Nivell Rayda – Local members of the media have condemned Tuesday's detention of two French journalists in Papua, saying the move undermined freedom of the press.

Anita Rachman – Seeking a media outlet free of the chains of corporate ownership, a group of journalists is planning to develop a Web site that will carry stories conventional news orga

Ismira Lutfia – The threat of going to jail or under-going a lengthy prosecution under the country's criminal-defamation laws may be pushing journalists to censor themselves.

Jakarta – Prita Mulyasari, Khoe Seng Seng and Tukijo are ordinary people who have been branded criminals under the defamation law simply because they complained, a human rights report s

Ismira Lutfia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Indonesia's credentials as a democratic success story are under threat from a worrying trend toward litigation in response to free speech

Jakarta – Indonesian journalists took the opportunity of Press Day on Monday to affirm their commitment to fight against all forms of repression towards journalists that have been hinde

Nivell Rayda & Ismira Lutfia – Taking note that today is World Press Freedom Day, activists and experts said on Sunday that journalists in Indonesia still faced intimidation and the

Jakarta – During a judicial review hearing on Wednesday, Constitutional Court judges questioned the AGO on its criteria for public order disruption under the 2004 AGO law on the monitor

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Jakarta – Press and law experts worry that the vagueness of the 2008 Freedom of Information Law, which will take effect in late April, will have a negative impact on press freedom.

Ismira Lutfia & Putri Prameshwari – Media organizations and activists have denounced the seizure of Batam-based Erabaru radio station's transmission equipment by local authorities,

Ulma Haryanto – Two laws that give the Attorney General's Office power to ban books should be reviewed, a lawyer representing the Islamic Students Association told the Constitutional Co

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Jakarta – As online and multimedia journalism spreads across the globe, promising greater freedom and wider readership for media outlets, the specter of censorship and violence against

Nurfika Osman – Freedom of the press in democratic societies should be upheld, industry experts agreed on Friday, although that principle should be balanced with responsible reporting.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) along with several legal institutions have submitted a request for a judicial review with the Constitutional Court against Law Number 4/

Ismira Lutfia – The Jakarta chapter of the Alliance of Independent Journalists on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Indonesian Censorship Institute for its decision to ban the film

Ismira Lutfia – The Aceh office of the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission has proposed a draft of the province's broadcasting qanun, or bylaw, that will be used as a standard to censor

Ilya Gridneff, Port Moresby – The suspicious death of an Australian journalist filming Papuan guerrillas fighting Indonesia's hardline military rule must be revisited with an investigat

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring said Wednesday he would press ahead with a planned bill to monitor Internet content, des

Ismira Lutfia & Febriamy Hutapea – Local Web site managers have joined the chorus of objections to the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology's draft regula

Ismira Lutfia – News media, bloggers and other members of the online community were united on Wednesday in voicing objections to a Ministry of Communication and Information Technology d

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Days after news broke that the Communications and Information Technology Ministry was mulling a regulation to curb Internet-related crime, online oppos

Ismira Lutfia – The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology is facing growing objections to its plan to create a monitoring team with the power to order Internet service pr

The Alliance of Independent Journalists has slammed the Communication and Information Ministry's draft regulation on multimedia content, stating that it threatened freedom of the press.

Emmy Fitri & Ismira Lutfia – Nine years ago Bambang Suryono rediscovered his passion for journalism when he began working for a Chinese-language newspaper, a dream he never thought

Emmy Fitri & Ismira Lutfia – Slapping criminal libel charges on journalists constitutes a major threat to freedom of expression, because such charges have long since been eliminated

Camelia Pasandaran – A controversial nationalist organization got its way on Monday when the Constitutional Court approved part of its judicial review request on the number of legislato

Ismira Lutfia – After five years of deliberation, media practitioners on Tuesday agreed to endorse journalists' competence standards as guidelines to improve professionalism in the indu

Emmy Fitri – The ongoing debate over recent book bans aside, one thing is certain: The written word still has a powerful influence on society, sharpened and fueled by today's digital er

Indonesian journalists will appeal the country's decision to ban the Australian film Balibo.

Ismira Lutfia – Media activists on Wednesday came out against the government's plan to merge public broadcasters Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI) and Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) in

The Australia West Papua Association (Sydney) condemns the banning of books by the Indonesian Attorney General's Office (AGO).

Thousands of Indonesians have flocked to guerrilla screenings of Balibo since the Australian film was banned last month.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Scholars and free speech activists have signed a statement saying the government has violated basic human rights following the decision of the Attorney

Heru Andriyanto – A group of prominent activists on Friday demanded the Attorney General's Office put an end to the controversial policy of banning politically sensitive books.

Andi Saputra, Jakarta – In response to the recent banning of five books and moves by Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar to examine 20 more for possible banning, 83 intell

Ismira Lutfia – Though Indonesia was a leader among fellow Asean member nation in press freedom in 2009 and violence against journalists here has declined in recent years, media activis

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office has insisted John Roosa's famous book on the September 30th Movement and Soeharto's coup d'etat has 143 crucial points that led

Jakarta – While calls mount for the government to stop banning books, the Attorney General's Office and the Justice and Human Rights Ministry are not seeing eye to eye over which instit

Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar on Monday said that a special team has been given two weeks to study a number of books that are deemed to potentially pose a threat to

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – After the controversial banning of five books last week, the government has added 20 more titles to its evaluation list, citing suspicion the books potentiall

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights has sent a letter to the Attorney General's Office (AGO) requesting clarification on the latter's decision to ban five books despite mo

Jakarta – The number of instances of violence against journalists dropped by 30 percent this year, a report from the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) revealed.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court should revoke the authority of the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to ban books within the country, as it limits intellectual freedom guaranteed by th

Anita Rachman & Ismira Lutfia – Press organizations on Sunday denounced calls for the government to regulate or ban racy entertainment news programs, saying such a move smacked of c

Rod McGuirk, Jakarta – A journalists' group threatened on Tuesday to fight a ban on the war movie "Balibo" with a constitutional court challenge if the Indonesian government enforces it

Nivell Rayda – The Indonesia Film Censorship Agency's decision to ban the Australian movie "Balibo" early this month appears to have backfired, with stores all over the capital selling

Agustina Wayansari, Melbourne – The director of Balibo, Robert Connolly, is excited with Indonesians' enthusiasm toward his movie despite its banning by the Film Censorship Board (LSF).

New York - The Indonesian government should rescind its censorship of a film depicting a military atrocity prior to Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor, Human Rights Watch said toda