Jayapura – Papua is taking steps to combat violence against women and children as concerns grow about the level of domestic abuse. According the…

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has rejected a judicial review submitted by six students from Padang-based Andalas University to…

Kennial Caroline Laia – As the nation moves closer to the upcoming 2014 general elections, an often overlooked and underestimated group of voters…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) stepped up its probe into allegations that the Democratic Party's (PD…

All political parties except the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) were secretive about their financial reports,…

Nineteen untenured employees of Riau's Rokan Hulu district government were fired in November because they did not show up to 5 a.m. prayers, a…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Sutarman made a visit to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters on…

More than 40 percent of Indonesian voters consider politicians seeking to buy support at elections acceptable, a survey showed Friday, months…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The results of a public opinion poll released on Thursday revealed that a significant portion of voters had no problem…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – Using the newly endorsed Spatial Zoning Bylaw as it latest weapon, the Jakarta administration is preparing to relocate…

Marni Cordell – Scores of unarmed civilians were tortured and killed and their bodies dumped at sea in a massacre by Indonesian security forces in…

Satria Sambijantoro, Nusa Dua, Bali – Indonesia is now racing against the clock to boost its manufacturing sector and strengthen its supply-side…

Indonesia's four-year-old plan to ban the export of raw mineral ore in an effort to foster a domestic processing industry comes into effect on Jan…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Activists have demanded an explanation from legislators over alleged verbal harassment toward a female candidate during…

Jakarta – The Women's Legal Aid Foundation (LBH APIK) has demanded the Jakarta Police charge noted poet Sitok Srengenge with a heavier charge than…

Jakarta – Despite strong opposition from residents, the destruction of illegal dwellings in Taman Burung Village, Pluit, North Jakarta, went on as…

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Government ministers from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) have criticized the Jakarta Anti-…

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Indonesia is in a state of emergency regarding human rights violations, according to the National Commission…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – A bus carrying Merauke Military Commander Brig. Gen. Bambang Haryanto and other military officers was…

Lenny Tristia Tambun – The Jakarta administration has backed the Education Ministry's controversial new curriculum that scraps English classes,…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Children born to couples in unregistered marriages, known as nikah siri, will now be able to have the names of their…

The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has reported several lawmakers to the House of Representatives'…

Gwynne Dyer – And now for something completely different: A spy story that isn't about Edward Snowden's disclosures and the US National Security…

The Semarang District Court handed down a two-year prison term on Thursday to an Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) member who killed a woman with his…

Yogyakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has called on the Press Council (Dewan Pers) to closely monitor…

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said certain elements in civil society were designing movements to disrupt security and order ahead…

The imprisonment of seven men in Sorong, Papua on 4 December 2013 highlights the ongoing criminalization of peaceful political activism in the…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The City Council on Wednesday endorsed the Spatial Zoning Bylaw, which, to some extent, limits the Jakarta governor from…

Damien Kingsbury – Australia and Timor-Leste are in a diplomatic lull following the revelations that Australia spied on Timor-Leste's cabinet via…

Peter Lloyd, staff – East Timor's former president Jose Ramos-Horta says Australia would never have secured a seat on the United Nations Security…

Whatever merit the Australian government might discern in spying on the ministers of East Timor in 2004, it is beggarly that its operatives…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – After spending lavishly on opening its presidential convention in September, the Democratic Party's (PD) coffers…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Environment Ministry has issued 17 firms with so-called "black labels" for polluting the environment and…

Two vehicles operating at copper and gold producer PT Freeport Indonesia's (PTFI) mine were targeted in shootings on Sunday and Monday…

Nukila Evanty, Jakarta – Indonesia received 180 recommendations when it was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United…

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – The arrest in October of Akil Mochtar, recently dismissed as the chief justice of the Constitutional Court, for alleged…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Muslim intellectual Dawam Rahardjo won the 2013 Yap Thiam Hien human rights award for what the committee described as his…

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – Research commissioned by the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) since the National Education System Law came in…

Tom Allard – East Timor's government believes it has identified the members of a team of four Australian spies who allegedly bugged its government…

Novianti Setuningsih & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The number of corruption accusations being thrown against politicians and parties will surge…

Ezra Sihite, Ezra Sihite, Novy Lumanauw, Novianti Setuningsih & Arnold Sianturi – Ten years after it was founded, the national antigraft…

East Timor is ready to develop the Greater Sunrise gas fields "tomorrow" but refuses to bend to Woodside's preference for a floating project.

Ezequiel Freitas – President of the Republic, Taur Matan Ruak (TMR), said the Caras Massacre that took place in 1983 was an event of great…

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, Malang, East Java – A museum built in honor of Munir Said Thalib, a prominent human rights activist assassinated in 2004, was…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-153-2013

Dear friends,

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

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) will monitor financial transactions made by…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As the ruling Democratic Party complains about the many graft allegations leveled against it, a classified document…

Novianti Setuningsih – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) broke ground on its new Rp 215 billion ($17.9 million) headquarters on Monday…

Colin Brown – When I started planning this paper, I intended to focus on the period of the second SBY Cabinet (since 2009), and to look in the…

AHRC-STM-227-2013

In commemoration of Human Rights Day on December 10, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is issuing a brief…