Andreas Harsono
@andreasharsono.bsky.social
Author, Indonesia, Human Rights Watch, journalism, religious freedom and belief, freedom of expression, West Papua https://www.andreasharsono.net/
Remember a clip of @suelinwong.bsky.social of @theeconomistnews.bsky.social standing mic in her hand in her mother’s kitchen in Sydney, far away from her duty post in Hong Kong, having a candid conversation about life in communist China? gijn.org/stories/gijc...
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Remember a clip of @suelinwong.bsky.social of @theeconomistnews.bsky.social standing mic in her hand in her mother’s kitchen in Sydney, far away from her duty post in Hong Kong, having a candid conversation about life in communist China? gijn.org/stories/gijc...
Joseph E. Stiglitz —a Nobel prize-winner for economics— challenged the investigative journalism community to probe Western financial institutions and the associated rules that lead to wealth being laundered from the Global South gijn.org/stories/gijc...
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Joseph E. Stiglitz —a Nobel prize-winner for economics— challenged the investigative journalism community to probe Western financial institutions and the associated rules that lead to wealth being laundered from the Global South gijn.org/stories/gijc...
A 21st century construction boom is driving unregulated sand mining around the world - eroding rivers and coastlines, disrupting ecosystems and hurting livelihoods. Demand for sand is to grow as the global population continues to climb and cities expand www.reuters.com/graphics/GLO...
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A 21st century construction boom is driving unregulated sand mining around the world - eroding rivers and coastlines, disrupting ecosystems and hurting livelihoods. Demand for sand is to grow as the global population continues to climb and cities expand www.reuters.com/graphics/GLO...
Robyn McCutcheon, the first American diplomat to come out as transgender, helped to shape personnel policy at the State Department. The country she served doesn’t feel like home anymore, moving to Kazakhstan where she had spent some of the happiest years www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Robyn McCutcheon, the first American diplomat to come out as transgender, helped to shape personnel policy at the State Department. The country she served doesn’t feel like home anymore, moving to Kazakhstan where she had spent some of the happiest years www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
President Trump frequently demonstrates his disdain for journalists. He expresses his admiration for authoritarians almost as often. Tuesday showed how intertwined those two instincts really are edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/m...
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
President Trump frequently demonstrates his disdain for journalists. He expresses his admiration for authoritarians almost as often. Tuesday showed how intertwined those two instincts really are edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/m...
Today an important journalism conference starts in Kuala Lumpur, featuring Nobel prize winners. The Global Investigative Journalism Network serves as a hub for the investigative reporters, with 250 member organizations in 91 countries gijc2025.org/program/sche...
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Today an important journalism conference starts in Kuala Lumpur, featuring Nobel prize winners. The Global Investigative Journalism Network serves as a hub for the investigative reporters, with 250 member organizations in 91 countries gijc2025.org/program/sche...
In Indonesia, the climate crisis puts harms on indigenous communities’ livelihoods and tradition, but they are often sidelined in policies and any measures from the government to mitigate impacts from the crisis www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In Indonesia, the climate crisis puts harms on indigenous communities’ livelihoods and tradition, but they are often sidelined in policies and any measures from the government to mitigate impacts from the crisis www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
The UN Security Council authorizes the creation of an International Stabilization Force that would work with Israel and Egypt and newly trained Palestinian police to help secure border areas and demilitarize the Gaza Strip www.thejakartapost.com/world/2025/1...
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The UN Security Council authorizes the creation of an International Stabilization Force that would work with Israel and Egypt and newly trained Palestinian police to help secure border areas and demilitarize the Gaza Strip www.thejakartapost.com/world/2025/1...
Cleto Escobedo III, @jimmykimmel.com's bandleader, dies at 59. Kimmel said that he and Escobedo, who led Cleto and the Cletones on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” had been “inseparable since I was 9 years old” growing up in Las Vegas www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/a...
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Cleto Escobedo III, @jimmykimmel.com's bandleader, dies at 59. Kimmel said that he and Escobedo, who led Cleto and the Cletones on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” had been “inseparable since I was 9 years old” growing up in Las Vegas www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/a...
Juan Ponce Enrile, a political power in the Philippines, dies at 101. In 2011, he said, “I don’t think anyone can duplicate the life that I went through. Some people think of me as the devil incarnate. I respect their opinion” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Juan Ponce Enrile, a political power in the Philippines, dies at 101. In 2011, he said, “I don’t think anyone can duplicate the life that I went through. Some people think of me as the devil incarnate. I respect their opinion” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
Masahide Kanayama has devoted his life in New York to medicine and Christianity. In Tokyo, he was accused to desecrated two temples. Japanese authorities ask a New York court to extradite him to Japan. He could face five years jail term in Japan www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/n...
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Masahide Kanayama has devoted his life in New York to medicine and Christianity. In Tokyo, he was accused to desecrated two temples. Japanese authorities ask a New York court to extradite him to Japan. He could face five years jail term in Japan www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/n...
Legal experts say President Trump’s litigation track record offers both hope and warning to the British public broadcaster BBC which he has threatened with a US$1 billion suit www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Legal experts say President Trump’s litigation track record offers both hope and warning to the British public broadcaster BBC which he has threatened with a US$1 billion suit www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
The Trump administration want to revitalize the American shipbuilding industry and counter China’s rise as a commercial shipping power. The U.S. made 38 large commercial vessels in the past decade, compared with over 7,500 produced in China www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The Trump administration want to revitalize the American shipbuilding industry and counter China’s rise as a commercial shipping power. The U.S. made 38 large commercial vessels in the past decade, compared with over 7,500 produced in China www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the northwestern Philippines on Monday after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least 10 people and displacing more than 1.4 million others apnews.com/article/typh...
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the northwestern Philippines on Monday after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least 10 people and displacing more than 1.4 million others apnews.com/article/typh...
Gen. Suharto is a hero to some groups in Indonesia, but obviously, not a hero to many other groups. It’s much better if Indonesia is to end these jokes about national heroes. Let the public decide their own respective heroes www.arabnews.com/node/2621860...
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Gen. Suharto is a hero to some groups in Indonesia, but obviously, not a hero to many other groups. It’s much better if Indonesia is to end these jokes about national heroes. Let the public decide their own respective heroes www.arabnews.com/node/2621860...
Sri Owen, a woman born in 1935 in Padang Panjang, Sumatra Island, moved to Wimbledon, working for BBC and later writing popular cookbooks on Indonesian cuisine, died in London at 90 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Sri Owen, a woman born in 1935 in Padang Panjang, Sumatra Island, moved to Wimbledon, working for BBC and later writing popular cookbooks on Indonesian cuisine, died in London at 90 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
Democrats, furious about President Trump’s remaking of American government and society, turned out in extraordinary numbers for an off-year election to sweep virtually every competitive election on the map www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Democrats, furious about President Trump’s remaking of American government and society, turned out in extraordinary numbers for an off-year election to sweep virtually every competitive election on the map www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
Sound analysis from economist Muhamad Chatib Basri on Indonesia's good economic growth but fragile middle class. He helps to describe why millions of young Indonesian were involved in street protests nationwide
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Sound analysis from economist Muhamad Chatib Basri on Indonesia's good economic growth but fragile middle class. He helps to describe why millions of young Indonesian were involved in street protests nationwide
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and several other UN rights experts raised concerns about reports of environmental destruction, lack of Indigenous consent, and intimidation of environmental defenders in Weda Bay, North Maluku 🇮🇩 cri.org/indonesia-un...
November 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and several other UN rights experts raised concerns about reports of environmental destruction, lack of Indigenous consent, and intimidation of environmental defenders in Weda Bay, North Maluku 🇮🇩 cri.org/indonesia-un...
Lee Kuan Yew's death in 2015 triggered a decade-long saga over what to do with his house at 38 Oxley Road, Singapore, where his family home sits. Lee wanted that house to be demolished but now the government wants to preserve it as a national monument www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/38...
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Lee Kuan Yew's death in 2015 triggered a decade-long saga over what to do with his house at 38 Oxley Road, Singapore, where his family home sits. Lee wanted that house to be demolished but now the government wants to preserve it as a national monument www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/38...
Thirteen women from nine stations across three cities in New Zealand have teamed up for the Wāhine Toa Firefighter Calendar, a powerful new initiative supporting Breast Cancer Cure www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Thirteen women from nine stations across three cities in New Zealand have teamed up for the Wāhine Toa Firefighter Calendar, a powerful new initiative supporting Breast Cancer Cure www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
The Brazilian government, which will host the COP30 global climate summit in a little over a week in Pará state, should act urgently and decisively to uphold unmet commitments to frontline Amazon communities that live in and protect the rainforest cri.org/reports/chai...
October 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The Brazilian government, which will host the COP30 global climate summit in a little over a week in Pará state, should act urgently and decisively to uphold unmet commitments to frontline Amazon communities that live in and protect the rainforest cri.org/reports/chai...
China’s leader Xi Jinping draws on lessons from Lin Zexu, a Qing official whose defiance of Britain led to China’s humiliating defeat but made him a national hero www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
October 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
China’s leader Xi Jinping draws on lessons from Lin Zexu, a Qing official whose defiance of Britain led to China’s humiliating defeat but made him a national hero www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
The South Korean authorities have been scrambling to accommodate this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Gyeongju, which is known for tombs, temples and pagodas www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/w...
October 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The South Korean authorities have been scrambling to accommodate this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Gyeongju, which is known for tombs, temples and pagodas www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/w...
The Indonesian government task force has cast its eyes on some of the palm oil industry's biggest names. Wilmar, Guthrie, Sinar Mas, Musim Mas, First Resources, and Cargill were all listed by the forestry ministry as having illegal operations in forests www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The Indonesian government task force has cast its eyes on some of the palm oil industry's biggest names. Wilmar, Guthrie, Sinar Mas, Musim Mas, First Resources, and Cargill were all listed by the forestry ministry as having illegal operations in forests www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...