The Timor Sea Justice Campaign today labelled the Australian Government's decision to discontinue aid funding to 13 East Timorese Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) as political interf

The decision yesterday by the State Department to override Congress-imposed restrictions on US military relations with Indonesia is a grave setback for Indonesian democracy and human ri

The Australia West Papua Association (Sydney) calls on the Australian Government to follow the Dutch governments example and commission a study into our own involvement in the so called

The 1969 Act of Free Choice, intended to be an act of self-determination by the people of Indonesian-occupied West Papua, was doomed to failure from the outset suggests a Dutch governme

The Pacific Concerns Resource Centre expresses alarm and disgust at recent news that Australia has signed a new Security Treaty with Indonesia.

TAPOL, the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign, strongly condemns the decision of the police in Jayapura to ban an action planned for tomorrow, 15 November, to welcome the launch in The Net

Australian aid agency (AusAID) has effectively 'blacklisted' 13 East Timorese NGOs for speaking out over East Timor's maritime boundary dispute with Australia.

A long-awaited report commissioned by the Dutch government into West Papua's controversial incorporation into Indonesia will be launched at the Institute of Dutch History in the Hague n

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today praised congressional conferees for agreeing to maintain some restrictions on U.S.

Senator Robert Hill
Minister for Defence
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

31 October 2005

Re: resumption of ties with the Indonesian military.

The Australia West Papua Association (Sydney) believes it is now time for West Papua to be granted observer status at the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum in PNG.

The Indonesia Human Rights Committee has sent an urgent fax to newly elected Prime Minister Rt Hon Helen Clark urging her to ensure that West Papua is highlighted at this year's Pacific

Washington – Indonesia s failure to reform its abusive military makes it essential for the US Congress to maintain its restrictions on US military assistance, Human Rights Watch said to

Melanesian Solidarity National Facilitating Committee for Free West Papua, Papua New Guinea is calling on the Senior Official currently meeting in Suva, Fiji to put West Papua as a sepa

Green Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has joined calls for the UN to hold an independence referendum in West Papua after the Green Party adopted a policy motion condemning the UN-sponsored 'sham

36th Pacific Islands Forum, Papua New Guinea, 25-27 October 2005

Forty years ago this weekend, Indonesia was plunged into the darkest period in its history when Major-General Suharto unleashed a wave of mass killings regarded among the worst of the 2

Representatives of 48 human rights, faith-based, arms control and peace groups wrote members of the US Congress this week to urge continued restriction of military assistance to Indones

Six years ago today, Australian armed forces lead a multinational peacekeeping force (INTERFET) to East Timor to restore order and provide security for the transition to independence, b

Australia West Papua Association (Melbourne) welcomes the National Party's Resolution No.

This week's decision by Indonesia's Supreme Court not to reverse the acquittal of a police officer charged with gross human rights abuses in East Timor is the latest confirmation that i

The UK government's decision to invite Indonesia to an arms fair in London, despite ongoing concern about the country's human rights record, has been condemned by TAPOL, the Indonesia H

Today's acquittal of two senior Indonesian police officers, accused of allowing the killing of three Papuan students and the torture of over a hundred others, is a worrying illustration

New York – One year after a leading Indonesian human rights activist was murdered after boarding a flight from Jakarta to Europe, the Indonesian government has failed to properly invest

Speaking after the sixth anniversary of East Timor's referendum on independence, Timor Sea Justice Campaign co-ordinator Tom Clarke, labelled the Australian Government's current obsessi

His Excellency Kofi Annan
Secretary-General
The United Nations
1 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017-3515

August 22, 2005

Amnesty International is deeply concerned that the Security Council continues to delay consideration of a detailed United Nations (UN) report on the prosecution of serious violations of

Members of the US House of Representatives recently called on President Bush "to reconsider strengthening ties with the Indonesian military (TNI)."

Hon Alexander Downer MP
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

11 August 2005

Dear Mr. Downer,

Sweden – After a mere five meetings, The Free Acheh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian government is scheduled to sign a historic agreement on August 15 in Helsinki, the capital city of

The trial of Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto for the murder last September of Indonesia's foremost human rights activist Munir, which commenced in Jakarta today, is clearly designed to de

The Secretary of State
The Honorable Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Dear Madam Secretary:

August 15th, 2005 may possibly – hopefully – be recorded as a day of peace in Indonesian history books.

The Right Hon Jack Straw MP
Foreign Secretary
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street
London SW1

Dear Mr Straw,

Comrades,

New York – A draft law on Indonesia's national intelligence body denies basic rights to detainees and violates Indonesian criminal law and international human rights law, Human Rights W

The Timor Sea Justice Campaign (TSJC) is holding a series of public meetings next week ahead of the anticipated signing of a resource sharing agreement between the Governments of Austra

London and Washington, D.C.

The Timor Sea Justice Campaign Melbourne, has taken the opportunity to respond to East Timor's Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos-Horta's media release (dated 14 July, 2005) by reiterating

Australian Prime Minister John Howard was met by more than just praise and accolades during his recent visit to Washington, DC. While media tycoon Rupert Murdoch toasted.

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today praised the Senate for agreeing today to maintain most restrictions on US military assistance to Indonesia.

We welcomed negotiations between Indonesia and Acheh, but warn that without real external support, preferably from the UN, any deals done are doomed to failure.

Members of both chambers of the US Congress have written to the leaders of Indonesia and Timor-Leste urging them to support international involvement in bringing to justice the perpetra

Amnesty International Secretary General, Irene Khan, wrote today to the members of the Security Council urging them to act upon the recommendations of a recent UN report on justice for

Australian businessman, Ian Melrose, has put to air a new television ad which aims to expose the Howard Government's tactics regarding a deal to be signed with East Timor over oil and g

The recent appeals court acquittal of twelve soldiers convicted last year of the 1984 massacre of demonstrators in Jakarta shows the almost complete failure of Indonesia's human rights

His Excellency Kofi Annan Secretary-General The United Nations 1 United Nations Plaza New York, New York 10017-3515

"International justice is now a crucial last resort to bring justice to the victims particularly as both the Timorese and Indonesian Governments have agreed on a Truth and Friendship Co

1. Who says what:

It should be clear that most info coming out at present is from Australian government leaks.