Indonesia: activists intimidated and hacked in anticipation of presidential visit to Medan
Event- Country
- Indonesia
- Initial Date
- Feb 9, 2023
- Event Description
The moment of President Joko Widodo's arrival to Medan City was used by a number of activists who held the Kamisan action in front of the Pos Block, Jalan City Hall, Medan City.
According to one participant in the Kamisan Action, Rimba, this action is the 34th time it has been held every Thursday.
However, on the exact day that the President came to Medan City, he plans to convey his aspirations directly to Joko Widodo.
"We raise the theme of solidarity for farmers in Gurilla (Pematang Siantar) whose land was confiscated yesterday by PTPN III, to be used as our oil palm plantation here too," said Rimba to the Tribune-medan, Thursday (9/2/2023).
He plans, if he meets with President Jokowi, he will also convey a number of human rights violations that have not been saved.
"Because the president came to Medan City, we actually wanted to meet with Jokowi or Jokowi who came to us, to discuss all kinds of human rights customers in Indonesia," he said.
However, Rimba said that until the demonstration was over, President Jokowi had not crossed that road.
"Incidentally, we didn't get to meet the president and we also didn't see the president pass by here," he said.
Rimba also said that prior to President Jokowi's arrival, a number of WhatsApp colleagues had been hacked by irresponsible people.
"The hack was on Wednesday night, my friends got hacked. Their WhatsApp can't be used anymore, five people have hacked it, they haven't used it to this day," he said.
After getting hacked, he also admitted that he had received intimidation from someone who claimed to be a member of the North Sumatra Police.
"Someone called and claimed they were from the Regional Police to be invited to meet to discuss it so they would not take action and there were indications that they wanted to be given symbolic money as silence," he said.
"This is because we think that they are afraid of us conveying our aspirations in front of the president," he concluded.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Online Attack and Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Online
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Unknown
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Unknown
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 3.589865327453988
Longitude: 98.67357353737764
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 9 February 2023, a group of activists participating in Aksi Kamisan were intimidated by numerous parties and prohibited from protesting for human rights fulfillment following presidential visit to Medan, Indonesia.