Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAU-011-2016

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information,…

Jakarta – The government should annul discriminative and intolerant bylaws, not only those seen to be hampering economic growth, rights watchdog…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Indonesia's biggest Islamic organization, is of the opinion that making Indonesia a peaceful…

Despite having a smoking prevalence already among the highest in the world, Indonesia has slackened its efforts to control the tobacco industry in…

Pandaya – "Just tobacco. Nothing else matters", reads a lighthearted message scribbled on a terrace wall welcoming guests to a hilltop house in…

Jakarta – Indonesia, which has the world's highest prevalence of smoking, is facing an uphill attle to keep its burgeoning young population away…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Despite wreaking environmental havoc and causing more than US$16 billion in economic losses, hundreds of companies…

Tim McDonald, East Timor – On the road that goes from East Timor's capital of Dili to Suai, on the Island's south, there's a cross by the roadside…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – From providing paramilitary training for civilians to setting up regional defense offices and a defense…

Gatra Priyandita, Indonesia – Military figures have publicly warned of discreet attempts by communists to launch a revolution and reminded…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Ministries and government agencies have been relying too much on state funds allocated to them instead of finding…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu has denied providing armed military training to gang members and mass…

Jakarta – Civil society groups have slammed the police's handling of an anti-mining rally in Merigi Kelindang, Central Bengkulu, at the weekend…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The Mathla'ul Anwar Islamic organization has called on the government not to revoke sharia inspired bylaws that are in…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The government will not back down from its plan to castrate child rapists despite the country's doctors'…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The government has called on regional police chiefs to prevent raids during Ramadhan to ensure a peaceful atmosphere…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The nation waits to see how President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will handle the inevitable political furor over who…

Journalists have been intimidated and threatened while covering an election in the Mamberamo Raya regency of Indonesia's Papua province.

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Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Indonesian Military commander Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo has said the presence of a planned new intelligence agency to…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – In another show of intolerance toward minority faiths in Indonesia, mass organizations have extorted churches in Bandung,…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The fight to prove the innocence of cleaners and teachers accused of sodomy at a prestigious…

Jakarta – A Muslim intellectual has voiced his concern over the Serang Public Order Agency's (Satpol PP) recent raid on an elderly woman's food…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has expressed the government's…

Tim McDonald, Suai, East Timor – Near Suai on East Timor's south coast, a rusty old oil pump sits near a beach, some mangroves and the ruins of an…

Local media (suarapapua.com) has reported the arrests of up to 31 KNPB activists in Jayapura on Friday the 10 June. Those arrested were simply…

The free expression of identity is one of the new-found freedoms to have emerged since the fall of the New Order regime. Among other results this…

Jakarta – Palm oil plantation workers in North Sumatra work under alarming rates of exploitation, a report by environmental NGO Rainforest Action…

Arif Gunawan Sulistiyono, Jakarta – Indonesia's social media networks have once again shown their might, as an impromptu donation campaign raised…

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – An area of forest the size of eight soccer fields is lost every hour in Jambi, Sumatra, leaving forests in the province in a…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Last week, Environment and Forestry Ministry spokesman Novrizal Tahar headed to a minimarket near his house in…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A leading human rights activist has cited the 2012 Law on Yogyakarta's special status as the source of agrarian…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The government has only managed to collect 26.8 percent of its total tax revenue target set in the 2016 budget in the…

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has dismissed the Indonesian Doctors Association's refusal to carry out chemical castration, a…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Defense Ministry's plan to establish its own intelligence agency reflects its lack of willingness to…

Timor-Leste (East Timor) within the next three years will have a modern port in Tibar bay, 12 kilometres from the capital, Dili, according to a…

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the detainees and prisoners in Indonesia face serious problems, in particular those…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) says there is an urgent need to pass a sexual violence bill into…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Human rights group Imparsial urged lawmakers to remove the role of the Indonesian Military (TNI) from an…

Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – The government is stepping up its efforts to spare the lives of 208 Indonesians abroad who are facing the death penalty…

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – The regulation obliging female Muslim students in state schools to wear the headscarf has aroused tensions over religious…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – On March 19, 2014, 18-year-old Indonesian maid Dewi Sukowati had the temerity to serve her employer…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The government has raised Rp 496.6 trillion (US$37.35 billion) in state revenues as of May 31 with Rp 685.8 trillion in…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – A small outdoor kitchen was installed in front of the cell of terrorist convict Abu Bakar Ba…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Jakarta and Canberra have agreed to enhance counterterrorism cooperation following a meeting in Sydney,…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The mapping out of the political powers involved in the aborted coup of 1965 remains unclear to this day, with…

Hannah Gould – One of the world's largest producers of palm oil has drained and planted on areas of peatland supposed to be protected by…

Fadli, Batam – In the apparent absence of transparency and close media scrutiny, the government has continued with its plan to set up Defense…

By Max Lane

Executive summary

Jakarta – The Internet should be an equal world for all of its users, without any discrimination in terms of accessing content or expressing ideas…

Ina Parlina and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – As with high profile figures found guilty of corruption, public officials involved in sexual…