Amnesty International: Indonesia Is Using Online Disinformation Campaigns to Brand Critics as ‘Foreign Agents’

Amnesty International documents coordinated state and state-aligned disinformation campaigns in Indonesia since October 2024 that label human rights defenders, journalists, and NGOs as "foreign agents," contributing to stigmatization, legal repression, and physical violence (including a March 2026 acid attack); the report links multiple social media campaigns to military-affiliated accounts and outlines patterns of decontextualized international ties used to fabricate conspiracy claims against targets.