Bintan Journalists Prohibited from Covering Hearing Activities

Description

Journalists are prohibited from covering the Hearing Meeting (RDP) between Commission I of the Bintan Regional Representative Council and PT Japfa on Monday, July 8 2024.

Bintan regional representative staff and police units prohibited journalists from covering the activity.

There were 6 journalists who were prohibited from covering these public activities. Namely Yuli (deltakepri.co.id), M Sumartono (Go Tv News), Ardiansyah (journalist forreview.co), Selamet (journalist for Batam Pos), Misbah (journalist for V News) and Yanto (journalist for iNews).

That day the journalist will go to the 2nd floor to cover the hearing. The staff of the Bintan Regency regional representative council then asked the journalists' purpose for being there.

When the journalist answered that he would cover the hearing, the officers forbade him and called the civil service police unit to throw the journalist out of the building.

Information
Number of attacked persons or entities related to media
6
Do they work as freelance or media?
Yes
Position in media
Reporter
Status of journalists
Data not available
Gender
Male
Age
Data not collected
Country
Riau
Full name or name of group
Identified
The name of perpetrator (individual/group)
The staff of the Bintan regency regional representative council
Background (state actor or non state actor)
Non-state actors (Political party, intolerance group, religious group, individual, private organization, private company, etc)
Gender
Male
Attack mention about gender background/sexual wording?
No
Date of incident
Type of incident
Verbal Intimidation