, at least to determine their own lives during the four, five or six years they spend at university.” In fact, they “are not allowed to choose careers, fields of study and disciplines that they want and relate to their skills and needs. They will be forced to accept jobs, disciplines and fields of study that are related to the interests of the rulers of capitalist society, and not related to their needs as human beings.”
Therefore, the demands that we put forward are: (1) Education is free, scientific, democratic and has a people's vision. This means that we do not demand modifications or improvements to the UKT system or demand scholarships. The national education system means that all policies, schemes, methods, procedures, etc. must be structured and organized in a neat and systematic manner with free, scientific, democratic principles and a people's vision.
Free, meaning that our demand is that all operational costs of education are fully funded by the state and that access is accessible to anyone from the lowest level to tertiary education in both urban and rural areas. Even the cost of living allowance is given to students with family backgrounds of working people or poor people.
Scientific means oriented to disseminate, instill, and encourage the advancement of science. Thus able to improve the thinking and life of the people. This scholarship is also useful for freeing the people from the shackles of superstition, mysticism, patronage, and dogmatism left over from the past as well as feudal culture as well as fighting reactionary ideas and thoughts such as sexism, racism, homophobia, fascism, and other ideas and thoughts that grow out of a system of oppression. .
Democratic means that education is for all people without exception by guaranteeing the fulfillment of all their democratic rights in education. This means that the people have full access to participate in education. Not only in receiving education but also involved in the process of making educational policies. The people, both students (students and students) and parents/guardians of students, educators, and workers in the area of educational institutions are placed in an equal position in the field of education. There is a democratic space on campus for association, discussion, and expressing opinions. We also reject all forms of intimidation, dispersal or criminalization.
Having a populist vision means that education is fully directed towards liberation and solving people's problems. Not for the pursuit of personal gain or the owners of capital. All policies in the field of education are made and implemented with partiality and in accordance with the interests of the people. Education respects and fights for understanding, appreciation, and protection of Human Rights (HAM).
(2) Eliminate contract work and outsourcing systems. This includes any opaque working relationships within the campus. Such as working relationships based on the seniority of lecturers, professors or researchers. (3) Decent Wages and Job Guarantee for All Education Workers As a substitute for the previous inhumane working relationship, all education workers from lecturers, administration, researchers to security guards and cleaning workers must be appointed as permanent workers with decent wages and working conditions.
But to win this demand cannot be without solving the problem of unity and the struggle against sectarianism. Oppression and capitalistic exploitation demand the unification of all the forces of the workers and the people. Labor unions, lecturers and students within campuses, between campuses, and even extra campuses.
But there was disease in the student movement and in the bourgeois intellectual world in general. Its reductionist tendency is to break everything down into homogeneous units. Separating science from politics, from the problem of taking sides with the working class and oppressed people. Separating theory from practice and involvement in struggle organizations. He considers himself, whether a student or a lecturer, to be separate or not experiencing the same oppression as other campus workers. They even feel as begawan, who are better than campus workers, common people or also better than students and lecturers from other campuses. In the student movement we are familiar with the concepts of moral movement and sectarianism. Where students consider themselves as hermits who come down from the mountain when there is a problem. Solving the problem then selflessly, without help (refusing unity) from anyone and then returning to his hermitage.
