Officials Stick by Ban on Australian Reporter
Indonesia’s government said it would stand by its decision to ban an Australian journalist who has reported on human rights abuses.
Lindsay Murdoch, 48, who writes for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age newspapers, has not been allowed to renew his journalist visa, which expired March 10.
The Foreign Ministry refused to say why the renewal was rejected. But authorities may have been angered by two of Murdoch’s reports. One quoted witnesses as saying Indonesian troops poured boiling water on a baby in the province of Aceh. The second focused on refugees from East Timor who allegedly were kidnapped by a Jakarta-based nationalist group.
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