Yuli Tri Suwarni, Depok – After cooling off for a month, protest against construction of a grand mosque by the Indonesian Islam Propagation…

Jakarta, Indonesia – Poisoning or shooting killed many of the 129 critically endangered elephants that have died on Indonesia's Sumatra island in…

Yeremia Sukoyo – Newly installed Army Chief of Staff Gen. Moeldoko vows to change the culture of the Indonesian military, including getting rid of…

Corry Elyda and Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The Coalition of Jakarta Residents Opposing Water Privatization (KMMSAJ) filed a lawsuit against city…

Members of Parliament are concerned because the number of people unemployed within the country continues to increase every year.

MP Maria…

SP/Fana FS Putra – A woman accused of stealing two BlackBerry cellphones was assaulted before being stripped bare and shaved bald in…

[An interview with Mugiyanto, a victim of enforced disappearance, published by the Asian Human Rights Commission.]

During 1997-1998,…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Members of the Papuan Students Alliance (AMP) studying in West Java staged a rally on Monday demanding the United Nations…

Camelia Pasandaran – Political prisoners held at Papua's Abepura Prison rejected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's offer to grant them clemency…

Children born as a result of sexual abuse by the Indonesian military during the occupation currently have difficulty obtaining official birth…

[An interview with Mugiyanto, a victim of enforced disappearance, published by the Asian Human Rights Commission.]

During 1997-1998,…

Singapore – Timor-Leste said it is committed to building its human resources in order to contribute fully to the Association of…

Clinton Fernandes – A parliamentary inquiry examining Australia's relationship with East Timor is underway and the proceedings so far do not make…

Ritchie King – That extreme outlier in the chart above, the one throwing off the entire scale – that's East Timor. The value shown is the…

Jakarta – As politicians from the older generation call for the strengthening of the state ideology Pancasila, members of the younger generation…

Jakarta – Indonesia recorded its second-largest trade deficit ever of US$1.62 billion in April, data from the Central Statistics…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Rights groups are strongly opposed to the proposal for mandatory military service, saying that the plan would…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – A recent public opinion poll inferred that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's second term was a complete failure.…

Jakarta – Former vice president Jusuf Kalla said that, in spite of his flawed performance, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono deserved the World…

Camelia Pasandaran & Ezra Sihite – Indonesian Embassy officials denied claims that the office paid Indonesians living in the United States to…

Wasti Atmodjo – The Indonesian government has proposed the adoption of "Eastern values" during the prestigious Miss World competition scheduled to…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy – A controversial bill that calls for a mandatory draft has polarized opinion at the…

Jakarta – Election watchdog the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) predicted that political parties will use election…

Rangga Prakoso – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold reported another death at its Grasberg mine in Papua on Sunday after a worker was…

According to an English translation of a report by newspaper Independente, the Deputy Prime Minister of East Timor, Fernando Lasama Araujo, has…

Kanupriya Kapoor & Andrew R.C. Marshall – Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, might well be the future of Indonesian democracy.…

Jakarta – A protestant church in Cipinang Muara, East Jakarta, was sealed off by the Building Supervision and Regulation Agency (P2B)…

Rebecca Lake & Sandra Siagian, Jakarta/New York – Standing in front of the two-meter concrete wall, barbed wire and corrugated iron fence that…

Novianti Setuningsih & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Djoko Susilo, former National Police Traffic Corps. chief, received billions of rupiah from…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has claimed success after putting Aru regent Teddy Tengko and former National Police…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Friday that it would investigate whether House of…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A number of activists grouped under the Indonesian Kretek Community (KKI) staged a rally in Medan, North Sumatra, not to…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Fifteen years into the reform era, the public still have little faith in the rule of law in the…

Singapore – The United States will step up its military cooperation with Indonesia, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in Singapore on Friday…

Acts of violence against journalists in Indonesia will continue to increase in line with political tensions ahead of next year's legislative and…

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to the President of the Republic of Indonesia

Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
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Gabriel Kereh – When the Australian government released its 2013 defense white paper earlier this month, a key point that emerged was the…

Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy – Prabowo Subianto, a former Army general widely considered the leading candidate for next year's presidential…

Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali is planning to send Islamic preachers to help address the long-running ethnic separatist insurgency in…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – A study conducted by the Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (ELSAM) shows that Jakarta, in spite of its…

London – Two human rights lawyers from West Papua, Olga Hamadi and Gustaf Kawer, are today being honoured at a ceremony for the Lawyers for…

Dessy Sagita – Five-year-old Bayu was watching a movie on television. During the ad break, a barrage of cigarette ads streamed across the screen.…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono received in New York on Thursday evening the World Statesman Award from a US…

Ian Dulkowski – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono received in New York on Thursday evening the World Statesman Award from a US interfaith…

Jakarta – As President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prepares to accept the controversial World Statesman Award, a joint-ministerial meeting on the…

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – While it cannot technically prohibit Miss World contestants from donning bikinis during the event's final in Bali,…

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – The city of Balikpapan is gearing up for a vice crackdown involving enforcement of alcohol restrictions, a…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' apparent animosity toward the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is…

Rebecca Lake – As local authorities debate over banishing Indonesia's Ahmadiyah Muslim sect and several congregations remain barred from their…

A leading Australian research firm has dismissed as "very wrong" and "potentially dangerous" the findings of a US-based think tank that concluded…