Indonesia: five media workers threatened, manhandled by the police
Event- Country
- Indonesia
- Initial Date
- Oct 9, 2020
- Event Description
Mangir, Yuda, Samuel, Faisal, and Rizki are journalists based in Samarinda, East Kalimantan Province. On 9 October 2020, they were covering a students protest in Samarinda, demanding the release of their friends who were arrested a few days before for protesting against the legislation of the Omnibus Bill on Job Creation. During the protest, the students clashed with the police, and one student was kicked several times by a group of police officers. When the 5 journalist tried to record the incident, a policemen stomped on Mangir’s foot and demanded him to not record the police who brutally assault the protestor. The police tried to confiscate Mangir’s phone to delete his record. Yuda and Rizki tried to intervene, but the police threatened them. Samuel who also tried to intervene, when showing his id card as a journalist, got his hair grabbed and pulled by the police. The five journalist then leave the area.
- Impact of Event
- 5
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Censorship
- Intimidation and Threats
- Use of Excessive Force
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: -0.5063804556295903
Longitude: 117.13333651632749
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 9 October 2020, 5 media workers were threatened by the police and assaulted while reporting police violence during a protest in Samarinda, Indonesia.