Indonesia - Reporter found dead in Aceh, other attacks on journalists

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is concerned by a series of media freedom violations in Indonesia in the past few days. At the same time, it has learned of the death of Darma Sahlan, a journalist working for the weekly Monitor Medan, whose body was found in Lawe Two, in Aceh province (in the north of the island of Sumatra), on 5 February. “We offer our condolences to Sahlan's family and we urge the authorities to do everything possible to shed light on his death, and to not rule out the (...)

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