Attacks on journalists in Indonesia raise concerns on press freedom


The street in front of the Bone Regency office in South Sulawesi is littered with debris on Tuesday night, Aug. 19, after a property tax protest turned violent hours earlier. - Kompas.com via The Jakarta Post/ANN

JAKARTA: Two separate attacks on journalists in Bone, South Sulawesi and Grobogan, Central Java, have raised fresh concerns about the state of press freedom in the country.

Security apparatus attacked a journalist from CNN Indonesia, Zulkifli Natsir when he was covering a rally against the increase in Land and Building Tax-Rural and Urban (PBB-P2) in Bone regency on Tuesday (Aug 19).

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