Andreas Harsono
Andreas Harsono has covered Indonesia for Human Rights Watch since 2008. Before joining Human Rights Watch, he helped found the Jakarta-based Institute for the Studies on Free Flow of Information in 1995, and in 2003 he helped create the Pantau Foundation, a journalist training organization also based in Jakarta. A staunch backer of the free press, Harsono also helped establish Jakarta’s Alliance of Independent Journalists in 1994 and Bangkok’s South East Asia Press Alliance in 1998. Harsono began his career as a reporter for the Bangkok-based Nation and the Kuala Lumpur-based Star newspapers, and he edited Pantau, a monthly magazine on media and journalism in Jakarta. In Indonesian Malay, his published books include Jurnalisme Sastrawi: Antologi Liputan Mendalam dan Memikat (with Budi Setiyono) and “Agama” Saya Adalah Jurnalisme as well as in English Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia.
Articles Authored
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March 30, 2020
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January 31, 2020
Indonesia’s Silence over Xinjiang
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October 31, 2019
Indonesia to Expand Abusive Blasphemy Law
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October 11, 2019
Indonesian Woman Tried for Blasphemy Over Mosque Incident
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September 23, 2019
Indonesia’s President Urges Delay on Criminal Code Vote
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August 23, 2019
Indonesian Officers’ Racist Slurs Trigger Riots in Papua
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August 21, 2019
Indonesia’s Journalists Grapple With Islamism
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May 12, 2019
Quasi Ban Imposed on Award-Winning Indonesian Film
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November 30, 2018
Indonesia Launches ‘Snitch’ App Targeting Religious Minorities
Reports Authored
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“Scared in Public and Now No Privacy”
Human Rights and Public Health Impacts of Indonesia’s Anti-LGBT Moral Panic
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