Anti-sexual harassment advocates and legal experts have called on society and the media to stand up against sexual harassment by refusing to tolerate it, and to introduce a new code of conduct against harassment as well as against media malpractice within media organisations.

While the police investigation into the attack on a Catholic church in Yogyakarta is underway, many have been quick to express concern about the creeping intolerance facing the nation, contrary to our billing, and the world’s image of us, as – previously – a tolerant country.