Expert Council

Andreas Harsono has covered Indonesia for Human Rights Watch since 2008. Before joining Human Rights Watch, he helped found the Jakarta-based Institute for the Studies on Free Flow of Information in 1995, and in 2003 he helped create the Pantau Foundation, a journalist training organization also based in Jakarta. A staunch backer of the free press, Harsono also helped establish Jakarta’s Alliance of Independent Journalists in 1994. Harsono began his career as a reporter for The Jakarta Post, later working for the Bangkok-based Nation and the Kuala Lumpur-based Star newspapers. In 2001, he edited Pantau, a monthly magazine on media and journalism in Jakarta. His published books include “Agama” Saya Adalah Jurnalisme in Indonesian, and in English, Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Soeharto Indonesia.