Jakarta – The Press Council is calling for better protection for journalists in Indonesia to mark World Press Freedom Day, which falls every May 3.

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Widodo Putro and Ward Berenschot – In 2011, the village of Kadangmas in Kudus District, East Java, was designated as the site of a large water reservoir.

Jayapura – Members of European Union parliament urged Indonesia to allow independent observers including those from the EU and the United Nations to monitor elections in Papua.

Jose Belo, Timor-Leste's celebrated champion of investigative journalism and advocate for a free media, recently vowed he was prepared to go to jail rather than allow his fledgling inde

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The daughter of former president Soeharto, Siti Hardiyanti "Tutut" Rukmana, on Monday filed a police report against media mogul and Hanura Party vice-preside

Mong Palatino – To allegedly protect the rights of media practitioners, the government of East Timor is proposing a media law that is now being deliberated in the parliament.

Lindsay Murdoch – Jose Belo was shackled, hung upside down, electrocuted, beaten, burnt and jailed for three years in the mid-1990s because of his resistance to Indonesia's brutal occup

East Timor's journalists' union has criticised the country's proposed media laws for being too restrictive on journalists.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Post ranked second on a list of Indonesia's most popular newspapers compiled by 4 International Media and Newspaper, as published on its website www.4imn.com.

Yogyakarta – A solidarity rally was organized in Yogyakarta on Tuesday as a mark of protest against an incident in which a petrol bomb was thrown at the house of Frietqi Suryawan, a jou

Mong Palatino – East Timor journalists and human rights groups are opposing a government-proposed media law which they believe would lead to possible media censorship and repression in

Simon Roughneen – A proposed new media code in Timor-Leste is raising hackles among the country's press, who see an attempt to impose curbs on journalists and criminalise transgressions

Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has pulled two television shows off the air amid complaints that the programs clearly favored the party of owner and vice presiden

David Robie, Auckland (Cafe Pacific/Pacific Media Watch): Timor-Leste Press Club has this week transformed itself into the fledgling Timor-Leste Press Union and now seeks to become affi

David Robie – The proposed Timor-Leste media law is a draconian mixed bag.

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – A group of civil society organizations, called the Frequency Belongs to the Public (FMP), plans to take the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) to court as

Auckland (Green Party/Pacific Media Watch) – The Green Party is calling on the New Zealand government to end their $6.3 million police training programme in West Papua in light of new e

Hariet Conron – At the launch of its 2014 World Report on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch called on the government to lift the ban on foreign journalists entering the volatile provinces o

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – A civil society group has started a movement to empower the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) to get tough on private television stations promoting the i

Jayapura – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Papua says violence against journalists doubled in 2013 from the previous year.

Jayapura – Throughout the year 2013, in the records Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Jayapura city occurred 20 cases of intimidation and violence against journalists in Papua.

A Canadian man who cycled around the world to raise awareness of human rights abuses in West Papua says Indonesian media outlets have insulted him by distorting comments he made about p

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Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A team of lawyers from the Association of Indonesian Journalists (PWI) Yogyakarta branch blasted the Yogyakarta Police's tardy 17-year investigation into

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The lawyer for the Indonesian Journalist Association (PWI) blasted the police's lackluster investigation into the death of Bernas newspaper journalist Muh

A former Chief Editor of the Jakarta Post says restrictions on foreign media visiting the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua should be lifted.

David Robie, Dili – While the Timor-Leste media industry was rejuvenated by a national congress last month that voted on a new code of ethics, one of the country's most independent chie

Journalists in Indonesia have called on the Government to clarify rules for journalists wanting to visit the provinces of Papua and West Papua.

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The President of the Alliance of Independent Journalists of Indonesia says his government should clarify the rules for foreign journalists seeking to visit West Papua.

An Indonesian parliamentarian, Eva Sundari, says there should be no restriction for foreign journalists wanting to go to Papua.

Australian RWB correspondent Mark Pearson tells us about an historic congress of Timor Leste journalists which was held in Dili from 25 to 27 October.

An historic congress of Timor-Leste journalists held in Dili recently voted for their first code of ethics and a seven-member press council.

Daniel Drageset – A petition to revoke the ban on media reporting from West Papua has been initiated by press freedom groups.

Yogyakarta – State Owned Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan gave money to students attending a seminar on journalistic ethics.

Tom Benner, Dili, East Timor – Media in this young democracy in Southeast Asia suffer from a lack of professionalism, accuracy, and ethics, argue proponents of new legislation that woul

Michael Bachelard – Fresh hope that Indonesia would allow foreign journalists and observers freely into its most troubled province, West Papua, appear to be unfounded.

West Papua is now open to foreign journalists and NGOs, according to Papuan governor Lukas Enembe, who has promised to allow reporters into the region for the first time in years.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Papua Governor Lukas Enembe promised to open the region up to foreign journalists and NGOS on Wednesday, guaranteeing their safety as they visit the restive

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has started working on amending Law No.

Jakarta – The Democratic Party leadership has called on the General Elections Monitoring Body (Bawaslu) to be lenient on the party for forcing state-owned television station TVRI to air

Ina Parlina, Dili, Timor Leste – Tito Filipe, 30, started as a reporter in Dili, Timor Leste, when he was 21 just after he finished high school.

Jakarta – Journalists from Indonesia and Timor Leste are expected to help forge partnership between the former foes, according to a bilateral dialogue.

Jakarta – The Health Ministry is supporting the move by local administrations – including Sabang city in Aceh – to make it a requirement for high school students to record the shape and

Jakarta – In a move that has surprised many, the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has named the Indonesian Military (TNI) as press enemy number one this year.

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Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Activists are demanding the police solve the 17-year-old case of murdered Yogyakarta journalist Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin, widely known as Udin, before it mu

Slamet Susanto and Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Slain journalist Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin alias Udin, who was murdered 17 years ago allegedly because of his reports, was named a natio

Jakarta – Rights activists in Yogyakarta have urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to instruct the police to get to the bottom of the murder of Bernas Daily journalist Fuad Muhammad