Buchtar Tabuni seen on a monitor due to social distancing restrictions as he sits in the dock during his trial in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, today. He was jailed 11 months on treason charges linked to anti-racism protest in 2019. – AFP pic, June 17, 2020.
A GROUP of Papuan activists was jailed for treason by an Indonesian court today over anti-racism protests last year in a case that sparked fears of a clampdown on free speech. Unrest erupted across Indonesia’s easternmost territory and in other parts of the country in August after the arrest, racial abuse and tear-gassing of dozens of Papuan students in the central city of Surabaya.
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