Marlene Millott – Fifty years ago, on 30 September, one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century took place on Australia's doorstep.

An…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Australian journalist Frank Palmos was one of the first foreigners in the world to witness the scale of the communist…

Jakarta – The police in Ternate have ignored public outcry and demands for the release of Adlun Fiqri, a student arrested for uploading a video of…

Jakarta – Police in Ternate, North Maluku, triggered a firestorm of outrage on social media after arresting and charging a university student for…

Havana – The Prime Minister of East Timor, Rui Maria De Araujo, is paying an official visit to Cuba on Friday, during which he will hold talks…

Denpasar – Police have named a hotel employee, Ni Nyoman Mulyani, a suspect on charges of blasphemy for her alleged involvement in organizing a…

Djemi Amnifu, Kupang – East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) authorities have officially banned Islamic group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) from conducting any…

The arrest of two women in Aceh for everyday behavior is an outrageous abuse of police power that should be considered a threat to all Indonesians…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – In the long-running dispute about land rights in Yogyakarta, Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Ferry Mursyidan…

Jakarta – In its latest nonsensical move to squeeze out every last ounce of fun for Jakarta residents, the Jakarta City Council is set to issue a…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura, Papua – Indonesian Air Force personnel in the early hours of Friday accidentally shot two police officers at Jayapura's…

Tama Salim, Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives praised the Constitutional Court (MK) for its ruling allowing regions with only a…

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today urged the US Senate to act quickly and pass Sen. Tom Udall's (D-NM) resolution calling on…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) has said that it is forbidden to apologize to the victims of the 1965 communist purge.…

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is certain that past incidents such as the rebellion by the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) will not be…

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo confirmed that Indonesia will not issue an apology for its role in what has been described as one of the worst…

Jakarta – The Central Jakarta Police have confirmed that the family of an allegedly raped child had to pay for a forensic examination themselves…

Matthew Pennington – Thirteen years after winning independence from Indonesia, East Timor has to wage another struggle for justice with a more…

Jakarta – Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Suryamin said staple food contributed a lot to the deflation in September, which stood at 0.05 percent…

Adriaan Bedner – On 23 May this year Pemuda Pancasila (PP) members came to the house of the poet Kelana, to ask him for 'clarification' about '…

Jess Melvin – On a hot afternoon in 2010, I returned home from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency's archives in Banda Aceh with a heavy…

Banda Aceh – The Wilayatul Hisbah (Sharia Police) have apprehended two young women for allegedly being a lesbian couple after the two were seen…

Nursyahbani Katjasungkana and Saskia E. Wieringa – To achieve true reconciliation we need to have an in depth enquiry by the legal apparatus, if…

Fynn-Niklas Franke, Yogyakarta – Prior to the Independence Day celebrations last month, the international European Association for Southeast Asian…

Fadli, Batam, Riau Islands – The second trial of two UK citizens has begun in Batam District Court on Thursday.

Neil Bonner, 31, and Becky…

Ward Berenschot – On 9 December voters in Central Kalimantan were supposed to elect a new governor. In early November I travelled to the province…

Galuh Wandita and Tegan Molony – Christina from Yogyakarta was arrested by military police in 1965 and again in 1968 and held for ten years…

Taking centre stage at the United Nations General Assembly, the Tongan Prime Minister has urged the world to take action on the human rights…

Jayapura, Jubi – The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) condemns the shooting of two high school students in Timika on Monday the 28…

Jakarta – The draft of an anticriminalization regulation, which includes a ban on law enforcement institutions disclosing information on graft…

Greg Poulgrain, Brisbane – Two months ago President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo tried to stop the discrimination still suffered by descendants of family…

Jakarta – Fifty years after the bloodbaths of the mid-1960s, authorities in Indonesia continue to ignore the suffering of millions of victims and…

Hamish McDonald – It was a night depicted in the film "The Year of Living Dangerously"; a time when a reckless president ruled a country in…

Laksmi Pamuntjak – As 250 million Indonesians face up to the 50th anniversary of one of the most crushing episodes of our nation's history – the…

Marlene Millott – Fifty years ago, on September 30, one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century took place on Australia's doorstep.

An…

Pat Walsh – Like Tony Abbott before him, Malcolm Turnbull is slated to make Jakarta one of his first overseas ports of call as prime minister. His…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Tama Salim and Indra Harsaputra, Jakarta/Surabaya – The East Java Police have named 22 suspects alleged to be responsible…

The government will not apologize to the victims of the 1965 communist purge and instead will focus on reconciliation, said Coordinating Political…

Jakarta – As the 50th anniversary of the 1965 anti-Communist massacre in Indonesia draws near, several human rights advocates are again pressing…

Tama Salim, Jakarta – With the selection of candidates to lead the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) put on hold until the House of…

Jakarta – World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Indonesia, an international NGO concerned with conservation, research and environmental conservation,…

Oliver Holmes, Bangkok – Two British journalists are facing five years in jail in Indonesia for making a documentary about piracy while allegedly…

Jakarta – The parents of DA, a 3-year-old rape victim, said on Friday that they had been asked to pay Rp 1.2 million (US$81.7) by a policewoman…

Hari Tri Wasono, Blitar – Thousands of members of the Islamic mass organisation Nahdlatul Ulama's (NU) paramilitary youth wing Barisan Ansor…

Indonesian authorities are abandoning millions of victims and their family members who suffered through one of the worst mass killings in modern…

Semarang, Jubi – A Papuan human rights activist, Yones Douw, urged the central government to withdraw troops from Papua.

He said he was very…

Crowds have reportedly gathered in the Papuan town of Timika to protest the police shooting of two high school students.

An Australia-based…

AWPA condemns the shooting of two high school students in Timika on Monday the 28 September by the Indonesian security forces. The incident…

Jakarta – Antitobacco campaigners have lambasted new provisions in a culture bill recognizing kretek (clove cigarettes) as a part of national…

Jakarta – Built during the tenure of Indonesia's second president Soeharto, the Pancasila Sakti (Sacred Pancasila) monument complex in Lubang…