The Indonesian Journalists Association (印度尼西亞記者協會), or PWI, founded on February 9, 1946, is Indonesia’s oldest journalists’ organization. Under Suharto’s New Order regime, it was the only journalists’ union the government recognized. In October 1994, the International Press Institute protested to Suharto that the “state-sponsored” PWI was trying to keep members of the newly formed Alliance of Independent Journalists from covering that year’s APEC summit in Jakarta. In March 1995, the PWI’s Jakarta branch expelled 13 members who had signed the alliance’s founding declaration and pressed editors to fire them, according to Human Rights Watch. The PWI joined the first presidium of the Belt and Road Journalists Network, led by the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), in 2019. At the network’s 2023 forum in Beijing, PWI chairman Atal Depari, who also chaired the Confederation of ASEAN Journalists, called for “accurate, balanced and comprehensive coverage” of the Belt and Road Initiative. Such appeals echo Chinese official discourse, which routinely contrasts “objective” coverage of China with what officials portray as biased Western reporting. The joint declaration adopted at the same forum committed members to “objectively and truthfully report the achievements of the Belt and Road.” In October 2026, PWI representatives took part in a seminar in Nanjing on “elevating the discourse power of the Global South,” a framing drawn from the CCP concept of “discourse power” (話語權).