Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Despite public opposition, the House of Representatives (DPR) has decided to continue deliberating the national…

The Trade Ministry on Friday said it was conducting random sampling of meatball soup sold by vendors in Greater Jakarta, threatening five-year…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' ethics council revealed on Thursday that it had imposed disciplinary measures,…

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – Victims of serious human rights violations are demanding the government restore their good name and straighten…

The Constitutional Court has rejected a request to transfer the full burden of compensation covering all the land affected by the Lapindo mudflow…

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – HIV/AIDS advocacy groups have called for an integrated effort to protect HIV-positive women from becoming the…

[The following is a speech by ETAN's Chris Lundry at a Freeport protest in Phoenix, AZ, on December 14, 2012.]

My name is Chris…

A journalist group in Aceh has urged local police to investigate the attack against two journalists in East Aceh.

Ivo Lestari,…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Victims of the 1965 coup blamed on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) have praised a documentary on the alleged…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Some lawmakers are questioning the inclusion of a bill to regulate tobacco on their legislative…

[Indonesia's experience shows to the world how democracy is compatible with security and how the two produce a much more authentic and robust…

Antonia Timmerman – A lack of civil liberties and political rights has caused Indonesia to slide four points on the United Nations Development…

Bayu Marhaenjati – Indonesian terrorists have shifted their targets to attack police stations over churches, an analyst says.

Terrorism…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Lawmakers are closely scrutinizing budget allocations at the Religious Affairs Ministry after discovering…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Two teams of lawmakers from the House of Representatives' Commission VII have departed for visits to the United States…

Surabaya, East Java – Indonesia's retired army general, Wiranto, will run for president in 2014. "I am ready to run for president in 2014," said…

Jakarta – Mining and plantation companies are among the actors that should be held responsible for numerous human rights abuses in the country,…

Apriadi Gunawan and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Medan – A widespread industrial strike took place in Medan, North Sumatra, on Tuesday with thousands of…

Jayapura, Papua – The Police chief of Jayapura in Papua province, Adjunct Senior Commissioner Alfred Papare, has stated that Muslim youths will…

Jakarta – As much as 70 percent of the government's budget for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs come from foreign donations…

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Despite massive campaigns in the past five years, the government has failed to convince more people to use…

Jakarta Police arrested four people on Wednesday for running a meat processing factory that allegedly mixed pork into what is supposed to be pure…

Jakarta – Despite allegations of child molestation against a number of local clerics in the city, not one suspect has been detained due to a lack…

Rizky Amelia – A survey by the national antigraft commission has identified the Forestry Ministry as the government institution with the lowest…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The People's Consultative Assembly says a resolution it issued in 1967 stripping Sukarno of his presidency for an…

Young prisoners and adults are held in the same prison but PRADET says this will impact their mental health.

At least 21 minors are being…

Despite the large number of people who disappeared during the 24-year Indonsesian occupation, Timor-Leste has not ratified the Missing Persons…

According to data from conflict monitoring NGO Belun, in 2012 some 15 member of Timor-Leste's armed forces (F-FDTL) were involved in violent…

Cillian Nolan – The UN peacekeeping mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) is now in the final stages of its long-planned withdrawal. By the end of…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has named the police and companies as the top human rights violators in the country…

Indonesia's state ideology of Pancasila has come under scathing criticism for enabling a culture of repression against atheists, with an…

Ainur Rohmah and Bambang Muryanto, Semarang/Yogyakarta – International Human Rights Day, which fell on Monday, was marked with rallies staged by…

Jakarta – A senior minister has stated that the country did not need a strongman president because such a person would tend to prioritize his own…

Jakarta – The graft scandals that have implicated several Democratic Party politicians will not cause the party to collapse, but will…

Jakarta – The growth in the number of wealthy individuals over the last 10 years has been spectacular, increasing by five fold or by 500 percent…

Ridwan Max Sijabat – While executives have complained that recently approved wage hikes smell of populism and capitulation to unions, several…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – As workers held mass protests and strikes last week, thousands of labor-intensive companies are seeking government…

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a revision to the government regulation dealing with human resources at the…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Less than a week after one of his ministers was named a graft suspect, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-201-2012

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the case…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – As the world commemorated Human Rights Day on Dec. 10, human rights activists and victims of abuse condemned the…

Jakarta – A law that was specifically designed to handle social conflict across the country is considered ineffective as the legislation does not…

George Roberts, Indonesia – Indonesia's Foreign Minister has vowed to review any cases of journalists being refused entry to the…

Sampang, Indonesia – Condemned as heretics, a community of around 200 Shiite Muslims have for months lived as pariahs in a sports hall, driven…

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – With the Jakarta branch of the Great Indonesian Movement Party on Saturday announcing its…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has told Democratic Party executives to brace for the worst in anticipation of the…

Jakarta – Holding on to the belief that the majority of Indonesian people long for the calm and order of the Soeharto era, members of the former…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Despite an outward appearance of solidarity in support of demands for improving the welfare of the nation's workers…

AHRC-STM-256-2012

[A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the occasion of the Human Rights Day 2012.]

On the…

Camelia Pasandaran – Things continue to go from bad to worse for Aceng Fikri, the embattled head of Garut district in West Java.

The…