Indonesia's freedom of expression and critical thinking are under attack.

Gorontalo – The Gorontalo District Court has sentenced Gorontalo governor Rusli Habibie to eight months in jail after being found guilty in a defamation case filed by former Gorontalo Police chief

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Defying public pressure, the North Maluku Police have reiterated that they will continue their investigation into alleged defamation by a local activist who uploaded to

Jakarta – The police in Ternate have ignored public outcry and demands for the release of Adlun Fiqri, a student arrested for uploading a video of a police officer accepting money from a road-rules

Jakarta – Police in Ternate, North Maluku, triggered a firestorm of outrage on social media after arresting and charging a university student for slander after he uploaded a video on YouTube purpor

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Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has warned President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo not to mess with freedom of speech and expression and not to take the country back to the days of S

Jakarta – Head of the Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) Neta S.Pane said an article on libel or defamation against the President did not need to be included in the draft of the Criminal Code bill being

Jakarta – The government should not be worried about protecting the honor of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo as the President can still sue anyone that slanders him under the current Criminal Code (

Jakarta – A bid by the Indonesian government to revive an authoritarian-era law that makes insulting the president a crime sparked outrage Thursday, with thousands taking to social media to denounc

Ina Parlina and Arya Dipa, Bandung/Bogor – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Wednesday that he supported the government's proposal to reinstate insulting the president as a criminal offense, a

Jakarta – Indonesian Justice Minister Yasonna Laoly has defended the government's bid to revive an article on defamation against the president through an amendment to the country's Criminal Code, s

Jakarta – The government is seeking to restore defamation of the president as a criminal offense, a provision that had been removed from the Criminal Code (KUHP).

Jakarta – In the current era of easily accessible information, the Indonesian government needs to keep an eye on the media, the recently appointed head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) said a

Haeril Halim, National – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has lashed out at the National Police for questioning two of its activists about remarks that allegedly defamed a senior legal expert from

Jayapura, Jubi – At around 11:50 Papua time, police disbanded a gathering of activists at the secretariat of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) and Regional People Parliament (PRD) in Merauke

Jakarta – Amnesty International is calling on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to take immediate steps to end the Indonesian security forces' increasing attacks on freedom of expression in the countr

Amnesty International calls on President Joko Widodo to take immediate steps to end Indonesian security forces' increasing attacks on freedom of expression in the country's Papuan regio

Jakarta – The National Police say they are going to work with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology to block Indonesia-based websites facilitating prostitution."We will come up w

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Rights activists representing several nongovernmental organizations slammed the government's recent move to block dozens of Islamic websites allegedly containing radical conte

Arya Dipa, Bandung – A 47-year-old woman who was recently sentenced to five months imprisonment for pornographic chatting with her childhood friend in Bandung is appealing to the West Java High Cou

Jakarta – The government's move to block several websites believed to promote extremist Islamic teaching has triggered a backlash among some members of Indonesia's Muslim community, who have accuse

Haeril Halim and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Responding to public outcry accusing the government of infringing free speech rights, the Communications and Information Ministry reopened on Tuesday

Yuli Krisna, Bandung/Yogyakarta – Two Indonesian women on Tuesday were sentenced to months in prison for violating Indonesia's notorious 2008 Electronic Information and Transaction (ITE) law.

Jakarta – Indonesian poet Saut Situmorang was taken by three Jakarta Police officers from his Yogyakarta home to testify in a libel case, his friends said on Thursday.

Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin said on Thursday that the media could uphold free speech while still respecting the religious codes, including the Islamic injunction aga

Indra Budiari and Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have handed over a blasphemy case implicating The Jakarta Post editor-in-chief Meidyatama Suryodiningrat to the Press Council.

Slamet Susanto and Bambang Muryanto, Bantul, Yogyakarta – The sounds of people crying and sobbing as well as applause filled Bantul district courtroom after presiding judge Sulistyo M.

The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) regrets and condemns recent incidents around the country in which film screenings of the film Senyap (The Look of Silence) have been closed down by

Makassar – A civil servant, identified as Fadhli Rahim, 33, has been detained and brought on trial for criticizing Gowa regent Ichsan Yasin through social media Line.

Gorontalo – Banned in several places in Yogyakarta and other cities, the Senyap (Look of the Silence) film directed by filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer was screened on Monday night at the S

Yogyakarta – A screening of Senyap (The Look of Silence) that was planned for Sunday at the Yogyakarta Institute of Technology campus was canceled due to the threat of an act of religio

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Years into the Reform era, representatives from international and regional freedom of expression organizations – grouped under the International Partnershi

Addi Mawahibun Idhom, Yogyakarta – The rector of Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta, Dwikorita Karnawati, is protesting the forced cancelation of a scre

Ari Susanto, Yogyakarta – A screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Look of Silence" documentary on Indonesia's communist purge of 1965-66 at Gadjah Mada University's School of Social an

Prosecutors demanded a panel of judges at the Bantul District Court to sentence Ervani Emy Handayani, 29, who stands accused of making defamatory comments on Facebook, to five months in

Bambang Muryanto and Ainur Rohmah, Yogyakarta/Semarang – The Alliance of Independent Journalists' (AJI) Yogyakarta branch has postponed the screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's Senyap (Loc

Jakarta – A number of civil society groups have warned the nation about the dangers of criminalizing the press, saying the practice could be used by the state as a tool to silence perso

Jakarta – The Independent Journalists Alliance (AJI) has condemned the fact that police have charged The Jakarta Post's editor-in-chief Meidyatama Suryodiningrat with blasphemy over a c

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, Malang, East Java – Military officials in Malang have blocked public screenings of the documentary "The Look of Silence" by award-winning filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer

Slamet Susanto, Bantul – Ervani Emy Handayani, a 29-year-old woman arrested for expressing disappointment over her husband's dismissal on her Facebook account, is at liberty, the Bantul

Yuliasri Perdani and Ainur Rohmah, Jakarta/Semarang – Rights and democracy activists have called on the government to scrap the articles on defamation in the 2008 Electronic Information

Yuliasri Perdani and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The National Police on Monday suspended the detention of Muhammad Arsyad, who stands accused of defaming President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, but

SP/Mikael Niman & Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The Jakarta resident who allegedly superimposed an image of President Joko Widodo's face on pornographic photos was released on bail on Mon

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has forgiven Muhammad Arsyad, a satay vendor who was detained by the police for allegedly defaming him online.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Gerindra Party politician and deputy speaker in the House of Representatives, Fadli Zon, has joined the legal battle to defend Muhammad Arsyad, a satay vendo

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Ervani Emihandayani, 28, has been detained at the Wirogunan detention center in Yogyakarta since Wednesday for posting comments on her Facebook account co

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The National Police on Thursday reiterated their commitment to continuing an investigation into a small-time worker in East Jakarta, who stands accused of po

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – A small-time worker in East Jakarta has been arrested for allegedly posting a doctored pornographic picture which bears the faces of President Joko "Jokowi"

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Yogyakarta Police banned a media literacy workshop about Islamic fundamentalism scheduled to be held on Friday morning after threats were circulated by an