Journo arrested for reporting on palm oil tycoon’s alleged land grab

Mongabay
May 7, 2020, 8:48 am199 ptsTrending
JAKARTA — Activists have condemned the arrest of a journalist in Indonesia for reporting on a land conflict between a palm oil company owned by a powerful tycoon and indigenous groups in Borneo. Police arrested Diananta Putra Sumedi on May 4 and charged him under a controversial 2016 law on electronic…

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