Last November, Jakarta-based Muhamad Heychael, program director at nonprofit media organization Remotivi, began offering small grants to local journalists to report on the nickel mines and smelters proliferating in remote corners of Indonesia’s far east. Heychael and his colleagues chose 10 journalists hailing from places like Morowali on the island of Sulawesi and Obi Island … Continue reading ‘Without us, no scrutiny’: Indonesia’s independent media count cost of US funding cuts