Widespread corruption in the forest industry is the dirty secret no one wants to talk about.

AI Index: ASA 21/024/2009

Regional Police Chief (Kapolda)
Inspector General Bekto Suprapto
Jayapura, Papua,
Indonesia

30 November 2009

It has been reported that up to 400 police and military have been put on alert in Mimika in anticipation of possible Morning Star flag raisings by the West Papuan people

As West Papuan national flag day approaches (1st December), the Indonesian security forces are ready to clamp down on anybody who attempts to raise the Morning Star flag in West Papua.

President Yudhoyono has a chance to show Papuans before the December 1 anniversary that Indonesia is a rights-respecting country that upholds free expression.

An Open Letter to the Attorney General of Indonesia by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-155-2009

Dear friends,

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-152-2009

Dear friends,

Washington, D.C. – The Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, Rep.

Ref: TG ASA 21/2009/45. AI Index: ASA 21/022/2009

Ref: TG ASA 21/2009/44. AI Index: ASA 21/021/2009

Gamawan Fauzi
Home Affairs Minister
Jl. Medan Merdeka Utara No. 7.
Jakarta Pusat
Indonesia

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-148-2009

Dear friends,

AI Index: ASA 21/020/2009

UA: 292/09 Index: ASA 21/018/2009

Australia West Papua Association, Sydney
PO Box 28, Spit Junction, Sydney, Australia 2088
email: bunyip@bigpond.net.au

Ref: TG ASA 21/2009/43. AI Index: ASA 21/019/2009

AHRC-OLT-030-2009

An Open Letter to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances by the Asian Human Rights Commission

AHRC-PRL-039-2009

Yoab Syatfle, a political activist in West Papua, has received repeated death threats.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-143-2009

Dear friends,

IPI warns Indonesia's commitment to democracy undermined

On October 20, La'o Hamutuk sent this letter to the member of the UN Security Council in New York, together with the annex which follows below.

It is to be hoped that Prime Minister Rudd will also raise the issue of West Papua on his trip to Indonesia for the inauguration of the Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on

Michael H. Posner
Assistant Secretary
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
U.S. Department of State
2201 C St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20520

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-135-2009

Dear friends,

Stoning and flogging constitute torture in any circumstances.

It is understandable that some West Papuan refugees who have been in exile in PNG since the 1980's may want to return home to reunite with family members and in the hope things have cha

AHRC-PRL-037-2009

AHRC-OLT-026-2009

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-121-2009

Dear friends,

A new Indonesian bylaw that endorses stoning to death for adultery and caning of up to 100 lashes for homosexuality should be repealed immediately, Amnesty International said on Thursda

A statement from an NGO coalition based in Aceh, Indonesia forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission

Hunger Alert Case: AHRC-HAC-006-2009

Dear friends,

West Papuan people are hopeful that the re-elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will fulfil his election promise to resolve the West Papuan issue.

Joint statement on the release of Martenus Bere – indicted for crimes against humanity in Timor-Leste

Alleged criminal defamation the wrong approach to Munir killing 00 Elaine Pearson, deputy Asia director

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-118-2009

Dear friends,

AHRC-STM-186-2009

ASA 57/002/2009

To Ex. Dr. Longuinos Monteiro,
General Commander of the Timor-Leste National Police

1 September 2009

A decade after Timor-Leste voted for independence, a culture of impunity continues to haunt the country's people.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-105-2009

Dear friends,

Australia West Papua Association, Sydney
PO Box 28, Spit Junction
Sydney, Australia 2088

Jacob Rumbiak
Foreign Affairs, West Papua National Authority
Provisional government of West Papua

Members of the US-based East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) will gather in Timor-Leste later this month to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the country's historic vote fo

It is very disappointing that the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) leaders have again failed to condemn the human right abuses being committed by the Indonesian security forces in West Papua.

Leaders of the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation were in Cairns North Queensland to push hard for the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to grant West Papua observer status and also

President Yudhoyono had some successes on human rights in his first term, but he needs to make sure those reforms really stick.

Dr. H. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
President, Republic of Indonesia
Gedung Bina Graha
Jl. Veteran 16
Jakarta Pusat

Re: Human Rights Concerns in Indonesia

More than 50 US organizations today urged the US government to "strictly prohibit any US cooperation with or assistance to the Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus)' in a