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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January 24, 2015
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November 25, 2014
Indonesian Women’s Rights Under Siege
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October 20, 2014
Australia needs to talk human rights issues with Indonesia
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July 18, 2014
Voting against Indonesia’s religious intolerance
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May 14, 2014
Undoing Yudhoyono’s Sectarian Legacy
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February 28, 2014
Indonesia and the Act of Forgetting
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December 27, 2013
Human rights are under attack in post-tsunami Indonesia
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October 30, 2013
Dispatches: Indonesia’s Thug-Coddling Officials
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October 8, 2013
Dispatches: Indonesia’s Papua Abuses Intrude on APEC Meet
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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