Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said he backed the police's decision to restrict events of an anti-Jokowi movement known under its Twitter handle #2019GantiPresiden (Change the

Jakarta – The National Police have instructed their intelligence and security directors at the provincial level to monitor the declaration of presidential candidate campaign events usin

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – Police have nabbed a man for allegedly defaming Batak people, one of North Sumatra's ethnic groups, on social media following a tense gubernatori

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Michelle Winowatan – Dozens of Indonesian military and police personnel raided a student dormitory in Surabaya on July 6 to stop the screening of a documentary about security force atro

Jakarta – The Surabaya Legal Aid Institute (LBH) has reported local security personnel to the East Java Police for allegedly committing unethical acts during a raid at a Papuan student

Sheany, Jakarta – The Surabaya Legal Aid Institute, or LBH Surabaya, has called on the East Java Police to investigate violence exercised by its officers who dispersed a meeting hosted

Jakarta – Pro-democracy activists held an event campaigning for freedom of expression and assembly over the weekend, amid recent reports that public discussions were being dispersed eit

Pebriansyah Ariefana – The situation remains tense at the Papuan student dormitory on Jl.

Pebriansyah Ariefana – Tambaksari police have revealed that police and military officers raided a Papuan student dormitory in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya on July 6 beca

West Papuan students in the Indonesian city of Malang say police forcefully stopped them discussing an important date in their people's history.

Joe Cochrane, Jakarta, Indonesia – Yanto Awerkion knew quite well that he would infuriate the local Indonesian authorities for organizing a meeting to discuss a petition for an independ

Jakarta – Jakarta Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy who threatened to shoot President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in a video that has gone viral.

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office Intelligence Team in collaboration with the Central Jakarta District Attorney Team has arrested the Editor in Chief of Obor Rakyat

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have vowed to strictly enforce a ban on political activities at the Sunday morning Car Free Day (CFD) events and to take stern action against violators.

An Indonesian was jailed for five years Monday for a Facebook post deemed offensive to Islam, his lawyer said, the latest conviction under the country's controversial electronic informa

Jakarta – A community organization has set up a post that aims to collect reports of intimidation during Car Free Day in Central Jakarta.

The 2019 presidential election is exactly a year away this month.

Friski Riana, Jakarta – The community supporting for a presidential turnover in the upcoming election, known by its hashtag #2019GantiPresiden, has cancelled its plan to hold a Sunday r

Facebook has censored a West Papuan image by a Vanuatu-based photojournalist for the second time in less than four days – this time "within one minute" after the photograph was posted.

Jakarta – The recent misuse of data belonging to tens of millions of Facebook users has shown that Indonesian netizens must improve their awareness on data privacy, a digital rights gro

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Indonesia's constitutional court to overturn an article in a new law under which anyone, including journalists, could be prosecuted and jailed i

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – Tubagus Hasanuddin and Anton Charliyan, the West Java governor and deputy governor candidates nominated by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (P

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Pianist Ananda Sukarlan requested assistance from the Legal Aid Institute for Ansor Youth Movement (LBH GP) after he was reported by the Deputy Speaker of the Hous

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Local authorities in Yogyakarta barred an art exhibition initiated by a group of activists protesting of the construction of a new airport in Kulonprogo r

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Amid widespread reports of legal persecution under the draconian Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law, a district court in Poso, Central Sulawesi

Concerns that the Indonesian government will keep using the country's draconian Information and Electronic Transactions Act (UU ITE) to silence critics seem unlikely to be addressed thi

Jakarta – The National Police's Criminal Investigation Department arrested a doctor in West Sumatra on Friday afternoon for allegedly spreading hate speech on her Facebook account.

Rizieq Shihab, the founder and leader of the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) remains a fugitive from Indonesian law hiding in Saudi Arabia, even after being named "high priest of the Indones

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned about the following situation. Mr.

Throughout the epic legal drama between Indonesia's House Speaker Setya Novanto and the Corruption Eradication Committee (KPK) over the senior politician's role in the massive e-KTP corruption case

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – The National Police have arrested a man over alleged hate speech and insults against President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, First Lady Iriana and other national figures.

Indonesians love latching onto a good meme, especially ones which allow them to obliquely make fun of the powerful elites whom many dare not criticize directly.

Erin Cook, Jakarta – Indonesia's House of Representatives speaker and Golkar Party chairman Setya Novanto has managed once again to dodge liability in one of the country's biggest ever corruption c

Andreas Harsono – Dyann Kemala Arrizzqi's Instagram feed is filled with her travel photos, demonstrations of her prowess at traditional Balinese dance poses, and wry memes.

News that the Jakarta police had arrested a woman on Tuesday for allegedly spreading "defamatory" memes about House Speaker Setya Novanto, who is infamous for dodging corruption charges throughout

Jakarta – Police have arrested a woman suspected of distributing online content deemed defamatory to House of Representatives Speaker and Golkar chairman Setya Novanto.

The photo purporting to show Setya Novanto receiving intensive care at Jatinegara Premier Hospital spawned a meme that has now led to at least one arrest.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) condemns the attacks against the right to freedom of expression, opinion and peaceful assembly that have occurred frequently over the past year in Indonesia

Mong Palatino of Global Voices – Indonesian police in East Java are investigating a veteran journalist for comparing former President Megawati Sukarnoputri to Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi in a Facebo

Jakarta – Investigative journalist Dandhy Dwi Laksono has been reported by the youth wing of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDI-P, to the East Java Police for allegedly insulting f

Jakarta – The owner of a Padang restaurant in Central Jakarta reported the uploader of a video, showing a bouncing rice ball, to the police for defamation.

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The Indonesian government has again rejected claims that rights to the freedom of expression and assembly are restricted in Papua region.

Scores of people from the Pancasila Youth (PP) paramilitary group have shut down a film showing and discussion about radical poet Wiji Thukul at the Lintas Kemukus Retreat in Sirau Village, Padurak

Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have completed a case dossier on a standup comedian who complained about Green Pramuka City apartments in Cempaka Putih and will submit the file to the C

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Semarang – The University of Semarang (Unnes) in Central Java has reported two of its students to police for committing satire after they criticized Technology, Research and

Indonesian authorities have imposed a travel ban on tycoon and politician Hary Tanoesoedibjo, who is building resorts to be managed by Trump hotels, over an investigation into allegations he threat

Jakarta – The National Police officially named businessman-cum-politician Hary Tanoesoedibjo a suspect on Friday for allegedly intimidating an Attorney General's Office (AGO) official last year.

Jakarta – The National Police cyber crime unit has arrested a 45-year-old man using the YouTube account, 'Professor' Tamim Pardede, in Tangerang, Banten for allegedly posting videos containing hate