The PFMSea (Press Freedom Monitoring in Southeast Asia) coalition strongly condemns the escalating acts of terror targeting Tempo and its journalists in Indonesia. The delivery of a severed pig's head, followed by a box containing decapitated rats, represents a grave assault on press freedom and an attempt to silence critical reporting.

𝑷𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒎 𝑷𝒆𝒏𝒉, 𝑶𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓 1, 2024 — We, the undersigned communities, media organisations and civil society groups, are calling for the immediate release of Cambodian journalist Mech Dara who was charged with incitement and sent to pretrial detention by the Phnom Penh Capital Court on October 1, 2024.

Systematic violence was experienced by journalists in Indonesia while covering the demonstration against the revision of the Regional Head Elections Law (RUU Pilkada/Pilkada Law) at the Indonesian Parliament (DPR RI) building in Jakarta on Thursday, August 22, 2024.<

We, the undersigned media organisations, stand in solidarity with Malaysia's online portal Malaysiakini and the three journalists currently under police investigation over a news article that cited an anonymous police source.