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July 7, 2020

Indonesia: Critic of Covid-19 response arrested after phone hack and WhatsApp call to riot

Olga Cronin Case Study, COVID-19, Indonesia, Protest & Policing, Surveillance & Human Rights

On April 21, as Indonesia responded to Covid-19, police in Jakarta announced a ban on all May Day rallies. The ban came ahead of planned protests against a bill on job creation which unions said would reduce labour rights and followed reports that police in Jakarta had launched an investigation into an anarcho-syndicalism group which […]

June 23, 2020

Indonesia: Protests against prison conditions during COVID-19

Laura Kauer Case Study, COVID-19, Indonesia, Protest & Policing

On March 13, the Indonesian government issued a Presidential Decree regarding the Establishment of the Task Force for the Acceleration of COVID-19, but it was not until March 30 that the President Joko Widodo announced the Large-Scale Social Restriction (Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar – PSBB), while refusing to impose a lockdown. Indonesian civil rights organizations […]