The activists have called for the freedom of the press to be preserved in Indonesia and have demanded an inquiry after the government’s head and disintegrated mice were sent for a government magazine.
Since the 1970s, a top Indonesian publication weekly magazine Tempo, has been important for the policies of President Prabovo Sabiento, a pre-general, who accuse of abuse under the heavenly dictator Suharto.
The magazine said in a statement that the cleaner at Tempo’s office on Saturday cut off his head and found a box of six mice.
The head of a pig without its ears was also found there on Thursday, which was aimed at delivery to a reporter.
“This is a dangerous and deliberate intimidating intimidation and intentional,” Lih Yi, head of the Asia program in the committee, told AFP on Saturday.
“Journalists in Indonesia should be able to do their work independently and safely without fear of vengeance.”
Usman Hamid, Executive Director, Amnesty International Indonesia, told the AFP on Saturday that an investigation should be opened, saying that there was a risk that there was a risk that being a journalist in Indonesia would become a “like a death sentence”.
Tempo’s editor-in-chief Setri Yasra said that delivery demanded to reduce the work of publication, but also said that it would be committed to its mission.
“If the intention is intended to intimidate, we are not, but stop this cowardly task,” Serdry said in a statement.
The Indonesian media reported that there was no indication who had sent the items, but the presidential spokesman Hassan Nasbi performed the incident on Friday, which told reporters on Friday that the magazine should “cook the head”, the Indonesian media told.
He later clarified his comment on Saturday, stating the news site Commus that the freedom of the press should be upheld and such acts should be “seriously”.
He did not respond to the AFP request for the comment.
The Sitry described the police as the first package and the officials visited the magazine’s office after the second package was distributed.
The magazine has published in recent weeks stories, which has been criticized for Prabovo’s policies, including a widespread budget cut to promote protests last month.
Tempo was banned twice – finally in 1994 – under Suharto, who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for more than three decades. It resumed the publication after its collapse in the late 1990s.
Prabovo was once married to Suharto’s daughter and is accused of ordering the disappearance of democracy workers near the end of her rule, which she refuses.
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