Media groups sound alarm after Indonesian magazine is sent mutilated animal carcasses

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Press state groups person called connected Indonesian authorities to analyse what they called acts of intimidation against a mag known for its hard-hitting investigative reporting, aft it was doubly sent mutilated carnal carcasses past week.

Tempo Magazine, a work that was doubly banned erstwhile Indonesia was nether authoritarian regularisation decades ago, was sent a pig's caput connected Wednesday and six headless rats 3 days later, it said connected Monday.

It is not instantly wide who sent the packages and Tempo said they came without messages oregon claims of responsibility.

"This panic enactment is terrifying," its lawman editor-in-chief Bagja Hidayat told Reuters. "This connection isn't conscionable for Tempo but each reporters successful Indonesia."

Bagja said Tempo received a connection connected its Instagram relationship aft receiving the pig's head, which said "terror" would not stop.

Editor-in-chief Setri Yasra said the incidents had been reported to Indonesia's main quality rights body, but Tempo did not fishy immoderate circumstantial organisation of sending the packages arsenic it published captious investigations each week.

Press state and rights groups, including Amnesty International and the Alliance of Independent Journalists, decried the enactment and called for a constabulary investigation.

The nationalist constabulary did not instantly respond connected Monday to a petition for comment. On Sunday, a elder constabulary authoritative was quoted by media arsenic saying they were investigating the incidents.

Beh Lih Yi, Asia programme coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said Tempo was the unfortunate of a deliberate enactment of intimidation.

"Tempo is good known internationally for its fiercely autarkic reporting, utilizing this playbook from autocrats elsewhere simply volition not work," she said successful a statement, urging President Prabowo Subianto to condemn the enactment and uphold property freedom.

The authorities remained committed to property state and determination was nary media censorship successful Indonesia, said Hasan Nasbi, a spokesperson for Prabowo's office.

Hasan had past week said Tempo should navigator the pig's head, a remark that drew ire connected societal media for its perceived insensitivity.

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(Reporting by Stanley Widianto and Ananda Teresia; Editing by Martin Petty)