October 30, 2025 | 02:54 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Through an electronic mail on Saturday, October 11, 2025, Nany Afrida received the announcement of her election as President of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific. IFJ Global Secretary-General Anthony Bellanger stated that the General Chair of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Indonesia garnered 60.66 percent of the vote and defeated the incumbent Sabina Inderjit from India.
For the first time, a journalist from Indonesia leads IFJ Asia-Pacific, an organization that shelters 60 trade unions and journalists’ organizations in 40 countries. Nany will lead the organization until 2028. She received support from journalists from the Middle East, such as Palestine and the United Arab Emirates, Timor-Leste, Philippines, Pakistan, Australia, and New Zealand.
From her hometown in Banda Aceh, Nany accepted an exclusive interview with Tempo reporters, Friski Riana and Yosea Arga Pramudita, via teleconference. The Editor-in-Chief of Independen.id highlighted the alarming condition of press freedom in Asia-Pacific. In many countries, journalists experience violence, and are even murdered.
In Indonesia, the condition is no different. Nany considers the state of press freedom in Indonesia to be getting worse during the Prabowo Subianto administration. “Terror and violence are becoming more blatant,” she said on Monday, October 20, 2025.
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