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• TNI providing military training for FPI Islamic vigilantes – Jawa Post (JPPN). January 7, 2017
• Is the FPI anti-Pancasila? This is the TNI's chief's answer – Java Post. January 17, 2017
• Gubernatorial candidate Baswedan promises to end discrimination against 'Hijabers' – Detik News. January 20, 2017
• Ahok says Wiji Thukul film 'important part of New Order history' – Kumparan. January 22, 2017
• Workers praise Wiji Thukul film but lament failure to show his labour activism – Kabar Buruh. January 22, 2017
• Indonesia blocks websites circulating #LetWestPapuaVote petition – Okezone. January 26, 2017
• Police block Papuan solidarity action during President Widodo's Yogya visit – CNN Indonesia. January 27, 2017

• Ahok's defense team accused of using black magic to influence blasphemy trial – Harian Terbit. February 3, 2017
• VP Kalla: Inequality is dangerous because 'most rich people are Chinese, most poor are Muslim' –  Tempo.co. February 26, 2017

• Students in Bandung suspended over sale of leftist books – Campus News. March 1, 2017
• Protest during Saudi King Salman visit broken up by police, dozens arrested – BBC Indonesia. March 2, 2017
• Papua students in Jakarta call for closure of Freeport, self-determination – KBR. March 3, 2017
• Papuan students in Malang call on government to close Freeport – Merdeka.com. March 3, 2017
• IWD rally in Yogyakarta highlights child marriage, sexual violence – Detik News. March 8, 2017
• Trade unions commemorate IWD in Jakarta with calls to end discrimination, sexual violence – Kompas.com. March 8, 2017
• Women activists in Bandung say IWD must become fight for equality, against capitalism – Pojok Bandung. March 8, 2017
• Commemorating IWD, Pekanbaru students take up human trafficking, violence against women – Tribune Pekanbaru. March 8, 2017
• Activists in Makassar mark IWD with calls to end violence against women and children – Tribune Timur. March 8, 2017
• Bali activist commemorate IWD with demand for equal rights, decent wages – KBR. March 8, 2017
• Workers commemorating IWD in Jakarta demand end to sexual harassment and violence against women – BBC Indonesia. March 8, 2017
• IWD rally in Yogyakarta calls for 100% wage rise, free healthcare – Tribune Jogja. March 8, 2017
• Journalists in Pontianak mark IWD with calls to protect women from sexual, domestic violence – Detik News. March 8, 2017

• Narcotics agency chief says calls to legalisation marijuana a 'betrayal of the country' – Kumparan. April 6, 2017
• Protesters in Jakarta say Freeport has brought no benefits to the Papuan people – CNN Indonesia. April 7, 2017
• Protest calling for Freeport closure in Yogya broken up by police – Tribune Jogja. April 7, 2017
• Students in Malang call for closure, expulsion of Freeport from Papua – Surya Malang. April 7, 2017
• Papuan students in Makassar call on government to close Freeport – Makassar Today. April 7, 2017
• After saying religion and politics don't mix, Widodo now says they're connected – Sindo News. April 8, 2017
• Students in Palu commemorate Kartini Day with call for end to violence against women – Pembebasan. April 22, 2017

• May Day 2017: Abolish outsourcing and exploitative apprenticeships – Tempo.co. May 1, 2017
• May Day rally in Yogyakarta highlights low wages, poverty – Detik News. May 1, 2017
• May Day rally in Aceh calls for wage increases, fasting month bonuses – Detik News. May 1, 2017
• Freeport workers demand end to criminalization, intimidation of trade unions – Metro TV. May 1, 2017
• 'Sewer rats' enliven May Day rally in Jakarta – Liputan 6. May 1, 2017
• Workers in Jakarta use May Day to call for end to forced evictions in the city – Liputan 6. May 1, 2017
• May Day rallies in Bandung highlight low wages, lack of healthcare services – Tempo.co. May 1, 2017
• On May Day, West Java farmers 'bury themselves alive' to protest against forced evictions – Java Post. May 1, 2017
• May Day in Bali enlivened by dance, demands for wage increase – Detik News. May 1, 2017
• Like being pursued by the ghost of communism – Nurcholis ART. May 5, 2017
• Anti-communist vigilantes close down Wiji Thukul art exhibition in Yogyakarta – Detik News. May 8, 2017
• Making workers hate Ahok – Tirto.id. May 8, 2017
• Home Affairs Minister: HTI is anti-Pancasila, but there's no problem with the FPI – Kumparan. May 12, 2017
• Candle lit vigil in for Ahok in Makassar broken up by Islamic vigilantes – Detik News. May 13, 2017
• Activists call for full investigation into Wiji Thukul art exhibition closure – Kompas.com. May 16, 2017
• Security chief Wiranto says government to combat 'deviant ideologies' on campus – RMOL. May 18, 2017
• Jokowi: Anti-Pancasila and communist groups, we'll clobber them, stamp them out – Kompas.com. May 19, 2017
• Lawmakers call for 'disruptive' environmental groups to be closed down – Sindo News. May 20, 2017
• Police close down May 1998 event following threats my Islamic militia group – Tempo.co. May 27, 2017
• After HTI, government mulls banning other social organisations – Tempo.co. May 31, 2017

• Jakarta deputy governor elect elaborates on plan to recruit thugs as debt collectors – Kompas.com. June 2, 2017
• Military initiates 171717 'love and affection' movement to safeguard national unity – Detik News. June 13, 2017
• Congregation walkout after Idul Fitri sermon turns into tirade against 'blasphemer' Ahok – Viva News. June 25, 2017
• Islamic leader calls for Starbucks boycott over CEO's support for LGBT, same-sex marriage – Republika. June 29, 2017

• Lawmaker wants to dissolve 'unnecessary' anti-graft, human rights watchdogs – Merdeka.com. July 3, 2017
• Education system needs reform, but schooling cannot be free: Education Minister – Tempo. July 6, 2017
• Hundreds of KNPB activists arrested by police in Nabire – Tabloid Jubi. July 7, 2017
• Opportunistic Islamic organisations call on government to ban radical, anti-Pancasila groups – Detik News. July 7, 2017
• Justice Minister says new powers to ban organisations won't just be used against HTI – Arrahmah News. July 12, 2017
• Legal Aid Foundation statement on new social organisation law – Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation. July 12, 2017
• DPR Twitter poll on Perppu removed after majority of respondents express disapproval – Kiblat.net. July 13, 2017
• What are the political party's positions on the new social organisations law? – Detik News. July 14, 2017
• Anti-Ahok protesters now defending Trump business partner and 'infidel' Hary Tanoe – CNN Indonesia. July 14, 2017
• Hard-line Islamic group denies receiving money to defend 'infidel' business tycoon Hary Tanoe – Tempo. July 14, 2017
• LBH Jakarta: 'Anyone labeled anti-Pancasila or supporting separatism will be eliminated' – Liputan6. July 15, 2017
• Police already have list of anti-Pancasila groups to be disbanded – Tribune. July 17, 2017
• Security chief warns of terrorists infiltrating social organisations, government institutions – Detik News. July 18, 2017
• Perppu Ormas: Muzzling democracy, elite conflict and the rise of fundamentalism – Arah Juang. July 2017

• International People's Tribunal calls for Wiranto to be sacked after workshop on 1965 closed down – Tirto.id. August 2, 2017
• International People's Tribunal 1965 event forced to move after being closed down by police – CNN Indonesia. August 2, 2017
• Protests against Papua's 'Act of Free Choice' held in several Indonesian cities – Tabloid JUBI. August 3, 2017
• Defense Minister warns students against threat of 'liberalism, communism, socialism and radicalism' – Jakarta Greater. August 4, 2017
• Deemed 'neo-communist', paramilitary group shuts down film showing on radical poet Wiji Thukul – Fajar. August 8, 2017
• Solidarity actions around the country slam Deiyai shooting, militarism – Arah Juang. August 10, 2017
• Max Lane: After independence, where to now for Indonesia? – Suara.com. August 13, 2017
• 100s arrested as police and reactionary groups block protests against New York Agreement – Suara Papua. August 15, 2017
• Hundreds of activists arrested in three cities during rallies against New York Agreement – Tabloid Jubi. August 15, 2017
• Pro-independence protests in Jayapura against New York Agreement end in clashes – Sindo News. August 15, 2017
• Governor elect Baswedan calls on FPI to shed negative image, support diversity – Tempo. August 19, 2017
• Tommy Suharto attends anniversary of Islamic vigilante group FPI – Detik News. August 19, 2017
• Student protest in Bandung rejects social organisation law, rise of militarism – Ayo Bandung. August 21, 2017
• Makassar students rally against militarism, reject national security law – Online 24. August 21, 2017
• Yogyakarta students reject militarism on campus, attacks on democracy – Arah Juang. August 23, 2017
• Four police officers found guilty over fatal Deiyai shooting ordered to apologise – CNN Indonesia. August 31, 2017

• Police try to silence anti-mining protests by charging activist with 'spreading communism' – Tempo. September 4, 2017
• Tent protest at Palace to stay until Jokowi fulfils pledge to stop cement factory – Tempo. September 4, 2017
• Prabowo confidant Fadli Zon says broadcasting G303-PKI film again will show 'communist brutality' – Hidayatullah. September 11, 2017
• State Film company says anti-communist film can gauge public reaction, open space for discussion – Tempo. September 14, 2017
• Home Affairs Minister denies reports he prohibited televising of anti-communist film – Kompas.com. September 15, 2017
• Army orders screening of anti-communist propaganda film to counter efforts to 'distort history' – Tempo. September 15, 2017
• Rights watchdog says seminar closure makes Widodo's commitment to human rights look hypocritical – Kompas.com. September 16, 2017
• Accusations that 1965 seminar a communist party declaration is a 'tired old joke' – Tempo. September 16, 2017
• Banning of 1965 seminar an 'extraordinary step back for democracy in Indonesia' – Tempo. September 16, 2017
• Police close down seminar on 1965 anti-communist purge after protests by nationalist groups – Media Indonesia. September 16, 2017
• Army worried official narrative on 1965 affair no longer dominant: Activist – Tempo. September 16, 2017
• Islamic party PKS supports army's efforts to strengthen public vigilance against communism – RMOL. September 17, 2017
• LBH accuses hard-line general, anti-Ahok protest organiser of being behind seminar attack – Detik News. September 18, 2017
• Jokowi wants new G30S-PKI film made so millennials can 'understand dangers of communism' – Detik News. September 18, 2017
• YLBHI says attack on their offices linked to Jokowi's call to 'clobber the PKI' – Detik News. September 18, 2017
• Anti-communist issue being used to divide people, create political instability: Rights watchdog – Kompas.com. September 18, 2017
• Hard-line general calls for YLBHI to be closed down for 'spreading communist ideas' – CNN Indonesia. September 18, 2017
• Hard-line general admits meeting with anti-communist protesters prior to attack on 1965 seminar – Tempo. September 19, 2017
• Rights group says new film on 1965 needed but one that is objective, not just propaganda – Kompas.com. September 19, 2017
• Who was behind the attack on the on the YLBHI offices – Tirto.id. 19 September, 2017
• TNI chief challenged to screen Jagal and Senyap, not just anti-communist propaganda film – Viva. September 20, 2017
• TNI chief claims ignorance of Senyap and Jagal, contradicting own order to block screenings – Merdeka. September 22, 2017
• Trade union to follow TNI's lead with own screenings of New Order anti-communist film – Koran Perdjoeangan. September 23, 2017
• Anti-communist propaganda film 'made with the aim of making people hate the PKI' – Kompas.com. September 23, 2017
• Survey finds overwhelming majority of Indonesians don't believe 'communist revival' propaganda – Kompas.com. September 29, 2017
• Prabowo, Islamic party supporters dominate those convinced of 'red scare': Survey – Tribune. September 29, 2017
• Gerindra, Democrats declare support for 299 anti-communist rally – Tribune. September 30, 2017

• In time, we will all be communists – Mojok. October 2, 2017
• Max Lane brings the millennial generation closer to the works of Pramoedya – Surya Malang. October 3, 2017
• Teachers must instill the knowledge and will to fight for a better future: Australian scholar – Surya Malang. October 3, 2017
• Indonesia to check accuracy of secret US documents on army plans to overthrow Sukarno – CNN Indonesia. October 18, 2017
• Declassified embassy cables confirm army plot to overthrow President Sukarno – Detik News. October 18, 2017
• Defense minister can't comment on US documents because he was 'still a kid' back in 1965 – CNN Indonesia. October 18, 2017
• Minister: It's not just the police, TNI's responsibility to confront anti-Pancasila groups – Kompas.com. October 18, 2017
• Despite release of US documents on 1965, TNI to stick with its version of history – BBC Indonesia. October 19, 2017
• Release of US documents on 1965 reinforces International People's Tribunal verdict – Kompas.com. October 20, 2017
• Commemorating Youth Pledge Day, students say education policy is in retreat under Widodo – Indonesia Berita. October 23, 2017
• With little fanfare, House passes draconian Perppu on social organisations into law – Kompas.com. October 24, 2017
• Activists find 10 new mass graves containing victims of 1965 anti-communist purge – CNN Indonesia. October 24, 2017
• Youth Pledge Day commemoration in Makassar ends in clash, 6 police motorcycles set on fire – Detik News. October 28, 2017
• Jokowi invites notorious Suharto era thugs to cooperate in building the nation – Detik News. October 28, 2017
• Widodo calls on New Order vigilante group to be bulwark of national unity – Tempo. October 29, 2017
• Draconian Ormas law will also target communist groups: Government – Detik News. October 30, 2017

• Said Iqbal now says Ahok was 'a better protector of the people' than new Jakarta governor Baswedan – Kompas.com. November 2, 2017
• Drop in consumption due to weakening purchasing power, not shift to online shopping – Kata Data. November 3, 2017
• Angry FPI lawyer accuses Jakarta governor Baswedan of 'using them to get elected' – Detik News. November 4, 2017
• High-school students uninstall WhatsApp over pornography fears – Detik News. November 7, 2017
• Mimika police chief denies Free Papua Movement has taken anyone hostage – Tagar. November 9, 2017
• OPM says reports of hostage taking, rape just cheap TNI propaganda – Viva. November 12, 2017
• Freeport Indonesia employee denies co-workers held hostage by OPM – KBR. November 13, 2017
• Slum dwellers who rejected Ahok over evictions fall victim to same policies under new governor – Tempo. November 13, 2017
• Papua provincial government insists armed separatist group isn't holding people hostage – Warta Plus. November 13, 2017
• Activist renew call for Papua independence amid alleged 'hostage' standoff – CNN Indonesia. November 14, 2017
• Despite Jakarta governor's wage betrayal, why no call for a national strike? – Mojok. November 15, 2017
• Activist group discovers 16 new mass graves from 1965 anti-communist purge – BBC Indonesia. November 16, 2017
• International academics call for withdrawal of TNI from West Papua – CNN Indonesia. November 20, 2017
• Ice cream factory workers strike demanding permanent employment, decent wages – Go Bekasi. November 20, 2017
• Jakarta deputy governor Uno defends money for paramilitary, right-wing vigilante groups – Tempo. November 22, 2017
• Manado students hold solidarity action with striking ice cream workers – Tribune. November 27, 2017

• Protesters in Jakarta mark December 1 with demands for self-determination, closure of Freeport – Warta Kota. December 1, 2017
• Peaceful rally in Jakarta calls for Freeport closure, self-determination for West Papua – CNN Indonesia. December 1, 2017
• December 1 anniversary commemorations in Papua marred by arrests, intimidation – KBR. December 1, 2017
• TNI signs MoU with Education Ministry to formalise 'Military into the Schools' program – Detik News. December 4, 2017
• Students march in Papua to mark 3 years since bloody Paniai shootings – Tabloid JUBI. December 8, 2017
• Students reject new Yogyakarta airport, call for end to forced evictions – Detik News. December 9, 2017
• Jokowi shocked, budget allocations for meetings more than core activities – Tempo. December 9, 2017
• International Human Rights Day rally in Yogya calls on government to resolve human rights cases – Tribune Yogya. December 10, 2017
• Fuel prices in Papua only go down when Jokowi visits – Kompas.com. December 18, 2017
• Marking Trikora declaration, protests calling for Papuan self-determination held in 14 cities – Suara Papua. December 19, 2017
• Police 'evacuate' Papuan protesters after clash with New Order vigilante group – Detik News. December 19, 2017
• Almost 10,000 workers sacked in 2017: Department of Labour – CNN Indonesia. December 29, 2017