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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July 19, 2017
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March 8, 2017
Indonesia’s Abuses in Papua Prompt Call for UN Probe
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February 2, 2017
Indonesia’s Religious Minorities Under Threat
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January 18, 2017
Indonesian Government Says Adultery is Not a Crime
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August 30, 2016
Indonesian LGBT Activists Receive Free Expression Award
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August 29, 2016
Indonesia Religious Discrimination Harms Education Rights
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August 16, 2016
Indonesia’s President Jokowi Silent on Human Rights
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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