Jakarta – The reason why press freedom in Indonesia is under attack is because the government and news organizations often fail to protect journalists, according to press advocates on F

During the course of 2010 – 2011, the Indonesian Government has restricted the number of foreign journalists who are given access to enter Papua and report on the situation there.

Ismira Lutfia – The increasing concentration of Indonesian media in the hands of just a dozen holding companies poses a threat to people's right to information that is free of political

Anita Rachman – The media have historically been some of the most tenacious advocates of workers' rights, yet in one of the ironies of an increasingly independent and privatized nationa

A. Junaidi, Jakarta – A new study has revealed that only 12 groups of companies own almost all print, broadcast and online media in Indonesia.

Bambang Muryanto and Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – A number of local journalists from different media outlets staged a rally in front of the Gedung Agung state palace in Yogyakarta on We

Ulma Haryanto & Anita Rachman – The latest annual survey by a global media watchdog found that no journalists were killed in Indonesia last year, but identified a worryingly high nu

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Journalists Association believes that one of its members has been murdered despite the initial police investigation suggesting that he died in a traf

Media rights group Reporters Without Borders called on Indonesian authorities Saturday to put extra efforts into ensuring press freedom after a series of media freedom violations in the

Natasua Christy Wahyuni, Farouk Arnaz & Rizky Amelia – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday reminded the media of its responsibility to safeguard the integrity of journali

Jakarta – The country's leading journalist organizations have expressed doubt over the credibility of a report by the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RWB), which puts Indonesia a

Anita Rachman – If violence and intimidation was the order of the day for Indonesia's journalists in 2011, this year is shaping up to be no better, press freedom advocates and pundits c

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Many provinces across Indonesia have not properly implemented the Public Information Law, which was enacted in 2010, Public Information Commission (KIP) c

Anita Rachman – Press freedom has declined again in Indonesia over the past year, according to Reporters Without Borders, which released its 10th annual press freedom index on Wednesday

Dozens of journalists rallied outside the Trenggalek Police headquarters in East Java on Tuesday to protest the assault of a colleague by a civil servant on Friday.

Anita Rachman – With several rape and sexual assault cases dominating the news recently, a crucial question has so far been given little attention: Is media coverage of the cases proper

Sleman, Yogyakarta – Outspoken Indonesian government critic George Junus Aditjondro is facing up to four years in jail for allegedly insulting the Yogyakarta royal family.

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Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Another violent incident against a journalist has been reported in Rote-Ndao, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), with an alleged abduction of a female reporter over her

Dessy Sagita & Fitri – Another journalist said she received death threats after writing about evidence of government corruption in Rote Ndao district, East Nusa Tenggara.

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Journalist Dance Henukh, whose house was destroyed by a group of people allegedly as backlash for his news report on graft cases, says that he was intimidated

Camelia Pasandaran & Rahmat – The mob attack on a journalist's home that reportedly led to his newborn daughter dying of shock has been denounced as an inhumane act by his peers.

Jakarta – As political parties prepare for the 2014 general elections, many have started to project their presence through advertisements running in the media, raising suspicions that s

Elisabeth Oktofani – Danu Pratama (not his real name) has worked as a journalist for nearly seven years, covering beats ranging from technology and politics to human rights and legal is

Jakarta – United Development Party (PPP) secretary-general M.

Jakarta – The Communication and Information Technology Ministry has announced plans to begin screening media following an earlier finding that media reporting was prone to misinformatio

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – As one of the largest democracies in Asia, Indonesia has yet to ensure its citizens access to information, with lawmakers and the government devising legislation

Banjir Ambarita – Two journalists in Manokwari, West Papua, reported the district attorney to the police on Friday for sending them death threats by text message, a charge the accused d

Dozens of journalists demonstrated in Manokwari to protest against the beating of a colleague, Duma Tato Sanda, a journalist working for Cahaya Papua, who was beaten up by workers of Fr

Simon Caterson – For local journalists in East Timor, breaking the news could mean being broken themselves.

Anita Rachman – Eighty percent of Papuans live in the approximately 3,000 kampongs spread across the country's largest province, so any meaningful understanding of how Papuans live must

Samantha Michaels – Despite efforts to protect journalists, freedom of the press sits on shaky ground in Indonesia, according to two writers honored last week for their courage in the f

Jayapura – Mufriadi, a journalist with TOP TV Papua, was reportedly beaten by the South Sorong regent while he was covering a rally involving local residents outside of the regency admi

Once again, violence has been used in Papua, this time against a television journalist working for the local TV station in South Sorong, TOP TV.

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Rote Ndao regent Leonard Haning has banned three local journalists from the regency following the publication of "biased and imbalanced news articles".

Jakarta – The Alliance of Indonesian Journalists (AJI) Yogyakarta protested the Yogyakarta City Police's decision to close the murder case of journalist Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin, known

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Fifteen years on, the mystery shrouding the murder of journalist Fuad Muhammad Syafrudin, aka Udin, has yet to be lifted.

Jakarta – A lawmaker is criticizing a hotel owner's recent attack on a journalist for apparently generating bad publicity, saying that violence has become a viable option in resolving p

The latest regulation by the Justice and Human Right's Ministry which bans journalists from entering prisons has come under scrutiny from the Press Council.

Press council chief Bagir Manan asked the police to pay serious attention to investigating the assault of a Tempo TV journalist last week.

Ismira Lutfia – The Press Council on Tuesday questioned President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's commitment to safeguarding press freedom in Indonesia, in light of his statement that his pa

Prita Mulyasari has been sentenced to six months in jail, suspended for one year, after the Supreme Court controversially found her guilty of libeling privately owned Omni International

Elisabeth Oktofani – Tangerang mother Prita Mulyasari, facing jail time after the Supreme Court found her guilty of libel, said she did not understand why law enforcers were so eager to

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) says it will bring the libel case implicating Prita Mulyasari to the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Frank LA Rue d

Faisal Maliki Baskoro & Rangga Prokoso – Two years after Prita Mulyasari, a mother of three from Tangerang, was first detained for supposedly defaming an upscale hospital, and after

Jakarta – The Independent Journalists Alliance (AJI) bestowed the Udin Award, an award for journalists who have become victims of violence due to their work, to a Sun TV correspondent,

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Activists warn that the national security bill, currently being deliberated at the House of Representatives, has the potential to threaten freedom of the

The release on June 25 of Erwin Arnada, the former editor of Indonesia's ill-fated edition of Playboy Magazine after serving nine months in prison for outraging public decency, closes a

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-120-2011

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Elisabeth Oktofani – The former editor of the short-lived Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine has said his release from prison marks a victory for press freedom in the country.