News related to Jokowi becoming a finalist for OCCRP's 2024 organized crime and corruption, published by cnnindonesia.com on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, has been deleted. The information came from the OCCRP report entitled "Corrupt Person of the Year 2024" which was released on its official website on Tuesday.
The nominations were from readers, journalists, person of the year judges, and other parties in the global Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) network. The news has been published on the cnnindonesia.com website via the following link:
https://www.cnnindonesia.com/internasional/20241231095641-106-1182518/j…
However, on Tuesday night, the news had been deleted, so it could no longer be accessed by the public. When the link was clicked, it only read "404 oops! page not found, probably page has been deleted".
The report contains information that the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, is a finalist for the organized crime and corruption figure according to OCCRP.
Jokowi is one of several other finalists who were most widely chosen this year. Other figures who entered the category include Kenyan President William Ruto, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina, the recently ousted Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, and Indian Businessman Gautam Adani.
AJI noted that the deletion of this news was self-censorship, one of the categories of violence against the Press.