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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Natashya Gutierrez

Student journalists in Indonesia face backlash after reporting on sexual harassment

Students protest outside a court in Ambon, Indonesia, in support of the Lintas student magazine.
Students protest outside a court in Ambon, Indonesia, in support of the Lintas student magazine. Photograph: Yolanda Agne/HRW

Yolanda Agne, 23, was just months away from graduating in journalism at a university in Maluku province, Indonesia, when she was banned from finishing her studies.

In March last year, the student magazine Lintas – of which Agne was then editor-in-chief – published a damning piece on the prevalence of sexual harassment on her campus at Ambon Islamic State Institute. Among the alleged perpetrators were eight lecturers, with incidents dating over a six-year period.

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