JAKARTA - Indonesia has charged a rights activist with allegedly insulting the country's military, sparking a protest from campaigners who derided it as"ludicrous" and an attack on free speech.
"What he said was not in line with the facts and discrediting an institution without facts and evidence is dangerous," national police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said Friday in response to the charges."This is a blatant and ludicrous attempt to intimidate and silence Robertus for his peaceful criticism of the military," Amnesty International Indonesia's Executive Director Usman Hamid said in a statement.
"It was a popular song during the 1998 student movement which was meant to criticise the military then not now," Robet said in a separate video released on social media before his arrest.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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