Severianus Endi, Pontianak – Forty-seven people, including children, stayed the night in the National Commission on Human Rights office in…

Prima Wirayani, Farida Susanty and Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – While announcing a second round of cuts to this year's state budget, Sri Mulyani…

Samantha Hawley – A rice noodle snack with a drawing of a bikini-clad torso on the packaging and the slogan "squeeze me" is proving too revealing…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Trade Minister Steven Ciobo must have exhaled at a press conference on Tuesday morning when he heard his Indonesian…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Activists of various NGOs have urged ASEAN governments to eliminate investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) from the…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy grew at a stronger-than-expected rate of 5.18 percent year-on-year (yoy) in the second quarter,…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Indonesians remain the third-most confident consumers in the world, behind those in India and the Philippines, a…

Helen Jarvis, a member of the seven-judge panel of the International People's Tribunal on 1965 Crimes Against Humanity in Indonesia (IPT),…

Ina Parlina and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Support is growing for a rights activist, Haris Azhar, coordinator of the Commission for Missing…

Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, Jakarta – On July 20, a video of presiding judge Zak Yacoob reading out the major conclusions of the International…

Jakarta – Revealing explosive allegations of state officials involved in drug trafficking is not a criminal offense, observers have said after…

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi' Widodo is facing pressure to come out against the "criminalizing" of a Jakarta-based human rights activist,…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Rights activist Haris Azhar has requested the government's protection and commitment should the names of law…

Aatai John – Member of Parliament (MP) for West Makira Constituency acknowledges the consistent support shown by the solidarity group in the…

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely dismayed by President Joko Widodo's decision to continue the execution of death row inmates.…

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Three women emerged out of their tents, and despite the scorching sun that day they ran toward a truck full of cardboard…

Apriadi Gunawan – Hundreds of residents of Sari Rejo subdistrict in Medan, North Sumatra, blocked an access road to the Soewondo Airbase in Medan…

Saskia E. Wieringa, Amsterdam – To this day victims and survivors of the mass killings and other crimes against humanity committed by the military…

The Tongan Prime Minister is calling on Pacific leaders to unite on a call for United Nations intervention in the Indonesian provinces of Papua…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A legal attempt by a group of conservative academics to criminalize any sexual relations outside marriage has…

Djemi Amnifu, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – The Federal Court of Australia in Sydney on Wednesday accepted a class action lawsuit filed by…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – As one of the country's most outspoken human rights defenders, Haris Azhar, has long been a gadfly to the nation…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Think before you tweet or post anything on social media.

Netizens or social media enthusiasts need to be…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has said its move to report rights activist Haris Azhar to the National Police's…

Australia's top national security ministers will hold talks next week with a former military general accused of human rights abuses in East Timor…

Fedina S. Sundaryani and Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Further budget cuts are a bitter pill the government will have to swallow as it seeks to…

Until recently we rarely had kissing scenes on screen, and when we did blurred images have been used as a desperate attempt to protect public…

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – As Jakarta's gubernatorial election approaches, numerous communities in the capital are starting to openly express their…

Nicholas Koumjian, Phnom Penh – The Jakarta Post reported last Friday that Gen. (ret.) Wiranto, the newly appointed coordinating political, legal…

Dover, N.H., United States – A man has admitted to his role in a conspiracy to illegally purchase guns in New Hampshire and Maine and smuggle them…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto has stressed that the government would not…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The National Police, the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) and the Indonesian Military (TNI) have reported rights…

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's ambitious plan to develop various large-scale infrastructure projects across the…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With negative public sentiment toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) reaching an all-time high, the…

Why Jakarta must let the Melanesian Spearhead Group decide who is in and who is out, and what matters for Melanesian people.

Elvira Rumkabu…

Indonesia and the Melanesian Spearhead Group need the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

Jenny Munro – In recent times the…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The death row inmates whose lives were spared on the night of their planned executions last week…

Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI) declared its support on Tuesday for Rizal Ramli – former coordinating maritime…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The people of the Kendeng Mountains in the northern part of Central Java can now breathe a temporary sigh of relief…

Quratul-Ain Bandial, Bandar Seri Begawan – Timor Leste is keen to reap the potential benefits of tariff-free trade once it joins the ASEAN bloc,…

Paulina Quintao – The Caucus organization is providing training to 30 potential female political candidates, which have been registered in the…

Severianus Endi, Pontianak – Hundreds of residents from several hamlets in West Kalimantan have fled their homes to avoid arrest over their…

Paulina Quintao – Increased reporting of domestic violence cases and the establishment of more shelters are the two major achievements during the…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Women and children remain the most vulnerable to human trafficking and forced labor with the National Police's…

Jayapura – Military and police personnel totaling 800 have been deployed to Timika, Papua, to secure the region after a tribal conflict in Kwamki…

Benny Mawel, Jayapura – Indonesian Catholic students have called on the government to listen to the grievances of the people of Papua and resolve…

Feriawan Hidayat & Ratri M. Siniwi, Jakarta – Papua's Center for Conservation of Natural Resources, a division of the Ministry of Environment…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – More than 13,000 Indonesian seaweed farmers will on Wednesday launch a class action in the Federal Court in Sydney…

Jakarta – The Ministry of Education and Culture's Head of Language Development Agency, Dadang Sunendar, has said that 139 ethnic languages in…

Jakarta – Following the execution of four drug convicts on early Friday, Muslim scholars and the leaders of the country's major Muslim…