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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November 8, 2018
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October 25, 2018
The Human Cost of Indonesia’s Blasphemy Law
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October 9, 2018
Indonesian President Evokes Communism’s Ghost
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August 14, 2018
Indonesian Political Prisoners Moved Close to Home
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April 23, 2018
“Religious Harmony” Principle Backfires in Indonesia
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April 23, 2018
Indonesian President Jokowi to Ban Child Marriage
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March 27, 2018
The Mysterious Death of a Papuan Child
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February 6, 2018
BBC Correspondent Detained in Indonesia Now Freed
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January 30, 2018
Indonesian Police Arrest Transgender Women
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January 26, 2018
Why Children are Dying of Measles in Papua, Indonesia
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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