Indonesia: students, media worker harassed

Event
Country
  • Indonesia
Initial Date
Jul 9, 2022
Event Description

On July 9, journalist Sofyan Muhammadiyah was covering student demonstrations against the Maluku Governor, Murad Ismail, in Namlea, Maluku when he was harassed by the Governor’s aide, I Ketut Wardana.

Muhammadiyah, a reporter for Molluca TV, had recorded Ismail threatening student protestors on his mobile phone. Despite Muhammadiyah stating he was a journalist, Wardana grabbed his phone and deleted his video coverage.

Impact of Event
2
Gender of HRD
  • Man
  • Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
Violation
  • Intimidation and Threats
Rights Concerned
  • Freedom of assembly
  • Freedom of expression
    • Offline
  • Right to healthy and safe environment
  • Right to Protest
HRD
  • Media Worker
  • Student
Perpetrator-State
  • Government
Source

IFJ

Monitoring Status
Pending
Event Location

Latitude: -3.270160906695897

Longitude: 127.09866321778725

Event Location
Summary for Publications

On 7 July 2022, Sofyan Muhammadiyah, media worker, and a group of students, were threatened while respectively reporting and staging a protest against the local governor by one of his aide in Namlea, Indonesia.