Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The cult of personality surrounding Megawati Soekarnoputri and making her the most powerful figure in the Indonesian…

Indonesia – A bomb exploded at the offices of local tabloid Modus in Banda Aceh on Saturday morning, but no injuries have been…

Dessy Sagita – The special forces sergeant who drove his Kopassus colleagues to Cebongan prison to execute four inmates was told by a military…

AI Index: ASA 21/032/2013

Joint statement by civil society organizations

Nine years after the killing of human rights…

Hardline Islamists in Indonesia have burnt effigies of Miss World beauty pageant organisers and branded them "infidels" during an angry protest…

Dessy Sagita – It has been nine years since Munir Said Thalib was silenced by arsenic poisoning as he sat on a Garuda Indonesia flight, but…

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan/Jakarta – It is not only plantations but also oil and gas companies that threaten to turn parts of Papua into…

Paulina Quintao – Only 49 of the 288 sexual abuse cases involving children registered with the organization Legal Assistance for Women and…

Paulina Quintao – The United Nations Population Fund recommends the Timor-Leste government should create a new law or strengthen existing laws…

Jakarta – The Health Ministry is supporting the move by local administrations – including Sabang city in Aceh – to make it a requirement for high…

SP/Yeremia Sukoyo – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo may have stolen the spotlight from senior politicians eyeing the presidency in 2014, but his…

Jakarta – An estimated 7,000 workers from the city and surrounding areas staged a mass rally, demanding the government significantly raise the…

Public ownership of infrastructure in the eastern part of Indonesia has moved a step forward with agreement by US-owned gold and copper mining…

SP/Edi Hardum, SP/Hotman Siregar, SP/Mikael Niman & Bayu Marhaenjati – Some 20,000 Greater Jakarta workers rallied on Thursday to demand a 50…

An international environmental group that documented illegal logging activities linked to a rogue police officer in Papua has welcomed the…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Indonesia has been ranked 100th out of 176 countries worldwide in terms of health equality for children, according…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) will have a greater role in domestic security following the signing of an agreement with…

A military tribunal jailed three members of Indonesia's Kopassus special forces for the extrajudicial executions of four prison inmates in the…

The conviction of eight Kopassus special forces members in the brutal jailhouse killings of four men at Cebongan Prison was an important step in…

Marcel Thee – The term "a military general's son," up until a few months ago, had little meaning beyond a literal, perfunctory status.

It…

Jakarta – High logistics costs are a serious impediment to higher economic growth for Indonesia, says a report released on Friday by Bandung's…

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Due to the recent trend of capital outflow, Indonesia was particularly vulnerable to financial stress, economists…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – We who are concerned about the state of religious freedom in the country are likely enduring what the character Gil Pender…

Slamet Susanto and Bambang Muryanto, Archipelago – Hundreds of supporters of members of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) being tried at the II…

Indonesia is being accused of buying the support of Solomon Islands over the prime minister Gordon Darcy Lilo's recent trip to that…

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has called for engagement with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as the way forward…

Fadli, Batam – Indonesia will continue to modernize its main weapon systems to become, by 2014, Southeast Asia's strongest military power in…

Jakarta – The Makassar Legal Aid Institute (LBH) has lambasted the acquittal of Nur Ansari, the suspect in the firebombing of five…

SP/Yeremia Sukoyo – According to survey results released on Thursday, 42.1 percent of Indonesians said that the legislature had played…

Jakarta – The implementation of infrastructure projects planned by the government still need to be worked on, following the Global Competitiveness…

AI Index: PRE01/446/2013

The conviction of eight Kopassus (Special Forces Command) soldiers today is a step towards ending impunity…

SP/Yeremia Sukoyo – According to survey results released on Thursday, 42.1 percent of Indonesians said that the legislature had played…

Jakarta – Indonesia plans to relax a rule forcing foreign miners to sell majority stakes and allow those who make downstream investments to keep…

US group General Electric plans to invest in East Timor (Timor-Leste), the country's minister for Public Works, Gastao de Sousa said…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) handed a key audit report on the graft-tainted Hambalang project to the Corruption…

Arientha Primanita – The government has no plans to disband the Ahmadiyah congregation in Bekasi, despite a request from the municipality.

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Michael Bachelard – The three soldiers from Indonesia's special forces unit Kopassus who led a murderous attack on a group of prisoners in…

Michael Bachelard – As 12 of the Indonesian army's Kopassus special forces troops await sentencing for breaking into a prison and gunning down…

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's reputation is on the line as a military tribunal into the alleged extrajudicial jailhouse killings…

Anushka Shahjahan – The right to peacefully advocate referendums is a part of freedom of expression and Indonesian authorities must drop charges…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Despite the impressive performance from the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), the House of…

Fadli, Batam – Workers' rallies, ahead of the 2014 City Minimum Wage (UMK) discussion in Batam, Riau Islands, have raised concern among various…

SP/Robertus Wardi & SP/Carlos Paath – Under Suharto's presidency, universally denounced as undemocratic, there was no such thing as direct…

Jakarta – Around 20,000 workers from the Confederation of Indonesia Workers' Union (KSPI) staged a mass rally on Thursday from the…

Made Arya Kencana & Farouk Arnaz, Denpasar/Jakarta – The government is still weighing its decision on holding the Miss World Beauty Pageant…

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has submitted to the House of Representatives the names…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – As the trials of 12 soldiers accused of slaying four inmates in a Yogyakarta prison draw to a close, human rights defenders…

Anggi Kusumadewi, Erick Tanjung – Indonesia's newly appointed military (TNI) chief, General Moeldoko, will deploy TNI forces to maintain state…

Jakarta – A senior United Development Party (PPP) politician defended the decision from party chairman Suryadharma Ali to walk off…

Carlos Paath – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali has come under fire for reportedly getting riled by the call to prayer, or adzan, that…