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September 2018

ULMWP protesters detained by police in Jayapuara - September 4, 2018 (IST)
News/West Papua
45 arrested in Jayapura at rally calling on PIF to raise West Papua case with UN
Tabloid Jubi – September 4, 2018
Garda protest action before arrests - September 3, 2018 (Ist)
News/West Papua
14 arrested in Jayapura protest against Freeport, militarism in Papua
Suara Papua – September 3, 2018

August 2018

FRI-WP activists negotiate with police - August 15, 2018 (FRI-WP)
News/West Papua
Police in Ternate violently break up protest commemorating New York Agreement
Suara Papua – August 15, 2018

July 2018

Police and military surround Papuan dormitory in Surabaya - July 7, 2018 (Detik)
News/West Papua
Police claim raid on Papuan student dormitory to anticipate ‘Bloody Biak’ film screening
Suara.com – July 7, 2018
Police and military besiege Papuan student dormitory in Surabaya - July 7, 2018 (Suara)
News/West Papua
Students abused, furniture vandalised in raid on Papuan dormitory in Surabaya
Suara.com – July 7, 2018

March 2018

Police deployed to 'guard' film screening - March 27, 2018 (AMP)
News/West Papua
40 police deployed to secure Papuan student screening of film The First Grader
Tempo – March 28, 2018

February 2018

Hasanuddin Uni students surrounded by soldiers - February 15, 2018 (Catatan Kaki)
News/Indonesia
University deploys fully armed troops to stop students from meeting with Jokowi
Catatan Kaki – February 15, 2018
Rezki Ameliyah and Mohammad Nur Fiqri (Okezone)
News/Indonesia
Students criminalised for putting up ‘campus feels like a factory’ posters
Okezone – February 7, 2018

September 2017

Meeting at GPII headquarters to plan attack on YLBHI offices - September 15, 2017 (Yunantyo Adi S)
News/Indonesia
Who was behind the attack on the on the YLBHI offices
Tirto.id – September 19, 2017
Kivlan Zen meeting at GPII headquarters - September 15, 2017 (Yunantyo Adi S)
News/Indonesia
Hard-line general admits meeting with anti-communist protesters prior to attack on 1965 seminar
Tempo – September 19, 2017
Kivlan Zen speaking at government sponsored symposium on 1965 - April 2016 (CNN)
News/Indonesia
Hard-line general calls for YLBHI to be closed down for ‘spreading communist ideas’
CNN Indonesia – September 18, 2017
Muhammad Isnur speaking outside Komnas HAM offices in Jakarta - September 18, 2017 (Detik)
News/Indonesia
YLBHI says attack on their offices linked to Jokowi’s call to ‘clobber the PKI’
Detik News – September 18, 2017
Anti-communist mob protests outside YLBHI offices in Jakarta - September 18, 2017 (Kompas)
News/Indonesia
Anti-communist issue being used to divide people, create political instability: Rights watchdog
Kompas.com – September 18, 2017
Kivlan Zen speaks to reporters at police headquarters in Jakarta - September 19, 2017 (Kompas)
News/Indonesia
LBH accuses hard-line general, anti-Ahok protest organiser of being behind seminar attack
Detik News – September 18, 2017
Protesters demand 1965 seminar at YLBHI be closed down - September 14, 2017 (Tempo)
News/Indonesia
Accusations that 1965 seminar a communist party declaration is a ‘tired old joke’
Tempo – September 16, 2017
Forum 65 member Bonnie Setiawan negotiates with police in front of YLBHI - September 14, 2017 (ypkp1965)
News/Indonesia
Banning of 1965 seminar an ‘extraordinary step back for democracy in Indonesia’
Tempo – September 16, 2017
AMPUH protest outside YLBHI office in Jakarta - September 14, 2017
News/Indonesia
Police close down seminar on 1965 anti-communist purge after protests by nationalist groups
Media Indonesia – September 16, 2017
Anti-communist protesters clash with police in front of YLBH in Jakarta - September 18, 2017 (Tempo)
News/Indonesia
Rights watchdog says seminar closure makes Widodo’s commitment to human rights look hypocritical
Kompas.com – September 16, 2017

August 2017

Pemuda Pancaslia closes down Wiji Thukul film showing and discussion - August 8, 2017 (Fajar)
News/Indonesia
Deemed ‘neo-communist’, paramilitary group shuts down film showing on radical poet Wiji Thukul
Fajar – August 8, 2017
IPT 65 activists speaking at press conference in Jakarta - August 2, 2017 (CNN)
News/Indonesia
International People’s Tribunal 1965 event forced to move after being closed down by police
CNN Indonesia – August 2, 2017

July 2017

News/West Papua
Hundreds of KNPB activists arrested by police in Nabire
Tabloid Jubi – July 7, 2017

May 2017

Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia protesting Miss World contest - Sept 4, 2013 (Kompas)
News/Indonesia
After HTI, government mulls banning other social organisations
Tempo.co – May 31, 2017
Rioters overturn car during May 1998 riots in Jakarta - Jakarta May 14, 1998 (Tempo)
News/Indonesia
Police close down May 1998 event following threats my Islamic militia group
Tempo.co – May 27, 2017
Joko President Widodo speaks at State Palace press conference - May 16, 2016 (Tempo)
News/Indonesia
Jokowi: Anti-Pancasila and communist groups, we’ll clobber them, stamp them out
Kompas.com – May 19, 2017
Security chief Wiranto says government to combat ‘deviant ideologies’ on campus
News/Indonesia
Security chief Wiranto says government to combat ‘deviant ideologies’ on campus
RMOL – May 18, 2017
Activists call for full investigation into Wiji Thukul art exhibition closure
News/Indonesia
Activists call for full investigation into Wiji Thukul art exhibition closure
Kompas.com – May 16, 2017
Candle lit vigil in for Ahok in Makassar broken up by Islamic vigilantes
News/Indonesia
Candle lit vigil in for Ahok in Makassar broken up by Islamic vigilantes
Detik News – May 13, 2017
Protest against Wiji Thukul art exhibition closure - May 17, 2017 (A. Iswinarto)
News/Indonesia
Anti-communist vigilantes close down Wiji Thukul art exhibition in Yogyakarta
Detik News – May 8, 2017
Like being pursued by the ghost of communism
News/Indonesia
Like being pursued by the ghost of communism
Nurcholis ART – May 5, 2017

April 2017

Protest calling for Freeport closure in Yogya broken up by police
News/West Papua
Protest calling for Freeport closure in Yogya broken up by police
Tribune Jogja – April 7, 2017

January 2017

Papuas show support for West Papua Petition - May 14, 2017 (Benny Wenda)
News/West Papua
Indonesia blocks websites circulating #LetWestPapuaVote petition
Okezone – January 26, 2017

December 2016

Police use water cannon to disperse Papuan demonstrators in Jakarta - December 1, 2016 (Rima News)
News/West Papua
Protesters arrested and beaten at Papuan pro-independence rally in Jakarta
BBC News Indonesia – December 2, 2016
Indonesian police fire water cannon at Papuan demonstrators in Jakarta - December 1, 2016 (Suara Papua)
News/West Papua
221 arrested in three cities during West Papua pro-independence protests
Suara Papua – December 1, 2016
Police arrest protesters at West Papua independence rally in Jakarta - December 1, 2016 (Detik)
News/West Papua
Police forced to commandeer public buses after 328 arrested at Papua demo in Jakarta
Detik News – December 1, 2016

September 2016

Revoke Article 27 Paragraph 3 of the Electronic Information and Transaction Law
News/Indonesia
Activists call on Facebook to support users indicted under draconian ITE law
Solidarity Net – September 14, 2016

July 2016

Papuan student assulted by police in Yogyakarta - July 17, 2016 (Abbi Douw)
News/West Papua
Papuan students in Yogyakarta endure racist insults, multiple arrests in two day siege
CNN Indonesia – July 17, 2016
View from West Papua student dormatory in Yogyakarta - July 16, 2016 (Ipma Papua Diy)
News/West Papua
Yogya police detain local residents, Red Cross workers helping besieged Papua students
Tempo.co – July 16, 2016

May 2016

Setara Institute chairperson Hendardi - Undated (Kompas)
News/Indonesia
Anti-communist propaganda being exploited to restrict freedom of expression
Kompas.com – May 9, 2016
Music band Sampink - Undated (Youtube)
News/Indonesia
Band members arrested for singing PKI associated folk-song Genjer-Genjer
Metro TV News – May 9, 2016
Military displays seized hammer-and-sickle T-shirts – February 24, 2016 (Tribune)
News/Indonesia
Police question two over sale of T-shirts with hammer-and-sickle
Detik News – May 9, 2016
Protest against 3rd ASEAN Literary Festival – May 2016 (Billybil)
News/Indonesia
Islamic vigilantes threaten to shut down 3rd Asean Literary Festival in Jakarta
Suara.com – May 5, 2016
Police close down Buru Island Film Showing - May 6, 2016 (KPO-PRP Yogya)
News/Indonesia
Yogyakarta Sultan defends police banning of film on 1965 political prisoners
Tempo – May 5, 2016
Buru Island film showing in Yogyakarta - May 23, 2016 (KPO-PRP Yogya)
News/Indonesia
Film showing on Buru Island political prisoners closed down by Yogyakarta police
Detik News – May 3, 2016

April 2016

Military and police carry out sweeps in Papua - Undated (Melki Y-KM)
News/West Papua
LBH Jakarta: 63 Papuan activists arrested in the last 9 days
Suara Papua – April 15, 2016
Islamic vigilantes protest outside meeting of 1965 victims - April 14, 2017 (Tribune)
News/Indonesia
Police shut down meeting preparing for national symposium on 1965 mass killings
Portal KBR – April 14, 2016

March 2016

Announcement confirming cancellation of the Tan Malaka monologue in Bandung – March 2016 (Tempo)
News/Indonesia
Tan Malaka monolog performance in Bandung canceled after threats, intimidation
Detik News – March 23, 2016
Authorities close down Buru Island film showing - May 6, 2016 (KPO-PRP Yogya)
News/Indonesia
Jakarta military gets wind of ‘New Style Communists’ behind Buru Island film showing
Pos Kota – March 16, 2016

July 2015

Defamation
Cartoons/Indonesia
Defamation
Kompas – July 25, 2015

March 2015

Joshua Oppenheimer at the 2014 Venice Film Festival (Getty Images)
News/Indonesia
Oppenheimer ‘takes his hat off’ to Yogyakarta students
Tempo.co – March 13, 2015
Senyap film showing at UIN Sunan Kalijaga campus, Yogyakarta - March 11, 2015 (Fullah)
News/Indonesia
Yogya students unite to defend Senyap screening against Muslim hard-liners
Solidarity Net – March 11, 2015