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Andreas Harsono (born 1965) is an Indonesian journalist, who helped found the Alliance of Independent Journalists (Jakarta), the Institute for the Studies on Free Flow of Information (Jakarta), South East Asia Press Alliance (Bangkok), Pantau Foundation (Jakarta), and author of the books "Agama" Saya Adalah Jurnalisme as well as Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Soeharto Indonesia.

Biography Born in Jember, East Java, in 1965 to Chinese Indonesian parents, he went to Satya Wacana Christian University in Salatiga, Central Java, in 1984, studying electronic engineering and spending times mostly with campus newspapers. He graduated in 1991 and went to Phnom Penh in 1993, freelancing for an Indonesian newspaper in Semarang.

He worked for The Jakarta Post daily in 1993-1994, helping setting up the Alliance of Independent Journalists in August 1994 to protest the banning of three news weeklies --Detik, Editor, Tempo-- by the President Soeharto government. In January 1995, he helped set up the Institute for the Studies on Free Flow of Information.

He studied journalism at Harvard University with the Nieman Fellowship in 2000, going back to Jakarta to edit the Pantau monthly magazine on media and journalism. He moved to Human Rights Watch in 2008, doing research on mostly discriminations and violence against gender, sexual, religious and ethnic minorities in Indonesia.

He covered discriminations against gender, sexual, ethnic and religious minorities in Indonesia, publishing several reports with Human Rights Watch.