From 2008 through March 2015, 85 people had been sued under the ITE Law, with at least five people sentenced to prison.
Freedom House
24 April 2016
Supreme Court upholds ministerial regulation allowing government to block websites displaying "negative content"
Freedom House
31 October 2015
Ranked 97th in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2015
State releases documentary 'The Act of Killing' as free download opening public debate on junta-led genocide
Human Rights Watch
22 June 2014
Impunity for perpetrators of violence against journalists continues
Southeast Asian Press Alliance
3 May 2014
Aceh "punks" rounded up by police, subjected to reeducation
Freedom House
1 May 2014
The government has enacted unnecessary restrictions on access to information about forest concessions and land claims. Authorities have harassed and intimidated local activists who have been bringing attention to forest sector abuses, and a number of environmentalists and activists have been arrested or prosecuted in recent months over plantation disputes.
Human Rights Watch
16 July 2013
Ranked 96th in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2013
Authorities in Aceh subject rebellious youth to “reeducation,” which includes the forcible shaving of their punk-rock hairstyles and a traditional cleansing ceremony
Freedom House
16 January 2013
Coffins delivered to media organisations in an attempt to intimidate journalists
Southeast Asian Press Alliance
3 May 2012
Indonesian journalists cover corruption at great risk
Committee to Protect Journalists
22 February 2012
"At least two journalists were killed, five kidnapped and 18 assaulted in 2011"
Reporters Without Borders
25 January 2012
"Indonesia has imprisoned more than 100 activists from the Moluccas and Papua for peacefully voicing political views, holding demonstrations, and raising separatist flags"
Human Rights Watch
22 January 2012