Bina Bektiati is an Indonesian journalist and author. A writer forTempo magazine, she helped found theAlliance of Independent Journalists afterTempo was banned in 1994. Briefly exiled from Indonesia, she won theCourage in Journalism Award in 1997.[1] After returning to Indonesia, she is today an editor atTempo, and a regular contributor to theJakarta Post.[2]
In 1991 Bektiati started writing forTempo, reporting about politics. In 1994, theSuharto regime bannedTempo, revoking its license and replacing it with a government-controlled publication. Bektiati refused to continue writing, joined otherTempo colleagues in a legal challenge to the government's ban, and helped found theAlliance of Independent Journalists in Indonesia.[2]
Unable to find work, Bektiati left Indonesia for Australia in 1995, writing as a correspondent for a newspaper based inEast Java. Returning toJakarta in 1996, she worked withTempo colleagues to set up an online version of the magazine.[1] She was among the Indonesian journalists who helpedGoenawan Mohamad establish theInstitute for the Study of Free Flow of Information (Institut Studi Arus Informasi, ISAI).[3] She then joinedDetektif Dan Romantika (D&R), a weekly news magazine, edited by a formerTempo writer. She continued writing on politics, often under a pseudonym, until Suharto's fall in 1998.[1]
Memoar orang-orang Singkawang [People from Singkawang: a memoir]. Jakarta: Galeri Foto Jurnalistik Antara, 2011.
(ed. with Nugroho Dewanto)Surat dari Rantau [Letters from Foreign Lands]. Kreasi Mitramedia Utama, 2015.
(ed.)Kita bisa berdaya : pemberdayaan tenaga kerja migran sebagai duta bangsa dengan misi memperkenalkan kebaikan dan kelebihan Indonesia dimana-mana [We can be empowered: empowering migrant workers as ambassadors of the nation with a mission to introduce the goodness and advantages of Indonesia everywhere] by Indah Morgan. Jakarta: PT. Merah Putih Sejahtera, 2016.ISBN9786026028204
