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View all search resultsMarking 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 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”.
Amid an ongoing defamation lawsuit against two activists, Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has demanded a financial audit of Greenpeace Indonesia in an apparent response to its criticism of government deforestation claims.
Amid Indonesia’s ongoing democratic regression the Golkar Party, which controls the second-largest number of seats at the House of Representatives and which supports President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s administration, has reaffirmed its commitment to protecting democracy in the country.
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