Indonesia: media worker assaulted by village chief for reporting maladministration of COVID-19-earmarked budget

Event
Country
  • Indonesia
Initial Date
May 1, 2020
Event Description

Sahril is a journalist for kabardaerah.com. He was assaulted by Dirman, Bisui Village chief, allegedly for writing a news article about Bisui Villages’ management of Covid-19 countermeasure budget. After the news article was published, Sahril was called by Dirman saying he was going to give his perspective regarding the news article that Sahril wrote. When they meet, Dirman immediately choke Sahril while telling him to “write news properly”. Following this incident, Sahril reported Dirman to local authority for committing violence.

Impact of Event
1
Gender of HRD
  • Man
Violation
  • Violence (physical)
Rights Concerned
  • #COVID-19
  • Offline
  • Right to healthy and safe environment
HRD
  • Media Worker
Perpetrator-State
  • Government
Source

RadarSorong

Monitoring Status
Pending
Event Location
Event Location
Summary for Publications

On 1 May 2020, Sahril Helmi, media worker, was assaulted by the village chief for reporting maladministration of COVID-19-earmarked budget in South Halmahera Regency, Indonesia.