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Human rights group Amnesty International Indonesia has documented what it calls a “massive” wave of attacks on human rights defenders in the first half of 2025, warning of deteriorating civic space and the government’s persistent failure to protect those speaking out.
Culture Minister Fadli Zon’s denial of mass rape during the May 1998 riots has triggered a wave of condemnation, with rights groups warning that it reflects a growing effort to sanitize Indonesia’s violent past and erase the long-ignored suffering of Chinese-Indonesian women during one of the nation’s darkest chapters.
Indonesian authorities should provide space for activists to voice their concerns and opposition of the recent revision of the Indonesian Military (TNI) Law, according to United Nations special rapporteur on human rights Mary Lawlor.
In 2021, the coordinating maritime affairs and investment minister reported two activists for defamation after they made comments in a YouTube video about his alleged involvement in extractive mining in Papua and called the senior minister “lord”.
Amnesty 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.
Activists and scholars are questioning the government’s commitment to free speech as the police press ahead with an online defamation case against two human rights defenders under a law that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said should be reformed.
