University officials in Indonesia this month ordered a student news website to shut down its entire operation after it published a fictional same-sex short story. Student journalists could face up to 12 years in prison under Indonesia’s draconian pornography law, which forbids anything with ‘salacious content or sexual exploitation that violate the moral values of society’.

The 18 members of editorial staff at North Sumatra University (USU) were given just 48 hours to close the site and vacate the newsroom.

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