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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June 8, 2021
Indonesian Law Hampers Mosque Construction
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February 25, 2021
Brave Indonesian Women Discuss Freedom to Choose What to Wear
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December 24, 2020
Religious Minorities in Indonesia Face Discrimination
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December 2, 2020
Brutal Attack in Indonesia Targets Christian Farmers
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November 9, 2020
Human Rights Abuses in Post-Suharto Indonesia
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September 7, 2020
Sixteen years on, still no justice for Munir’s death
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August 26, 2020
Covid-19 Spreads in Indonesia’s Overcrowded Prisons
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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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