Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Rights groups say the World Statesman Award for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is nothing but a publicity…

Head of state: Jose Maria Vasconcelos (Taur Matan Ruak, replaced Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta in May)
Head of government: Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao…

James Ross, New York – It's not every day that a world leader whose country frequently makes the news for sectarian violence wins a religious…

Ezra Sihite, Carlos Paath & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Legislators have reacted strongly to the emergency landing by a US military aircraft at…

A US State Department report on religious freedom worldwide has highlighted the growing intolerance toward minority groups in Indonesia, amid a…

Carlos Paath – The investigation into a graft case in which at least two Democratic Party officials have been charged has been intentionally…

Jakarta – Activists say more work is needed to fight online discrimination against homosexuals and transgendered people.

Kamilia Manaf, a…

A day after rescuers pulled the last body from the rubble of a recent mine collapse that killed 28 workers, Freeport has turned its attention to a…

The Forestry Ministry has denied claims by several environmental groups that 1.2 million hectares of protected forest in Aceh will be cleared if…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Close aides of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have blasted critics who said that the President did not deserve the…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Antigraft watchdog Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) claims to have found in its survey that political parties…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Adj. First Insp. Labora Sitorus, a Papua Police officer accused of owning fat bank accounts, has said he wired money…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro claims the government is complying with the principles of the treaty underlying…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – It is now official that Indonesia will not ratify the Rome Statute for the accession to the International…

The twenty first of May 1998 is celebrated by the Indonesians as the birth of reform in their country. It marks the resignation of the then…

Rangga Prakoso – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) on Tuesday accused the Attorney General's Office of violating human rights…

ALRC-CWS-23-03-2013

Human Rights Council

Twenty-third session, Agenda Item 3, General Debate

A written statement…

Lauren Gumbs, Perth, Australia – Indonesia's booming middle-class is a hot topic these days; they spend more, earn more and will supersize the…

Lauren Gumbs – Indonesia is indicating increased concern for its territorial integrity and international image in the wake of public pressure over…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party's (PKS) top brass denied on Monday an allegation that the party planned to siphon…

Camelia Pasandaran – Police and residents in Tulungagung, East Java, allegedly forced a member of an Ahmadiyah community to board up his mosque in…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro has mooted the idea of a military discipline law to address a recent spate of…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed on Monday Lt. Gen. Moeldoko as the new Army chief of staff to replace Gen.…

Jakarta – An activist says that new Health Minister Regulation No. 21/2013 on HIV/AIDS control has brought a fresh breeze in fulfilling the rights…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – More than a million people worldwide have joined online calls for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to block the…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) appearing to be preoccupied with the beef importation scandal…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has warned Muslims against the resurgence of the Indonesian Communist Party, disbanded by…

Randy Fabi & Nilufar Rizki, Jakarta – When a sick Indonesian baby died after 10 hospitals in Jakarta turned her family away in February,…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Antigraft and police watchdogs suspect that the sudden arrest by the National Police of…

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest economy, may be set to take advantage of the myriad benefits of the ASEAN Economic…

Yuliasri Perdani – Fourteen years after being separated from the Indonesian Military (TNI), the National Police remains one of the few state…

Dubious bank accounts worth more than Rp 1 trillion (US$103 million) allegedly owned by a low-ranking Papua Police officer are the latest…

Indonesian religious minorities on Monday slammed a decision by a US interfaith group to honor President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at a time when…

Jakarta – "I knew something was wrong," Hamidah, 57, said. Her son, 14-year-old Ahmad Zainuddin, or Udin, had never missed evening prayers, but…

Camelia Pasandaran – Police have halted an investigation into last week's attack on an Ahmadiyah mosque in Tulungagung, East Java, citing an…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Indonesia, a country that has been recognized for nurturing hostility against religious minorities, has now also…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has made a scathing criticism of the poor handling of the Sidoarjo mudflow by the…

Popular support for Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo to run for president next year continues to mount, despite his insistence that he wants to see…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A presidential spokesman said on Friday that howls of protest against a plan by the US-based Appeal of Conscience…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – An NGO unveiled that media liberalization, which started in 1998, has served the owners' interests…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Efforts by the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) to distance itself from Ahmad Fathanah were stymied after the…

Jakarta – The chairperson of the country's top religious body the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI), KH Ma'ruf Amin is calling on all parties to be…

Jakarta – More than a dozen people, claiming to be students, staged a protest in front of the Defense Ministry in Jakarta on Friday…

More than a million people across the globe have signed an online petition demanding the Indonesian government to cancel the plan to open the…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Activists are applauding the extension of a government moratorium on issuing forest…

A South Sumatra court sentenced two environmental activists to seven months in prison for provoking a riot against a sugar plantation, despite a…

[Comments On the US Department of State's Annual Country Report On Human Rights for 2012 Concerning Indonesia/West Papua:…

A mob of more than 100 people damaged an Ahmadiyah mosque in Tulungagung, East Java, on Thursday night.

Baitul Salam mosque, located in…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A proposed bill regulating the state apparatus would allow the government to fire poorly performing civil servants…

Lenny Tristia Tambun – Eleven Jakarta hospitals announced on Friday that they backed out of the Jakarta Health Card program, saying…