Reportage: The Face of Corruption in Aceh

This book, published by the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) through their Training and Fellowship Program, is a series of investigative stories examining corruption, cover-ups and allocations of public and international resources in post-tsunami Aceh. AJI, Indonesia’s largest independent journalists’ association, undertook the project through "Building on the Foundations,” a two-year training project funded jointly by Internews and USAID, “that supports the professional development of media in Aceh, North Sumatra, and throughout Java."

During the training of 20 journalists by AJI senior fellows, 10 proposals were chosen for investigation. AJI members then mentored the successful fellows through an intensive research and fact-checking process. The resulting stories include "how business is being done in rebuilding the devastated region, how the forests of Aceh are being sacrificed for illegal profits, and how members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) who disappeared under suspicious circumstances have yet to be found, one year after the peace with the government of Indonesia was won." Called "REPORTASE: Wajah Korupsi Di Aceh" in Bahasa Indonesian, the book will be distributed through media outlets, government divisions, aid agencies, and universities, and will have two sequel volumes resulting from two more training programmes on investigative journalism by the association.

Click here to read in English about the publication of this book.

Click here to read in Bahasa Indonesian about the publication of this book and to find links to downloadable PDFs of sections.