Margaret Wise, NADi, Fiji (The Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch) – Giving voice to the voiceless and championing the rights of all people is…

From April 18th up until the 22nd 2016, the Indonesian President Joko Widodo will pay a visit to the EU and the Member States among others, The…

Tassia Sipahutar – Recent data suggesting an improvement to equality in the country has not impressed economists who believe that it merely…

Papang Hidayat – She was the only woman on the stage. On either side stood uniformed men, their stern gaze bearing down on her. The 60-year-old…

Erika Anindita Dewi – The Terrorism Law revision must include human rights protection to prevent incidents such as the recent death of terrorism…

Rizal Harahap and Severianus Endi – The general public were warned about the possibility of massive forest and land fires on Monday, after fires…

Anton Hermansyah – President Joko Widodo's visit to Europe shows the government's concern over declining European Union (EU) trade with Indonesia…

Len Garae – Thousands of members of civil society organisations and the public in Port Vila and rural communities around Efate, are expected to…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Agnes Anya – The central government and the Jakarta administration have agreed to suspend the multimillion-dollar…

Prime Minister David Cameron must challenge Indonesian President Joko Widodo over the country's woeful human rights record during his visit to the…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest Islamic outfit in Indonesia, has called on the government to uncover the truth behind…

Joe Cochraneapril, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia's security minister said on Monday at a symposium devoted to the mass atrocities committed half…

Jakarta – Indonesian activists boycotted a state-backed forum on the anti-communist purge of 1965 on Tuesday, a day after a senior minister said…

Anton Hermansyah – In a historic move, the Indonesian government has for the first time organized an official event to talk about the massacre of…

Niniek Karmini & Stephen Wright, Jakarta – Indonesia on Monday convened an unprecedented discussion of anti-communist massacres in 1965-66…

Anton Hermansyah – Survivors of the 1965 tragedy have called for reconciliation through the revelation of the truth behind the mass killing of…

Callistasia Anggun Wijay – A fisherman's group has demanded that the Jakarta administration repair the environmental damage done to Jakarta Bay by…

Michael Kodas, Kenyala, Indonesia – The orange-furred toddler survived one of the most destructive wildfires on record, but with a plastic tube…

Venidora Oliveira – National Police (PNTL) Commander Julio Hornai said the data was taken in 13 municipalities and showed that 417 people were…

Venidora Oliveira – Seventy-two percent of rural areas communities across 13 municipalities in Timor-Leste now have access to clean water,…

Whilst abroad for a study exchange year in Melbourne, Connor Woodman discovered that Indonesia's effort to thwart the independence movement of its…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-035-2016

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

Margareth S. Aritonang and Stefani Ribka – Despite reluctance to address the 1965 tragedy that is thought to have claimed thousands of lives, the…

Despite the rising number of internet users, a digital gulf is dividing the archipelago with wildly unequal access, speed and proficiency between…

The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) administration has announced that a civil servant from Lembata regency has been dismissed for joining the Fajar…

Ayomi Amindoni – The vast, mineral-rich province of Papua has the worst income equality in the country, with a Gini ratio of 0.43 percent,…

Lauren Farrow and Heru Rahadi – For years Svetlana Nyoto lived with the fear that someone would find out who she was.

"After my father went…

Ayomi Amindoni – Indonesia's Gini coefficient ratio improved by 0.01 to 0.4 in September 2015. The Gini ratio is an indicator measuring income-…

An alliance of civil society groups calling themselves People's Decree have called on the Jakarta administration to halt all planned evictions,…

Safrin La Batu – Huge banners were held and the rallying cry "stop reclamation" was chanted as hundreds of fishermen packed Muara Angke Port in…

Anton Hermansyah – Current economic policies have yet to show adequate support for the development of the manufacturing industry, which may lead…

The government has stressed that there are no plans for an official apology for the 1965 anti-communist purge, an official said Monday.

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Jakarta – Tensions flared during a discussion on Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purges on Monday (18/04), with the major point of contention…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Indonesia's chief security minister said the country must make peace with its past but ruled out a…

Elly Burhaini Faizal – A high school history teacher in Batam, Riau Islands, has brought alternative narratives of the 1965 to 1966 communist…

Ayomi Amindoni – The National Economic and Industry Committee (KEIN) has said industrialization should be the locomotive pulling Indonesia's…

Elly Burhaini Faizal – Human Rights Watch (HRW) deputy Asia director Phelim Kine has said the critical issue of human rights should not get lost…

Endy M. Bayuni – There is no doubt that the public space for free expression in Indonesia is gradually shrinking and, tragically, successive…

Human rights activists have warned the government not to use next week's national symposium on the 1965-1966 mass killings as a way to force a one…

Yenni Kwok – A half-century after at least half a million people were killed in a brutal pogrom against suspected communists and communist…

John Martinkus – In 1995, as I squatted for days in a hole in the jungle of East Timor with 12 men hiding from Indonesian troops patrolling nearby…

Anton Hermansyah – Despite a slight month-on-month (MoM) increase in March, the daily income of low-wage laborers in the country's informal…

Trade unions have called on the government to issue a regulation that protects the rights of homeworkers, including a decent wage and safety as…

Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge, Jakarta – A recent three-day visit by Coordinating Security, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut…

Erika Anindita Dewi – The Islamic United Development Party (PPP) will submit a bill on the anti-propaganda of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and…

Anton Hermansyah – Indonesia registered a trade surplus of US$1.65 billion in the first quarter of this year, amid a 14-percent cumulative year-on…

Arnold Belau, Jayapura – The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Jakarta) reports that 63 people have been arrested over the last nine days in West…

Hannah Sinclair – East Timor has filed a request with the United Nations to resolve a dispute over its maritime border with Australia. It's a move…

On Monday, East Timor asked the United Nations to begin the process of establishing a permanent maritime boundary with Australia in the Timor Sea…

Yesterday's demonstrations in West Papua have been described as a sign of widespread support for integration with the wider Melanesian community…