IndonesiaLeaks: New Platform for Whistleblowers and Muckrakers
From the post:
Ten media houses and five civil society organizations in Indonesia announced a collaboration this week to form a digital platform for whistleblowers.
IndonesiaLeaks will allow the public a platform to anonymously and securely submit information, documents and data sets related to the public interest. The information received by IndonesiaLeaks will then be vetted and verified for use in investigative reports by the ten affiliated media organizations.
The secure online platform is crucial in Indonesia due to the lack of whistleblower protection schemes. Those who take risks leaking information on offenses happening in their institutions are often prosecuted and intimidated.
“IndonesiaLeaks is designed as a collaborative platform between ten media houses to share tasks, responsibilities and resources, as well as risks,” said Wahyu Dhyatmika, the editor of IndonesiaLeaks member publication Tempo.co, at the platform’s launch in Jakarta on Thursday. “By creating this partnership, we hope the impacts of investigative journalism will be bigger and spread widely.”
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A welcome surprise as a hard year for the media draws to a close. The chest pounding antics of the American President aren’t the only woes for the media in 2017, but they have been some of the most visible.
IndonesiaLeaks promises to give the sordid side of government (is there another side?) greater visibility. This collaboration will provide strength in numbers and resources for its participants, furthering their ability to practice investigative journalism.
I don’t read Indonesian but the website is attractive and focuses on the secure submission of documents. I rather like that, clean, focused, and to the point.
The collaboration partners to date:
- Auriga
- Bisnis Indonesia
- Change.org
- CNN Indonesia
- Greenpeace
- Independen.id
- Indonesia Corruption Watch
- Indonesian Network for Investigative Journalism (Jaringan Indonesia untuk Jurnalisme Investigasi/JARING) (member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network)
- The Jakarta Post
- KBR
- LBH Pers
- Liputan6
- Sindo
- Suara.com
- Tempo.co
Support these collaborators and other investigative journalists at every opportunity. You never know when one of their stories will impact your reporting on a frothing, tantrum throwing, press hater closer to the United States.