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Human Rights Day is an opportunity to remind everyone that digital rights are human rights: Everyone deserves to equally enjoy the benefits of technology and protection from its harms. To mark this event, EngageMedia is launching two research reports and a limited virtual screening of our Tech Tales film collection.
EngageMedia’s research seeks to provide an overview of the problems faced by civil society actors regarding the fulfilment of digital rights in Indonesia.
Sebagai upaya meningkatkan wawasan seputar hak digital, EngageMedia dan Wikimedia Indonesia berkolaborasi untuk meningkatkan konten mengenai hak digital dalam Bahasa Indonesia.
In line with the international celebration of World Internet Day, EngageMedia on October 30 launched Tech Tales: Films about Digital Rights in the Asia-Pacific, a collection of eight films that highlight human rights stories in the digital age.
In Indonesia, digital spaces are the site of a challenging balancing act between religious expression and hate speech.
EngageMedia is hiring a Digital Rights Program Officer (Indonesia) who will support the implementation of our digital rights initiatives in the country, working closely with the program team to support coordination and logistics, community development, communications and outreach, monitoring and reporting.
Since 2016, Indonesia is recorded to have the highest number of VPN users in the world. This articl discusses what a VPN is, what drives its high usage in Indonesia and how one can safely choose a VPN for daily use. The article was originally published in Bahasa Indonesia on Kompas, and has been translated to English on EngageMedia.org.
On April 30, 2021, parts of Papua were cut off from the internet amid a long-standing dispute between Papua and the Indonesian government that continues to intensify. Internet was restored on June 8, but uncertainty over the region’s special autonomy status necessitates staying vigilant against similar digital rights violations going forward.
EngageMedia hosted last May 7, 2021, "The Labour Behind the Glamorous Industrial Revolution 4.0", a webinar that sought to flesh out the realities that workers in the digital space are facing, and the lack of protection Indonesian labour laws are affording them.
