Environmental journalist Philip Jacobson left Jakarta for New York after Indonesian officials dropped charges against him.
American journalist Philip Jacobson was deported from Indonesia on Friday, more than six weeks after authorities detained him for an alleged visa violation.
“It’s good to be out of prison and I’m relieved the prospect of a five-year jail sentence is no longer something I have to contemplate,” Jacobson, 31, said in a statement published by Mongabay, the California-based nonprofit environmental news site where he works as an editor.“His prolonged detention over this matter was profoundly concerning, but we are very pleased that authorities dismissed the charges and released him,” the website’s founder, Rhett W. Butler,Jacobson was detained Dec.
A Mongabay journalist since 2015, Jacobson has published several stories about corruption and environmental abuses by Indonesia’s lucrative palm oil industry. More than a dozen government ministries and security agencies must sign off on every journalist visa application, leading some, like Jacobson, to enter the country on business visas that allow bearers to attend meetings.
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