Carlos Paath – Next year's legislative election is unlikely to yield any dramatic improvement in the quality of members of the House of…

Arya Dipa, Bandung/Jakarta – No one was injured as unknown assailants attacked an Ahmadhi hamlet in Tenjowaringin village in Tasikmalaya, West…

Nivell Rayda, Bandung, West Java – Java's indigenous faith practitioners have faced hardship for generations and a visit to one of their enclaves…

Damien Kingsbury – Violence has again broken out in Indonesia's troubled province of West Papua, with the Australian-supported counter-terrorism…

Indonesia on Monday summoned the British ambassador in Jakarta to protest after a group supporting the independence of the restive Papua region…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives urged the government to officially ask the United Kingdom to not…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – British Ambassador to Indonesia Mark Canning said on Saturday that the UK government did not support the activities of the…

Police in Papua have defended the fatal shooting of two pro-Papuan independence activists on Wednesday, saying that the pair tried to…

Angela Dewan – Sibolangit. A baby Sumatran orangutan swings playfully on a branch at an Indonesian rescue center, a far cry from the terror he…

Index: ASA 21/012/2013

The Indonesian authorities – and in particular the Ministry of Home Affairs – must immediately reopen at least…

Karl Quinn – Kirsty Sword Gusmao answers the door of her mother's house on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula wearing flat-heeled boots, a patterned…

Rory Callinan – A war crimes investigation into the killing of five Australian journalists in East Timor appears in danger of stalling after a key…

Dessy Sagita – An Ahmadiyah community in Tasikmalaya, West Java, was left in shambles on Sunday after hundreds of Islamic hard-line group members…

Jakarta – Khotiah, a factory worker, said she never expected her back-breaking work spanning 11 years at the Siliwangi Knitting Factory in North…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura/Jakarta – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has visited Indonesia and has…

SP/Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy – Activists slammed the Indonesian government for weak statesmanship after a Papuan separatist group opened an…

Jakarta – Actress Khadijah Azhari, popularly known as Ayu Azhari, returned money she received from graft suspect Ahmad Fathanah, a…

Sara Everingham and staff – East Timor is seeking to tear up a treaty with Australia on oil and gas revenues in the Timor Sea, arguing Australia…

Bambang Muryanto and Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Yogyakarta/Bandung – The commemorations to mark World Press Freedom Day, which fell on Friday, were as…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The second annual "2+2" dialogue between the defense and foreign ministers of Australia and Indonesia on Wednesday…

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka & Yuli Krisna, Malang/Bandung – Reporters and activists highlighted the lack of protection for journalists in Indonesia to…

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) strongly urge the US government to condemn the unwarranted…

Laura Dawson – Australia is looking to deepen its ties with Indonesia in order to better ensure its own security, according to the Australian 2013…

Jakarta – The sluggish pace of a police investigation has led the family of Safira Raudatul Janah, 14, a victim of a stray bullet in Jl. Cideng,…

Michael Bachelard – Johanes Lokobal sits on the grass that cushions the wooden floor of his little, one-room house. He warms his hands at a fire…

Police in Tangerang sealed a frying pan factory and arrested its owner, who allegedly held his underaged workers in captivity while forcing them…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has expressed serious concerns over the crackdown on mass demonstrations across Papua…

Ina Parlina – While many citizens are enjoying new freedoms, minorities are still persecuted.

The court's past rulings present a mixed…

Sabine Siebold, Berlin – The German government has approved the sale to Indonesia of about 100 used Leopard 2 tanks and 50 armored…

Activists slammed the Sampang government in East Java for halting food and clean water supplies en route to displaced Shiites who had to evacuate…

Michael Bachelard – Islamic terrorists in Indonesia have a new target after militant godfather Abu Bakar Bashir threatened holy war against the…

Bayu Marhaenjati & AFP – Hundreds of members of radical Islamic groups on Friday called for "jihad in Myanmar" during rallies in front of the…

Graft convict Susno Duadji is now in detention after surrendering to authorities on Thursday evening.

"That's correct. He came last night…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Raymond Prasetya, a 24-year old employee at a Japanese company, was driving alone on Jl. Pasteur in Bandung, West…

Index: ASA 21/011/2013

On the 14th anniversary of one of the most notorious attacks by Indonesian forces against civilians in Aceh –…

A Koran teacher in Cakung, East Jakarta, has been accused of sexually harassing 14 of his students.

"Every time the perpetrator [sodomized…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Banda Aceh Administrative Court on Friday ruled in favor of a palm oil company in its lawsuit against the Aceh…

East Timor is seeking to tear up a treaty on the sharing of oil and gas revenues with Australia because it says Australia spied on it during the…

Hundreds of workers at Freeport-McMoRan's Indonesian mine returned to work on Friday after a three-day strike over pay, the US firm said, ending…

Jakarta – The latest violence carried out by the security forces in Papua and West Papua provinces on April 30 and May 1, 2013, have been met with…

Bagus BT Saragih and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta/Surabaya – When workers decided that the front of the State Palace would be the main location…

For the 13th year in a row, Indonesia has been included on a watchlist of countries with appalling religious freedoms.

The US Commission on…

In an open letter to three UN Special Rapporteurs, the Human Rights Working Group-Indonesia decries the unfair legal process against and the…

Hans Nicholas Jong – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questioned swimsuit model and actress Khadijah Azhari, popularly known as Ayu…

International Workers Day, or May Day as it is more popularly called, was commemorated differently across the archipelago on Wednesday, ranging…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – With Indonesia joining more than 80 other countries by declaring May 1 a national holiday from next year, thousands…

Jayapura – While people all over the world commemorated May 1 as a day for workers, residents in Papua celebrated on Wednesday the…

George Roberts – Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says his country should strive to have a more powerful military than…

Fana F.S. Putra – A mass organization notorious for its gang-related activities says it wants to shed its reputation for physical violence and…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-066-2013

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a…