Usman Hamid, Executive Director of Amnesty International Indonesia, considers the indictment to be a form of criminalization of the civil and political rights of citizens. “They only voiced their political opinions in a peaceful manner,” he said on Tuesday, June 9.

In hearings at the Balikpapan District Court in East Kalimantan, in early June, seven young men from Papua face five to 17 years imprisonment. The prosecutor accused them