Indonesia

Knight Fellow Harry Surjadi has vastly increased coverage of stories that affect all Indonesians, and has already forced a local government to address a serious pollution issue.

Indonesia: Launch a Mobile Environmental News Service for Rural Communities

Harry Surjadi has recruited and trained more than 150 citizen journalists living in the most-remote areas of Borneo to send news reports via text messaging using the FrontlineSMS system to Ruai TV, a station in the provincial capital. The service also allows subscribers from mainstream media, the government, and activist organizations to receive the news reports.

East Timor and Indonesia: Journalism Training (2002)

Knight International Journalism Fellow Jim Simon completed four months of journalism training in East Timor and Indonesia in 2002, partnering with the Timor-Leste Journalists Association and the University of Padjadjaran. He also served as a "Tsunami" Knight Fellow in 2005.

China and Indonesia: Journalism Training (2006)

Knight International Journalism Fellow Georgia Scott completed four months of journalism training in China and Indonesia in 2006.

Indonesia: Journalism Training (1996)

Knight International Journalism Fellow Erik Ninomiya completed three months of journalism training in Indonesia in 1996, partnering with the the Jawa Pos News Network.

Indonesia and Singapore: Journalism Training (2000)

Knight International Journalism Fellow Margaret Kilgore completed four months of journalism training in Indonesia and Singapore in 2000, partnering with the the Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC).

Indonesia: Journalism Training (1999)

Knight International Journalism Fellow Edward Cowan completed three months of journalism training in Indonesia in 1999.

Reporting Across Cultures: Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age

Journalists from across the Arab world, North America, Europe, Pakistan and Indonesia participated in an online training course entitled “Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age.” Select participants were chosen to participate in a conference in Alexandria, Egypt in February 2010 that focused on freedom of expression and reporting on Muslim-West relations.

Indonesia: Expand Environmental Coverage

Knight International worked with newspapers and radio stations to create weekly environmental reports in Indonesia, a country facing deforestation, over-fishing, mining and pollution.

Oct 92008

Newspaper Reports Change Local Government Policies

There are 14 hospitals in Pekanbaru City (Riau Province), Sumatera Island, Indonesia. Six of them have no waste water treatment facilities. All the untreated waste water from those hospitals streams out to city drain and then to the river. And seven hospitals have no incinerators to burn medical wastes. They dump all medical wastes to public waste dump site. How did media change the government policies on hospital wastes?

There are 14 hospitals in Pekanbaru City (Riau Province), Sumatera Island, Indonesia.