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UNSC Prez Indonesia Blocks Press on Twitter While Media There Are Attacked on COVID

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UN GATE, August 28 – In the United Nations from which SG Antonio Guterres has banned Inner City Press 787 days for asking about his complicity in the killing of civilians in Cameroon and their mass imprisonment by China in Xinjiang, on August 3 Inner City Press wrote to the Indonesia Mission, as incoming UN Security Council president, with questions about Cameroon, Somalia and UNsexploitation.

There was no answer from IndonesiaUNNY. As the month went on, the Indonesia Mission blocked Inner City Press on Twitter, amid attacks in Indonesia itself on media criticizing the government for its COVID-19 response, see below.

 In early August Inner City Press tweeted the questions, and re-submitted them the comment box on the Mission's website. Nothing. This as Indonesia's foreign minister Retno Marsudi bragged online, "Under the theme “Advancing Sustainable Peace, Indonesia assumes Presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of August 2020."

  Apparently Indonesia PR Dian Triansyah Djani could only handle questions from pre-screened in-house correspondents, one of whose media has no story by her since 2017, another with no stories at all, at least one - actually, more -- a repeated #MeToo violator.

  He took only six questioners, none on sub Saharan Africa. One of the six was a long retired photographer of UN bribers, who asked about tourism in Bali. As Inner City Press live tweeted, questions came to it about West Papua, on which we'll have more. Djani told a correspondent in a leafy backyard that he, too, lives in New Rochelle, and pitched Batik face masks. It was pathetic. He gave a bonus round for a Maki plant to ask him to trash Armenia about Nogorno Karabakh. We'll have more on this.

 Indonesia has not said a word about the slaughter in Cameroon, nor about the Tel Aviv UN sexploitation exposed by Inner City Press.

  The Program belatedly went up - with countries on which Indonesia ignored and censored questions: Somalia, where UNMAS sent local staff to be killed, and Yemen. There will be COVID (which the UN helped spread in South Sudan) on August 12; closed on Lebanon on August 11, closed on Syria August 5, closed on North Korea August 27, Middle East August 25 and on other days. Nothing on Cameroon or DRC.

  After Inner City Press again on August 4 covered and live tweeted Indonesia's and Djani's session with tame UN NGOs, including one which after lobbying to oust Inner City Press praised Indonesia's human rights record without mentioned West Papua - as Inner City Press immediately did - the Indonesian Mission blocked @InnerCityPress on Twitter. Photo here

  This is a pattern: Media organisations in Indonesia have reported a spate of digital attacks directed at critical coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Indonesia are deeply concerned that the hacking attacks are aimed at restricting critical reporting and suppressing media freedom.  At least four media organisations have been targeted in an unprecedented series of digital attacks. On August 21, the Tempo news website was replaced with a black screen with the word ‘hoax’, in bold red font splashed across it. The same day articles, including two articles critical of the Indonesian intelligence agency’s role in the pandemic response, were removed from the website of tirto.id.  The Director of the Legal Aid Institute for the Press (LBH Pers), Ade Wahyudin, on August 21 said the hacking is a legal violation. Wahyudin said there are mechanisms to deal with news reports deemed to be false, which involve submitting the right of reply or filing a complaint to the Press Council.

Indonesia has been president of the UN Security Council. This is the cesspool of censorship into which Guterres has turned the UN.

When Guterres' spokes- / hatchetman Stephane Dujarric holds his noon briefings this month while refusing all questions from Inner City Press despite an on camera promise. And Indonesia? We'll report.

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