Recent comments about the establishment of a military court raise serious questions about how best to ensure the accountability of armed forces personnel.

A demonstration involving about 500 West Papuan people was reported to have occurred in Abepura today.

Having been criticized by some leading states in the human rights field such as Canada and the Netherlands during the Universal Periodic Review session, Indonesia's good faith in human

Papuan Survivors need to build their own force to seek justice for themselves, so that they can become upholders of the truth even though the State still refuses to acknowledge their ex

This week the Indonesian Supreme Court set free Eurico Guterres, former leader of Dili's Aitarak militia.

Geneva – We, the Indonesian NGO Coalition on Universal Periodic Review (UPR), express our utter disappointment and deep regret over the UPR review of Indonesia.

United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510

Dr. Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20520

Dear Madam Secretary,

Amid increasing concern about Indonesia's harsh treatment of peaceful protestors in West Papua, more than 30 human rights groups and individuals worldwide are warning BP that its new $U

The US Department of State Country Reports on Human Right Practices (2007) acknowledges the continuing threat to human rights and to democracy posed by the Indonesian security forces, i

The NGO community thanks the Ministry of Finance for this opportunity to participate, and we appreciate the support and interest from Timor-Leste's Development Partners.

One teenage student is in hospital in a serious condition after being shot in the stomach when Indonesian security forces went on a shooting rampage against local people in the Paniai L

Dear Prime Minister

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
US State Department
2201 C St., NW
Washington, DC 20520

Dear Secretary Rice,

Indonesian Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono in Australia AWPA Calls on the Australian Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon to raise the human rights situation and the behavior of the Indon

According to latest reports from West Papua, more than a dozen Papuans have been arrested for taking part in peacefully unfurling their flag, the Morning Star (Kejora), some or all of w

London – The Indonesian government should order the immediate release of nine Papua activists arrested for displaying the Papuan Morning Star flag, Human Rights Watch said today.

Excellencies:

Rt Hon Winston Peters,
Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Parliament Buildings,

Wellington 18 March, 2008

Dear Winston Peters,

[The following statement was issued by Kontras, the Commission for the Disappeared and the Victims of Violence, together with eight other human rights NGOs, on 18 March 2008.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited Indonesia in late February.

The Hon Stephen Smith MP
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Parliament House
Canberra
ACT 2600

17 March 2007

Dear Mr Smith,

"Papuans still are subject to torture, ill-treatment, arbitrary arrests and unfair trials by the Indonesian authorities," said the World Council of Churches (WCC) programme executive fo

Washington, D.C.

Jaukak Gulton, a farmer activist aged 66, who was actively in the struggle over a land conflict in Mariah Hombang village, Hutabayu sub district, North Sumatra province, was found lifel

Beginning last Monday, the National Student League for Democracy (LMND) held two-day demonstrations in Jakarta to rally the campaign for the nationalisation of oil, gas, and mining indu

Joe Collins from the Australia West Papua Association said that "Mr.

Reporters Without Borders condemns the action of the police in arresting and beating a Timor Post journalist on the night of 22 February as he was travelling to the location in Kaikoli,

For Timor-Leste victims of the Japanese military's sexual slavery system – Restore their honor, give them their rights!

Congress of the United States
Committee on Foreign Affairs
U.S. House of Representatives
Washlngton, DC 20515

Telephone: (202) 225·5021

The UN must play a part in ending the lawlessness that culminated in this week's attempted assassinations of Timor-Leste's President José Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao an

The United Nations Security Council meeting on UNMIT has been delayed one week, until 21 February. Yesterday, La'o Hamutuk sent the following letter to the Security Council members.

We

1. declared West Papua as 'Land of Peace' on the 5th February 2002.

Meg Munn MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH

11 February 2008

Dear Ms Munn,

Joe Collins from the Australia West Papua Association said that AWPA is still concerned about the ties with the Indonesian military that the Lombok Treaty commits us to.

The death of Indonesia's former dictator, General Suharto, must lead to a re-evaluation of his long years at the head of a regime mired in military brutality and corruption.

Ambassador Cameron R. Hume
US Embassy
Jakarta, Indonesia
Via e-mail

Dear Ambassador Hume,

It is hard to exaggerate the damage inflicted on Indonesia by the former dictator Suharto who died today, during the 32 years when he ruled the country with a rod of iron until his down

As Indonesia's former dictator lay dying on 8 January, a coterie of the country's great-and-good gathered at his bedside to pay their last respects to a man responsible for more deaths

Government should investigate crimes of former dictator's regime

We would like to express our condolences to the family of Soeharto for their loss.

Abandons human rights for Indonesia to train its worst military and police units

Increased US support for the Indonesia military is not the way to promote reform or human rights accountability.

Congressman Eni F. H. Faleomavaega
Territory of American Samoa
US House of Representatives

Earlier this year, Indonesia succeeded in extending its membership of the UN Human Rights Council for a three-year term.

An open letter from a worldwide coalition of human rights organizations has called on the UN Security Council to act for substantive justice for the East Timorese people, as a council d

In 2006, the United Nations established a Human Rights Council in place of the discredited UN Commission for Human Rights.

Next Australian prime minister urged to ensure murderers are tried in Australia

The NSW Coroner, Dorelle Pinch has just released her judgment in the inquest held earlier this year into the deaths of the five Australian based journalists at Balibo in East Timor in 1

The current coroner's inquest into the death of an Australian-based journalist killed by Indonesian troops in October 1975 highlights "the need to pursue justice for the many tens of th