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View all search resultsAmnesty International Indonesia recorded a gradual increase in incidences targeting vocal critics of potential fraud and the President's perceived meddling that it says have tainted the 2024 general election on Feb. 14.
Marking the annual International Human Rights Day, rights groups on Friday painted a disturbingly bleak picture of the country’s state of human rights with a controversial illiberal legislation being passed, lukewarm handling of past rights violations and persisting violence and impunity among security forces.
Amnesty International Indonesia has called out the government for excessive use of force in Papua last week against protesters who were rallying against Jakarta's plan to create new provinces in the country's easternmost region.
Amnesty International Indonesia has recorded an increase in attacks against the country’s human rights defenders this year alongside continued restrictions on the exercise of free speech, developments the organization has called “alarming”.
The Indonesian Constitution stipulates that everyone is free to express their opinion in public and protects the right to seek, receive and convey information and ideas, orally and in writing, through print and electronic media.
Indonesia’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva claimed the warning was a “mischaracterization” and accused the UN expert of taking a “megaphone approach […] just for the sake of personal gain through media exposure”.
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