JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian authorities deported an American journalist who was detained for more than six weeks after meeting with indigenous rights activists on Borneo island, his lawyer said Saturday. YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...Jacobson’s detention drew an outcry from rights activists and media groups amid fears it could signal a more dangerous landscape for other journalists in Indonesia. Three days later, Jacobson was freed. In 2017, two French journalists were deported for visa violations while shooting a documentary in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua, the scene of a separatist rebellion. Three months later, six Japanese making a documentary about indigenous people were also deported from Papua for lacking journalist visas.

Source: thestar February 01, 2020 00:33 UTC