Jerry Omona, Jayapura – General Coordinator of the National Army of Free Papuan Organization (OPM) Lambert Pekikir has rejected the…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Law and Human Rights Ministry, which controls prisons across the country, has been slammed again for its perceived…

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – The hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) will not accept the "arrogant non-Muslim" Basuki Tjahaja Purnama as the…

Amnesty International says a Papuan human rights lawyer, defending a tribal leader accused of separatist activities by Indonesian…

Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Court has increased the prison sentence handed to a Papua-based police officer found guilty of laundering up to Rp 1…

Jakarta – Jakarta has been named the worst city in Indonesia by the Center for Urban Design Studies (PSUD), citing poor urban development and the…

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – An increasing number of commuters on Jakarta's public transportation network are wearing masks to protect…

Paulina Quintao – Member of Parliament (MP) Brigida Antonia Correira has criticized the Ministry of Tourism's Miss Turismu initiative as a waste…

The growing inequality is the most visible negative product of economic growth during SBY's tenure.

Over the course of Susilo Bambang…

Martinha Gusmao – Member of Parliament Eladio Faculto has called on the Timor-Leste government to close down the Dili International…

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – The Gerindra Party has officially named Aryo Winoto, the nephew of the late president Soeharto, to run…

Ina Parlina and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Democratic Party's about-face in rejecting the proposal to end the direct elections of local…

Rizky Amelia, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Thursday slammed a sentence reduction of more than two years for graft…

Deti Mega Purnamasari & Erwin Sihombing, Jakarta – Former Jakarta Transportation Office chief Udar Pristono was arrested on Thursday for his…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Due to abuses of power found within regional governments, the central government is planning to…

Rusman, Bekasi – The body of a battered 40-year-old man remained at Bekasi General Hospital in West Java on Monday evening. He died after being…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Indonesia has officially adopted a decade-old regional haze treaty following pressure from neighboring countries…

UA: 232/14 Index: ASA 21/027/2014

Papuan human rights lawyer Anum Siregar was attacked by an unknown person in Wamena, Papua province…

Rieka Rahadiana & Neil Chatterjee – Indonesia's incoming president began his political ascent as a mayor in a system of local elections. The…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A member of the Free Papua Organization was killed in a firefight with security officers at an airfield in…

Raja H. Panggabean, Jakarta – Piyan is an illegal parking attendant outside the ITC Roxy Mas shopping center in West Jakarta. Every day, he tends…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A senior police officer in Papua province has been fired over a personal indiscretion and another for his alleged…

West Papuan campaigners, supporters and students gathered in Auckland for a memorial ceremony for the Vanuatu-based exile John Ondawame who died…

Tito Summa Siahaan, Jakarta – Legislators are making life difficult for the next administration by rewriting the draft state budget and inserting…

Jakarta – A plenary session at the House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Copyright Law, which replaces a previous 2002 law.…

Jakarta – Aides to President-elect Joko Widodo continued on Tuesday to elaborate on the make-up of the incoming cabinet, amid a general sense of…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) executives defended on Tuesday president-…

Jakarta – Joshua Oppenheimer, who made documentary films about the massacres during the communist purge of 1965-66 in Indonesia, has…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A radical group has threatened to use force to close down a seminar on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Despite improvements in the provision of permits, the Indonesian Ombudsman has found that the charging of illegal levies is…

Ina Parlina and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Anti-corruption activists and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) praised on Tuesday a recent…

Haeril Halim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is going after people inside President Susilo Bambang…

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The hope of bringing closure to human rights abuses has been dashed now that the transition…

The Pacific Freedom Forum says Indonesia's President-elect Joko Widodo should keep his campaign promise to open up access to West…

Yuliasri Perdani and Ruslan Sangaji, Jakarta/Palu – In the wake of the arrest of alleged Chinese Turkestan jihadists in Central Sulawesi,…

Over 80 delegates from West Papua and other countries are expected to converge on Port Vila at the start of next month to attend the…

Evan A. Laksmana, New York – The lack of an institutionalized integrated tri-service culture within the Indonesian Military (TNI) means that the…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Support from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for the direct-election of local heads is expected to help the…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – The families of two French journalists imprisoned indefinitely for reporting in West Papua without a visa have spoken…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Despite his pledge to avoid transactional politics, president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo…

An official from Merauke in Indonesia's Papua province says the regency's alarmingly high greenhouse gas emissions rate results from…

Kriti Sharma – "My parents thought I was possessed – they used to put garlic and salt on my body to rid me of evil spirits," Erifah, 49, who lives…

Jakarta – The University of Indonesia (UI) is still the country's best institution of higher education, according to results of a world university…

Jakarta – Greenpeace mourners on Monday placed funeral wreaths on burned peatland in Riau province, highlighting an ongoing crisis and urging…

Evan A. Laksmana, New York – As president-elect Joko Widodo – popularly known as Jokowi – prepares his first Cabinet and plans to govern, it is…

Jakarta (Australian Associated Press/Pacific Media Watch/WikiLeaks) – Award-winning US journalist Allan Nairn has temporarily escaped a five-year…

Wijaya Kusuma, Yogyakarta – Investigators from the municipal police Special Crimes Detective Unit (Dit Reskrimsus) in the Central Java city of…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has submitted a "negative list" of individuals implicated…

ALRC-COS-27-15-2014
Speaker: Mr. Budi Tjahjono
HRC section: Item 3, General Debate

A Joint Oral Statement to the 27th Session of…

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Motorists and residents have complained that the newly completed Jakarta Outer Ring Road (JORR) W2 North toll road…