The chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, Manasseh Sogavare, says the regional body is pushing for an urgent intervention by the United…

Jakarta – Traditional market sellers and buyers may find the latest statistics intriguing, with prices of many food commodities on the rise…

Benny Wenda – Earlier this year, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held its extraordinary summit in Jakarta with the theme "…

Jakarta – A panel holding an ethics hearing on the case of two Densus 88 counterterrorism squad members involved in the arrest of terror suspect…

Jakarta – The number of drug convicts keeps rising despite the implementation of the death penalty, showing that capital punishment is not that…

Jakarta – People are afraid of communism because they do not understand it and just accept the single narrative of history provided by the…

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – For train commuters in Greater Jakarta, dozens of makeshift huts and tiny houses huddled along the railway are a common…

Jakarta – The Environment and Forestry Ministry has told the Jakarta city administration to prevent developing companies from continuing their…

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Commuters will have to revise their strategies to get to and from Jakarta during the week as the city administration is set…

A church leader from Indonesia's Papua region who is in New Zealand raising awareness about conditions in his homeland says West Papua is a global…

Padre James Bhagwan – Last week I ended my column drawing a correlation between the writing of JW Burton, Totaram Sandhya and CF Andrews on the…

Venidora Oliveira – Members of the national police force (PNTL) are receiving training to help them better protect and recognize the presence of…

Venidora Oliveira – Timor-Leste's National Parliament has approved a law limiting the power of the President to grant clemency to those convicted…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Two fingers on Lim Jit Wee's right hand are ugly stumps; a legacy, he says, of the torture that led to him falsely…

Jakarta – Amnesty International on Wednesday (11/05) slammed Indonesia's plans to execute death-row inmates, following recent reports of inmates…

Paulina Quintao– Ongoing drought conditions are to blame for food shortages and crop failures this year, particularly maize, according to the…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The government should exclude mining permit (IUP) holders as potential beneficiaries of a planned tax amnesty, NGOs…

Paulina Quintao – The increase in domestic violence cases has been linked to rising levels of polygamy and infidelity in the country.

The…

Paulina Quintao – There are concerns that the country's farmers are losing their passion for agricultural work and that production is now in…

Jakarta – Corruption and judicial watchdogs joined forces on Tuesday (10/05) to admonish the Supreme Court for judicial corruption which has…

Jakarta – The upcoming election of new members to the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) should be used to elect more credible commissioners…

Jakarta – Jakarta citizens care more about track records and programs offered by candidates in the upcoming gubernatorial election than sectarian…

Jakarta – More than 50 years after the 1965 anti-communist purge, Indonesia has seen a reemergence of communist symbolism and debate through…

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua has opened its new office in Wamena, Indonesia.

The chairman of the Papuan Baptist Church…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The Movie Censorship Agency (LSF) has admitted to being confused about censoring content on US-based streaming movie…

Erika Anindita Dewi, Jakarta – The Golkar Party's ethics committee will organize a hearing on Thursday to investigate the alleged bribery of…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Factions of the House of Representatives agreed on Monday not to grant license revocation authority to the…

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Indonesia's authorities to stop violating the rights of journalists in West Papua, where the…

Ligia J. Giay – A recent article by Sade Bimantara on how Papua is "already free and its rights protected" reeks of what it means to be privileged…

Dieqy Hasbi Widhana – Following the 1965 International People's Tribunal (IPT65) in The Hague and the National Symposium on the 1966 Tragedy in…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed law enforcers to enforce the laws against the use of communist imagery,…

Jakarta – An internal dispute at the Muslim-based Prosperous Justice Party has intensified with ousted lawmaker Fahri Hamzah calling for party…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta/Medan – The bitter experience of being in the opposition camp over the past two years has…

Jakarta – The government plans to form a joint team to examine mass graves allegedly used to bury victims of the 1965 communist purge as part of…

The International Parliamentarians for West Papua has called for an internationally-supervised vote on independence in West Papua and is preparing…

Jambi – A considerable number of residents suffer from mental disorders in Merangin regency, Jambi, with local health agency data listing 205…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government should move away from its dependency on dirty coal to cleaner renewable energy if it is to meet its…

Cristian Talesco – Five years since submitting its formal membership application to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the small…

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Indonesia's authorities to stop violating the rights of journalists in West Papua, where the Jayapura…

It's one of the more disgraceful, and criminally underreported, examples of the current government's war on whistleblowers (and one entirely…

A member of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua has dismissed claims by Indonesia that its deliberations on Papuan self-…

More mass demonstrations are expected in Indonesia's Papua region amid growing international interest in West Papuan self-determination…

Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) labour activist Iswan Abdullah A Siata is paying close attention to the communist movement that…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Standard & Poor's (S&P), the only global rating agency that has yet to release an update on Indonesia's…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-043-2016

Dear Friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received…

Mei Amelia, Jakarta – The Kebayoran Baru sectoral police have questioned a clothing trader in the Block M shopping district of South Jakarta for…

Jakarta – Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace chairperson Hendardi believes that the recent spate of propaganda about the rise of the…

Nurul Hidayat, Mojokerto - Five members of a local band called Mesin Sampink in East Java have been arrested by the Mojokerto municipal police for…

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Thirteen drug offenders on death row in Indonesia are listed to face the firing squad in a further…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – Former president of Timor Leste Jose Ramos-Horta has expressed optimism that the Indonesian government will settle cases…