After a peace pact in 2001 that ended three years of bloody sectarian conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi, extremists linked to and directed by al-…

Arientha Primanita – After creating a stir by banning government officials from colluding with lawmakers, Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam has caused…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The row between members of the House of Representatives (DPR) and State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) Minister Dahlan…

Approximately 50 students and one teacher affiliated with an Islamic boarding school and allegedly involved in terrorist activities were taken…

The UN human rights chief on Tuesday condemned violence and discrimination against Christians and Muslim minorities like Shiites in Indonesia, the…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Members of the Shia community from Sampang, Madura, East Java, who have suffered religious persecution, called…

Bagus BT Saragih and Ruslan Sangadji, Jakarta – The police and military personnel combed Maros regency in South Sulawesi on Monday for two…

Jakarta – Blame it on Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo. It is a moot point whether the checkered shirt that Jokowi wore while on the campaign…

After a period of relative peace, Poso, Central Sulawesi, was again rocked by a series of incidents that have occurred in the past three months.…

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili was full of people on Nov. 1. In preparation for Nov. 2, the Day of the Spirits, they…

Rights groups marking the 21st anniversary of the massacre of 270 Timorese by Indonesian forces are demanding justice for this and other crimes…

United Nations – A UN official says peacekeepers are on track to leave East Timor by year's end, but the international community will…

Matthew Russell Lee, United Nations – Timor Leste is called a rare UN success story, and it is slated to come off the agenda of the Security…

This afternoon (12 November), the Security Council is scheduled to hold a debate on the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), whose…

Ezra Sihite – Former State Enterprises Ministry secretary Said Didu has backed up claims made by current minister Dahlan Iskan that lawmakers have…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – "Rahman" and his four colleagues were apprehended by the National Police's Densus 88 counterterrorism personnel in a house…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry has issued a regulation that raises the non-taxable income threshold of individual taxpayers…

Jakarta – The General Election Commission (KPU) announced over the weekend that out of 16 political parties, 13 had passed the factual…

Index: ASA 57/007/2012

[Joint statement by ANTI (The Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal) and Amnesty…

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) urged the United Nations, the US, and other governments to fulfill outstanding promises of…

Jakarta – The decision by the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to dismiss the National Commission on Human Rights' (Komnas HAM) finding that the…

Andylala Waluyo, Jakarta – The chairperson of the Institute for the Study of the 1965-1966 Massacres (YPKP 65), Bejo Untung, told Voice of America…

Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – Pariyono Andri Winoto, 47, his wife Endang Hartati, 44, and their two teenage daughters were among the first few…

Kuala Lumpur – Three policemen have been accused of gang-raping an Indonesian woman at a police station in a northern Malaysian town.

Lau…

Amahl S. Azwar and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Eka, who owns and runs a cellular phone shop in Palmerah market in West Jakarta, does not see the…

Jakarta – Attorney General Basrief Arief said the systematic persecution of alleged members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) after the…

Mark Fenn, Singapore – This has been a big year for Timor Leste, with one of the world's smallest and most impoverished countries passing a series…

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – The government needs to prohibit the conversion of rice fields into housing, industrial complexes or other non-…

Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Mahfud MD has called for the dismissal and replacement of all law enforcement officials so the…

Rangga Prakoso, Ezra Sihite, Bayu Marhaenjati& Firdha Novialita – The Attorney General's Office has rejected a plea by the National Commission…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Three of the five lawmakers whose names recently forwarded to the House of Representatives ethics council were…

Timika – The chief of police in Papua has announced that he will be setting up a special team to investigate recent acts of terror in the vicinity…

Katrin Figge – In Indonesia, lesbian women, as well as gay men, bisexuals and transgender individuals, often face intolerance and violence from…

Samsul Maarif, Yogyakarta – Indonesia is a country where religious education is taught to school students probably in the most extensive way in…

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry has postponed issuing a controversial revised decree…

Dessy Sagita – Indonesia's infant mortality rate matches that of significantly poorer Bangladesh, and blame for the alarmingly high rate lies with…

Camelia Pasandaran & Ethan Harfenist – More than 30 Shiites in Sampang, East Java, have reportedly been forced to embrace Sunni Islam after…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – At least 200 members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) staged a demonstration in Bandung, West Java on Thursday, demanding…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has officially nominated the pairing of member of the House of Representatives Rieke…

In the last quarter the Petroleum Fund of Timor-Leste increased by nearly US$400 million to US$11.05441 billion dollars, indicates a…

The leaders of Australia, Indonesia and East Timor have held their first official trilateral meeting, discussing the strength of relations between…

George Roberts – Prime Minister Julia Gillard is claiming a first in regional diplomacy, after securing a joint meeting with the leaders of…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-193-2012

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you about a case…

Jakarta – Graft convict Muhammad Nazaruddin claims that he has provided the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) with documents that can reveal…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) in North Sumatra has attributed the major flooding that hit several…

Indonesian celebrities have hijacked the electoral process, Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo warned on Thursday in a speech criticizing what he called…

Jakarta – More than two years after their last meeting in 2010, chair of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Megawati…

Amahl S. Azwar, Jakarta – One of the country's oldest foreign investors PT Sepatu Bata, the makers of the well-known footwear brand Bata, says it…

Jakarta – Taking a contrary view to his deputy, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan has said he is pessimistic about Indonesia's exports being able to…

Jakarta – The 2012 Indo Defence Expo and Forum, the country's largest military equipment exhibition, is expected to boost partnership between…