Ismira Lutfia – Ahead of an expected revision to the Broadcasting Law, a coalition of media watchdogs has lashed out at the government and regulators for allowing television station own

Ismira Lutfia – The widow of slain Sun TV journalist Ridwan Salamun has lobbied the Press Council and the Judicial Commission for justice following the acquittal earlier this month of t

Nivell Rayda – The Alliance of Independent Journalists has condemned the apparent terrorist attack on Liberal Islamic Network co-founder Ulil Abshar Abdalla, calling it "a brutal assaul

Rahmat & Ismira Lutfia, Makassar – Journalists in Makassar and Jakarta demanded justice on Thursday for two colleagues killed in Maluku in separate incidents.

Ina Parlina – The acquittal of three suspects in the death of a journalist in Maluku is "shocking" and ignored eyewitness testimony, according to activists.

Heru Andriyanto & Ismira Lutfia – Three men were acquitted on Wednesday of the murder of a TV journalist in Maluku, prompting protests from media observers.

Heru Andriyanto – The Press Council is warning that misleading information in the investigation into the murder of a television journalist have caused prosecutors to demand a much too l

Jakarta – International rights group Amnesty International has strongly urged the Indonesian government to promptly investigate the stabbing of journalist Banjir Ambarita, which took pl

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An Indonesian journalist has sustained minor injuries to his arm after being beaten by a police officer in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, on Wednesday.

Papua journalist Banjir Ambarita, was stabbed by unknown assailants in Jayapura on Wednesday night.

Ismira Lutfia – The Press Council is appealing to media companies to better champion the safety of their journalists covering risky beats in the wake of what it deemed was injustice in

Anita Rachman & Ismira Lutfia – Despite a massive backlash, Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam on Wednesday stood by his call to boycott certain media organizations and added that he was r

Camelia Pasandaran, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman – Bogor – Very few among the nation's leaders seem to share Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam's views of media organizations c

Ismira Lutfia & Dessy Sagita – Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam's call for government institutions to implement an advertising boycott on media organizations deemed too critical of the a

Candra Malik, Yogyakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists lambasted a military court over its decision to sentence a former district military chief to just four months in priso

Ismira Lutfia& Banjir Ambarita – The appallingly low wages paid to the majority of journalists in Indonesia may cause some to compromise their professionalism, the Alliance of Indep

Ismira Lutfia – Three nongovernmental organizations have joined the chorus of voices calling for the courts to overturn the indecency conviction of Playboy Indonesia editor Erwin Arnada

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Central Information Commission (KIP) ordered the National Police on Tuesday to disclose deposit information for 17 bank accounts held by high-ranking police o

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – An NGO lodged a complaint to the Central Information Commission (KIP) on Thursday regarding the rejection of 37 state bodies to disclose documents on budget

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – A military prosecutor has lowered his demand for punishment from five years to less than 10 months in jail for a former intelligence officer who attacked a jo

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – A team of independent investigators from the Maluku Media Center claims to have found proof of police involvement in the suspected murder of a journalist in the

Dessy Sagita – Police in Palu, Central Sulawesi, have yet to name any suspects in last week's violent attack on the office of a journalists' association in apparent retribution for a cr

Ismira Lutfia – Despite praise from other countries for progress made in democratization, the press in Indonesia ended 2010 on a somber note.

Jakarta – Two journalists were injured when a group of men attacked their newsroom in Palu, Central Sulawesi, on Thursday.

Jakarta – Journalists continued to work under grave threat of violence in 2010 with four journalists reportedly murdered and two media outlet offices assaulted this year.

Nurdin Hasan & Ismira Lutfia, Banda Aceh – An Indonesian military tribunal on Friday began the trial of a former intelligence officer who allegedly attacked a journalist and threate

Jakarta – Alfrets Mirulewan, chief editor of Pelangi Weekly in Maluku, was found dead with bruises on a large part of his body on Thursday evening.

Judicial bodies are still reluctant to uphold citizen's rights to access public information, a study says.

Jakarta – Co-founder of Islam Liberal Network Luthfi Assyaukanie expressed his concern on the decline of press freedom in Indonesia.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has stopped publishing online reports, to the dismay of freedom of information proponents.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Two years after the Freedom of Information Law was passed, the vast majority of state institutions have still not complied by making their budget imp

Ismira Lutfia & Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie on Wednesday reported a number of Indonesian media organizations to the Press Council for allegedly def

Jakarta – A number of journalists were threatened, and several others were attacked, while reporting on a Indonesian migrant workers' shelter in Condet, East Jakarta, on Tuesday.

Jakarta – Golkar Chairman Aburizal Bakrie has reported a number of Indonesian media organizations to the Press Council, alleging defamation.

Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – Police investigating the July assault of an anticorruption researcher have ruled out personal motives, lending credence to allegations that he was targeted as a re

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The government should allow people to use their own judgment in avoiding Web sites deemed offensive, rather than impose curbs that threaten free speech, media e

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Nivell Rayda & Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Ignatius Haryanto, the author of a number of books on press freedom, knows that a police investigation has concluded there was no foul play i

Jakarta – Member groups of the Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations expressed their deep concern on Friday over the continued persecution of Erwin Arnada, the former ch

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – Indonesia's press freedom ranking slipped this year to 117th from 100th place last year, according to a survey by Paris-based civil society group Reporters W

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The thorny question of censorship has kept the Attorney General's Office busy in the past year.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – In a move condemned by critics as totalitarian, the government announced plans to bar the sales of certain books, just days after the Constitutional Co

Jakarta – The Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (Elsam) called on the government Thursday to immediately take measures to implement the Constitutional Court's ruling, which res

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Gone are the days when authors in the country had to live in fear of seeing their books outlawed by the government, thanks to a watershed court ruling

Camelia Pasandaran, Heru Andriyanto & Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – In a landmark verdict, the Constitutional Court on Wednesday struck out a law that gave the Attorney General's Office

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Supreme Court have found in favor of Indonesian mother-of-two Prita Mulyasari, striking out a lower court ruling that she pay Omni International Hospital

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A media watchdog has urged the House of Representatives to repeal a law giving the government absolute power to ban certain books, saying it curtails

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Indonesia observes the anniversary of the death of seven generals in the 1965 abortive coup, that led to a pogrom against hundreds of thousands of alle

Jakarta – The House of Representatives urged the government on Tuesday to establish information commission offices across Indonesia in efforts to preserve national unity.