Rendi Witular, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry will soon issue a regulation that will eliminate value-added tax (VAT) and income tax…

Novrida Manurung – Indonesia's inflation accelerated to the highest level in more than four years in July, adding to risks facing Southeast Asia's…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives Commission I overseeing defense will question Army chief of staff Gen.…

The Hague, West Papua – The Free West Papua Campaign is to open a new office in the Netherlands.

Earlier this year the Campaign…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has selected former law and justice minister Patrialis Akbar as a Constitutional Court…

Banjir Ambarita – An armed civilian group shot at an ambulance carrying a patient in the restive Papua district of Puncak Jaya on Wednesday,…

Alex Rayfield, Yapen – In dramatic scenes outside a remote West Papuan prison, local community leaders on Monday forced the Indonesian police to…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – In spite of their stance on pluralism, major political parties in the House of Representatives have condoned, if…

Index: ASA 21/026/2013

Amnesty International urges the Indonesian government to take concrete and immediate steps to implement…

A group of 14 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has signed an online petition urging a drug manufacturer to offer Hepatitis C…

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesia will likely see its trade deficit breach a record high of US$5 billion this year, more than double the figure…

Jose Sarito Amaral, Dili – The East Timor National Parliament urges its government to immediately complete the investigation over the procurement…

Slamet Susanto and Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Yogyakarta District Court on Monday sent four defendants involved in an attack against an…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Political pragmatism by major political parties, that have long pandered to majority Sunni voters, has prevented…

Novianti Setuningsih – The recent arrest of a lawyer for allegedly bribing a Supreme Court official has sparked a debate between those who say the…

Karon Snowdon – East Timor's foreign minister says a boatload of asylum seekers en route to Australia was not forcibly pushed away from his…

The State Palace on Monday lashed out at foreign governments that allegedly spied on Indonesian leaders, saying the practice was unethical.

Jayapura – Five Papuan Freedom activists were arrested while taking part in a demonstration on 29 July, in support of the discussion on Self-…

Jayapura – The Second Secretary for Political Affairs at the US Embassy in Jakarta, James P. Feldmeyer, declared that he will pay close attention…

Jakarta – Gen. (ret) Djoko Santoso claims he has told Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Adm. Agus Suhartono that he wants to run for…

Timorese National Police (PNTL) Deputy Commander, Afonso de Jesus, has acknowledged that the police force has failed in its conflict prevention…

Jakarta – "I don't want my friends to turn away from me when I tell them who I am," said 13-year-old Ardan, not his real name, on Saturday during…

Amir Tedjo, Surabaya – The death of a drug suspect during an allegedly brutal interrogation by Sawahan Police on April 1 has cast a light on what…

Ezequiel Freitas, TDW – Survivors from 1975 continue to complain about injustice, so they've called on the government to accelerate the process of…

Program Coordinator of the Timor-Leste Coalition for Education (TLCE) Matias dos Santos said many Timorese students are studying illegally in…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Almost all political parties, except for the United Development Party (PPP), which is chaired by Religious…

Carlos Paath – Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie said he is considering asking the Democratic Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle…

Oxford, UK – Benny Wenda has been many things in his 38 years. Among them, student and activist, prisoner and wanted man, a child of indigenous…

Arientha Primanita – Sampang's persecuted Shiite Muslim minority, fearful of another round of forced conversions by Sunni Muslims, called on…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – In the latest scandal exposing the corruption that plagues the judiciary, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – As pressures mounts for the government to disband a notorious hard-line Muslim group, one activist expressed concerns…

Jakarta – Environment Minister Balthasar Kambuaya's remark made on July 17 that he would not publish the concession had sparked…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – An animal rights activist who initiated an online petition calling for a criminal probe into the killing of four…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – More than half of children under the age of six have no access to early childhood education, the Education and…

Nurdin Hasan, Ketol, Central Aceh – The sound of a hammer banging on tin echoes through this small village hemmed in by hills. Perched atop a…

With fresh police officers hitting the beat just seven months after graduating from high school, it's no wonder some behave childishly, according…

Bambang Muryanto and Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – The trial of 12 of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) members who allegedly attacked a prison…

As announced by Mr Herman Wainggai, on Monday 29 July at 11am the West Papuan people will be conducting a peaceful demonstration in the city of…

Nadya Natahadibrata and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The government cannot disband the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) using the controversial Mass…

The so-called "martial arts" groups in East Timor continue to wreak havoc in the community despite purported efforts by the government of Xanana…

Members of the House of Lords held a debate about West Papua on Wednesday in which they raised serious concerns about the human rights situation…

The President of the Republic, Taur Matan Ruak asked the Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao not to pander too much private contractors of…

Member of Parliament Ancelmo da Conceicao, from the National Congress for the Reconstruction of Timor (CNRT) bench, said when a member of the…

Camelia Pasandaran – Two Ahmadiyah teachers and a school attendant have left a state elementary school in Cianjur following pressure from local…

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Prosecutors sought on Thursday a suspended sentence for Abdul Azis, the defendant of a harassment case in last year's…

The Timor-Leste Defence Force (F-FDTL) plan to install a naval base in Hera will cause a lot of problems for the community living in Hera,…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Robertus Wardi – Joko Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, may be the pollsters' favorite to win the 2014 presidential…

Stephanie Hendarta – Aburizal Bakrie may not be the most popular presidential hopeful, but a new poll suggests the businessman and Golkar…

A coalition of organisations has requested the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Commission to take action under its Early Warning and…

A newspaper chief editor in West Papua says journalists in the region are pressured by police and government not to publish material…