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

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

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

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-135-2009

Dear friends,

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

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

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bylaw that endorses stoning to death for adultery and caning of up to 100 lashes for homosexuality should be repealed immediately, Amnesty International said on Thursda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

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-121-2009

Dear friends,

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,

ASA 57/002/2009

AHRC-STM-186-2009

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

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

Re: Human Rights Concerns in Indonesia

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

We the undersigned organizations call upon the U.S. government to strictly prohibit any U.S. cooperation with or assistance to the Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus).

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

TAPOL warmly welcomes the decision of the Papuan Amungme Tribal Council to file a lawsuit against the Indonesian Government, the Coordinating Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie and Freepo

Although the TNI commander Djoko Santoso claims the Free Papua Movement (OPM) was likely behind shooting attacks in West Papua on the weekend, it was reported in the Jakarta Globe (14 J

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and the West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) today praised continued congressional attention to issues of human rights in Indonesia and Tim

AI Index: ASA 21/012/2009

In a letter to the Australian Prime Minister, Australian-West Papuan support groups have called on the Prime Minister to cease all ties between the Australian military and the Indonesia

The Indonesia Human Rights Committee has written individually to the 16 Pacific Island Heads of Government to urge them to make West Papua a priority for discussion and action at the Au

Joint statement by the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (Kontras)

TAPOL has today called on the British Government to suspend its plan to conduct training for Kopassus, Indonesia's special forces, in October this year in view of reports of abuses perp

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-066-2009

Dear friends,

In light of the latest Human Rights Watch report with accusations that members of elite special forces, Kopassus, had acted with impunity in Papua to detain, torture and beat up ordinar

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-065-2009

Dear friends,

Training will go in one ear and out the other if the government does not make it clear to Kopassus that it will have zero tolerance for abuses by its soldiers.

AHRC-STM-148-2009

The victories of local parties in last April's provincial and district elections in Aceh are further confirmation of the success of the peace process underway since August 2005, says TA

AWPA (Sydney) has written to the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders who are meeting in Cairns in August, urging them to discus the deteriorating situation in West Papua at their meetin