I am embarrassingly uneducated about the region. Please help me be slightly less ignorant.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Student protests happen all the time.

    Why did Bangladesh experience a full government capitulation, whereas Indonesia a couple years ago did not?

    There are external factors that play a huge role here.

    • Magjee [any]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      Students had tried doing small tasks like organizing traffic a few years ago, they were cracked down on and it worked in Bangledesh

      The fear was that they would go from volunteering to correct the flow of traffic to organizing for something political

       

      This time the students were successful

      I’m not saying there are no external forces at play, but the domestic desires appear to have been the major force here

       

      Sadly now, there are numerous groups attempting to manage the chaos and come out on top, while the poor and weak suffer