Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Zainal Abidin Bagir is the Director of the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies, a Master’s program at the Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University (www.crcs.ugm.ac.id). He is also the Indonesian Regional Coordinator of Pluralism Knowledge Programme, which is a collaborative project involving India, Indonesia, Uganda and the Netherlands. (www.hivos.net/pluralism) The Programme involves research on local practices of pluralism and publication of Annual Report on Indonesian Religious Life. He can be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].
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