Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is set to approve a watered down version of the controversial mass organization…

Godwin Ligo – Oceania Decolonization Committee (ODC) president Shem Rarua said Vanuatu leaders compromising the nation's stand on West Papua with…

Singapore's Pollutant Standards Index stood at a record 400 at 11 a.m., a level deemed hazardous, the National Environment Agency, or NEA, said on…

Ezra Sihite – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie said he was confused claims by several leaders of the House of Representatives that they were…

Further information on UA: 336/12 Index: ASA 21/022/2013 Indonesia Date: 21 June 2013

A Shi'a community in Indonesia have been…

Jakarta – Timor Leste President Taur Matan Ruak is scheduled to meet Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the State Palace…

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Government spending on improving infrastructure and transportation facilities will likely fall significantly in 2014 as…

Dessy Sagita & Ezra Sihite – The head of Indonesia's largest labor union promised strikes that could paralyze the country as thousands of…

Amir Tejo, Camelia Pasandaran, Arientha Primanita & Ezra Sihite, Surabaya/Jakarta – The bedraggled group of 162 men, women and children had…

Ina Parlina and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta – Members of the Sampang Shia community have been evicted from a sports complex where they had…

According to the President of the Parliamentary Women's Group of Timor-Leste, MP Josefa Alvares Soares, now is not the time to localize…

A man in Indonesia's Papua province says he is currently on the run from the military after witnessing a massacre of Papuans reported last month…

Farouk Arnaz – Papua Police have named another two suspects over the burning down of a police station in the east of the restive province,…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has invited foreign ministers from Melanesian nations grouped under the Melanesian Spearhead…

Noumea, New Caledonia – Another group has emerged claiming to legitimately represent the people of West Papua are lobbying for recognition at the…

George Roberts, Indonesia – Indonesia's Human Rights Commission is under fire from supporters of 12 soldiers who stormed a prison and…

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – A group of female activists voiced their rejection on Wednesday of the planned fuel-price hike, which they said would…

The Timor-Leste Defence Force Chief, Major General Lere Anan Timur, has called on the defence and security institutions in the country…

Jakarta – Belu Deputy Regent Lodovikus Taolin said that Indonesia and Timor Leste would work to uphold law enforcement along the…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Bowing to pressure from Muslim groups, politicians and rights activists, the National Police is set to revoke an…

Urgent Appeal Update: AHRC-UAU-019-2013

[RE: AHRC-UAC-064-2013: Indonesia:…

The State Secretary for Professional Training and Employment (SEFOPE), Elidio Ximenes said the country's law banned children from…

Ethan Harfenist – The national human rights body has called on judges in the court martial of 12 soldiers charged with the summary execution of…

Indonesia on Thursday accused Singapore of "behaving like a child" by complaining about severe haze from raging forest fires on…

Yeremia Sukoyo – The Attorney General's Office has been urged to take a hard line on corruption suspects by issuing travel bans and detaining them…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) released on Wednesday a report on its inquiry into the execution-style…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Edi Hardum – A legislator and workers' rights activist has highlighted what she says is a massive scam facilitated…

The House of Representatives is expected to pass the draft revision to the 1985 Mass Organizations Law next week, as all factions in the House…

Camelia Pasandaran & Arientha Primanita – A fatal mob attack on a community in East Java that displaced 160 Shiite Muslims took another turn…

Bagus BT Saragih and Rizal Harahap, Jakarta/Pekanbaru – Amid criticism from its neighbors, Malaysia and Singapore, over the cross-border haze and…

Farouk Arnaz – Police in Papua have arrested 14 people following Sunday's attack on a police district headquarters in Pegunungan Bintang, a police…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The ruling coalition has deemed the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) an opposition party…

Index: ASA 21/021/2013

The upcoming trial of 12 Kopassus (Special Forces Command) soldiers accused of extrajudicially executing four…

Rizal Harahap – Singapore's worst air pollution in 16 years sparked diplomatic tension on Tuesday, as the city state urged Indonesia to provide…

Criticism has mounted over the government's lack of discussion regarding the Rp 155 billion ($15.7 million) fund allocation in the 2013 state…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The brouhaha over the National Police's ban on the hijab (headscarf) is about to get political with the House of…

Jennifer Robinson – As the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) prepares to consider West Papua's application for membership, it is important for…

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia's Parliament voted to approve a budget package on Monday that lays the groundwork for the slashing of…

Jakarta – Some rallies against the proposed fuel-price hike staged across the archipelago on Monday were tainted by violence.

National…

Bayu Marhaenjati – Jakarta Police have arrested 88 people after forcibly breaking up a protest against Monday night's fuel-price vote…

Indonesia's political parties are hardly paragons of consistency, but the sheer number of flip-flops in the past week, culminating in Monday's…

Tito Summa Siahaan – Economists and business leaders have urged the government to treat the decision to reduce fuel subsidies only as a first step…

Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) members launch a long march to the State Palace in Jakarta to…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A team of psychologists examining 42 witnesses in the attack that took place in Cebongan Penitentiary, Sleman,…

Banjir Ambarita – Dozens of people vandalized Freeport facilities and looted ore concentrate at the copper and gold giant's mining district in…

It has been recommended that a bid by the Free West Papua movement to join regional Pacific body the Melanesian Spearhead Group to been deferred…

Carlos Paath – The Mimika Regency government in Papua has asked the central government to push forward talks with Freeport Indonesia in order to…

Jakarta – The Sunni majority in Sampang, Madura, East Java, had no problem welcoming the return of ostracized Shia community members; the main…

The notorious former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin is maintaining his power and influence despite being locked up in jail on…

Jakarta – The US Department of State's 2012 Report on International Religious Freedom has revealed that the Indonesian government has…