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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Indonesia’s forestry ministry has posted a notice saying it will use a controversial internet law to prosecute anyone who downloads geospatial data without its written permission, threatening prison terms of up to nine years news.mongabay.com/2026/10/indo...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As Evan Gershkovich writes in his enthralling memoir, “This Cursed Beautiful Land,” the United States, like Russia, has a long and sordid history of deploying spies posing as foreign correspondents, and leaning on actual reporters to gather intelligence www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/b...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Haji Isam is a representative of the new generation of tycoons, displacing the old 'dragons' from the stage such as Low Tuck Kwong, the owners of Bayan. Kwong is one of Indonesian businessmen of Chinese descent with whom Soeharto surrounded himself archive.ph/KQpBy#select...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Indonesian government ask people to conserve water, use it wisely and prepare emergency reserves. In Banten, Java Island, local authorities promised to construct a water pipeline system that reaches Gunung Batur, despite its rugged terrain www.reportingasean.net/indonesias-d...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Joos Willem Mirino helped write the report "A Past That Does Not Pass: Human Rights Violations in the Land of Papua Before and After Reformasi," which documents the testimonies of 108 victims from the period prior to the 1969 Act of Free Choice #RIP www.newguineakurir.com/2026/09/24/o...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A decade ago, Xi Jinping asked if China could master A.I. His push is remaking the economy, challenging the United States and keeping society under control www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/w...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Independent forest monitoring platform shows that around 60,000 hectares of burned land in West Papua is located inside the Merauke estate project, one-third of the total burn scar recorded across Indonesia’s easternmost island www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Indonesia's national search and rescue agency has called off the operation to locate five journalists and three boat crew members missing in the Sunda Strait while covering the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau, after a 10-day search www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Simultaneous volcano eruptions and a string of other disasters have put the government’s mitigation efforts under renewed scrutiny, as questions mount over whether Indonesia has invested enough in prevention despite its long history of natural disasters www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Indonesia's wealthiest family, the Hartonos, invested at least $1.4 billion abroad, pivoting from their practice of keeping their wealth at home. Their investments are driven by a strategy to diversify their revenue streams into other currencies www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sukidi: History shows that past and present authoritarians use state messaging not only to erode critical reasoning and deliberative debate, but to manufacture imaginary enemies. Critics at home are smeared as "foreign agents" or "black Dutchmen" www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Arion Press in San Francisco bills itself as the only printer in the U.S. that makes books entirely by hand under one roof, from casting metal type to printing pages to binding them together into exquisite volumes prized by collectors www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/a...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“This is a risk for the whole world,” said Col. Serhiy Minaiev, the commander of air defenses in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. “In a few years, we will be living in a ‘Terminator’ movie. It’s no joke. Machines are making decisions to strike” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Indonesia was in total chaos after the fall of President Suharto in 1998, changing the course of history in Timor-Leste. Through his dedication, research skills, and his writing talent, Pat Walsh placed himself firmly at that narrow intersection of history www.insideindonesia.org/when-the-sta...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

When Nadiem Makarim joined Indonesia’s cabinet as minister for education, the founder of Gojek, promised to move fast and break things. It has not ended well. A Jakarta court sentenced him to 10 years in prison on corruption (he had pleaded not guilty) www.economist.com/business/202...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

At South Africa’s National Women’s Day commemoration, President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke about the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan. Standing alongside him, Malala Yousafzai urged governments to called it: gender apartheid www.hrw.org/news/2026/08...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In Salatiga, I met Achmadi, a coachman who led a network of horse-drawn cart coachmen, to resist a 1989 government plan to ban their vehicles. I helped them, learning about the failures of motorization and setting their union www.andreasharsono.net/2018/06/achm...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In 1998, Zhu Rongji warned against corrupt officials, suggesting the lengths he would go to attack the problem: “I’ve prepared 100 coffins. Nine-nine of them are for corrupt officials, and I’m leaving one for myself” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/w...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Prabowo’s efforts to reshape Indonesia’s economy are reaching their limits. Wary of a renewed run on the rupiah, the president picked Destry Damayanti, an orthodox economist and monetary insider to helm the central bank www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Giving @hrw.org report "Grabbed Land, Justice Silenced" to journalists from four Indonesian provinces: Jambi, South Sulawesi, South Kalimantan and Riau. It's on the persecution of environmentalists and Indigenous leaders in Indonesia including those provinces www.hrw.org/report/2026/...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Dayak farmer Misran Toni was released from custody and exonerated. But the case highlights the risks faced both by communities affected by coal mining and Indigenous rights defenders who oppose Indonesia's coal industry www.hrw.org/news/2026/08...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Lobga Rangzen’s unthinkable act —the first known self-immolation by a Tibetan in the United States— may have achieved one of his greatest goals, however briefly: He made the world pay attention to Tibet www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In 1999, Pat Walsh and wife Annie Keogh moved to Dili, living in Kampung Baru, Comoro, for fourteen years. Their three daughters lived in Timor Leste at various times, including in Dili and Venilale www.insideindonesia.org/an-extra-ord...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Henry Chu, a veteran foreign correspondent and editor, has been named the new curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Chu will be the ninth curator in the foundation’s 88-year history news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In March 2025, United Nations human rights experts warned that Indigenous people living in 40 villages in Merauke, South Papua, would lose their livelihood and traditional rights due to the deforestation for Indonesia's "food and energy estates" www.hrw.org/news/2026/07...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The transport road of a nickel mining site, constructed after clearing forest in Central Halmahera, North Maluku. Indonesia is the world’s largest supplier of nickel, a key material for steel-making and electric batteries www.hrw.org/preview-link...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Morombo Beach village in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, is polluted since nickel mining began in 2011, turning the clear coastal waters brown with mud and hurting the local fishing. 📷Riza Salman www.hrw.org/preview-link...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Farmer Budi Pego was arrested for protesting against gold mining company that had allegedly polluted the water and soil in Banyuwangi. In 2017 he was sentenced to 10 months in prison for “spreading communism” and 4 years after he lost appeal, released in Nov 2024 www.hrw.org/preview-link...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Human rights lawyer Haris Azhar spent nearly two years defending against defamation charges over his podcast about gold mining activities in Central Papua before eventually being acquitted in January 2025 in Jakarta www.hrw.org/preview-link...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Police in Paser, charged farmer Misran Toni, who protested giant trucks used by a coal mining company because they caused potholes, traffic snarls, and accidents. Tanah Grogot district court acquitted him after he had spent 10 months in police detention www.hrw.org/preview-link...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Indonesia is now conducting the largest deforestation in the world. Many police and prosecutors pursue wrongful prosecutions of environmentalists and Indigenous community leaders who protest deforestation and pollution, or defend land rights www.hrw.org/news/2026/07...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In Indonesia’s island paradise, slavery remains a daily reality. Though slavery has been illegal in what is now Indonesia for more than 160 years, it survives in Sumba’s rigid caste system www.scmp.com/news/asia/so...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Donald Trump and his conspiracy theory 😜 www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Elon Musk’s cuts to USAID led to some 700,000 deaths, according to Atul Gawande, a former administrator. Gawande, backed by academic studies, believes that the death toll will likely reach 1 million. The policy is cruel and stupid www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Israel's long effort to groom Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset, culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to a Mossad safe house in Tehran in the early days of the war. But the plan fell apart www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The top prosecutor's scandal raises serious questions for Indonesia. The question is whether the discovery of his riches shows that guardrails against graft are working, or whether those scandals indicate corruption is worsening www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Since Prabowo took office, he has tested the limits of what’s possible under the law. Indonesia’s government has seized large swathes of land that it says were used illegally and pressured the moneyed class to buy “patriot bonds” at around US$4 billion www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Harassment and attacks against LGBT students in Indonesia escalated during #PrideMonth celebrations. At least 10 state universities adopted discriminatory rules, curbing student media and social media talks around gender, undermining free expression www.hrw.org/news/2026/07...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A Tibetan activist lit himself on fire and outside of the United Nations headquarters in New York to protest China’s control over his homeland, declaring in a video that Beijing’s policies were “destroying the Tibetan people.” He later died www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Nadiem Makarim, ex education minister and founder of Indonesia's largest tech company GoTo was sentenced to 10 years in jail and to pay restitution of US$45m - the amount he was accused of enriching himself with - or serve an additional five years www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The three biggest foreign banks in Indonesia have shipped around $640 million of their earnings out of Indonesia since 2024 as they pare exposure amid President Prabowo Subianto’s increasingly state-focused economic policies www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The soldiers responded to the demonstration by shooting into the crowd, killing nine young protestors and wounding nine more. The youngest victim, Fu Min, was only 12 years old. The rest were in their teens and early twenties www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edi...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

On 27 June 1967, a demonstration was held in Banyuwangi to protest against an Indonesia military decree, banning them from wholesale traders and imposing new taxes on their businesses. The use of Chinese language in commerce was also banned www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edi...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Indonesia's sovereign fund, Danantara, is offering unprecedented legal protections for investors, including immunity from criminal, civil or tax probes. The provision, buried in a 207-page financial-sector law, says bond records can protect them www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

LineShine, a massive computing system in Shenzhen, China, was declared the world’s fastest by a group of researchers using a set of standard tests for supercomputers. Besides raw speed, the system stood out because it uses only standard microprocessors www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/t...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In February 2026, music executive Clive Davis was introduced by a video message from former President Barack Obama, who said, “Most people don’t realize how much the music they love was shaped by one man” #RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/a...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When discussing the Indonesian documentary "Pig Feast" #PestaBabi perhaps worth mentioning that Barack Obama wrote about Merauke, South Papua, in his 1995 memoar www.andreasharsono.net/2010/02/obam...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In Pekanbaru, Abdu Rahman is now 26 years old, already survived genocide, crossed a river with a young brother on his back, spent 7 years in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, endured 17 days on a vessel at sea, and lost his father. He has not lost his voice asiaglobe.news/post/words-f...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A 🇮🇩 military investigation contained contradictory evidence, lacked transparency, and took a narrow approach to acknowledge Corporal Herman Bukit’s involvement to order Bebas Ginting to burn down journalist Rico Pasaribu’s house in Kabanjahe, killing him and his family cpj.org/special-repo...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Mark Singer, a staff writer at The New Yorker from the age of 23 who extended the magazine’s franchise of rich reporting and witty prose about offbeat, complicated and quintessentially American characters, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 75 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/o...

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