Indonesia: media worker assaulted by constructor for covering alleged irregularities in health facility construction
Event- Country
- Indonesia
- Initial Date
- Jan 16, 2021
- Event Description
A journalist in West Flores was allegedly mistreated by a group of people while doing coverage. AL is suspected of being abused by a contractor with the initials of SD along with his workers after covering the visit of a number of members of the DPRD Flores Barat to monitor the construction of the Bale Puskesmas in Klubagolit District on Saturday, January 16.
The journalist was assaulted for covering the allegations of corruption of the construction of health facilities which later were found not to be in accordance with the budget plan.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Corporation (others)
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: -8.30376475396129
Longitude: 124.24850657361115
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 16 January 2021, AL, media worker, was physically and verbally assaulted by a constructor and some of its staff while covering the alleged irregularities in building a health facility in East Flores Regency, Indonesia.