Fadli, Batam – The Riau Islands governor has appointed a former graft convict, Azirwan, as head of the provincial maritime resources and fishery…

Timika, Papua – Police in Papua's Mimika district will use CCTV recordings to help identify members of a 300-strong mob that attacked a Freeport…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Another stumbling block has been placed in the path of Prabowo Subianto's presidential ambitions by rival…

Jonathan Vit – New Zealand's public pension fund pulled more than $1 million in investment from Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold over…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The future of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) is uncertain as the House of Representatives…

Fatulmau, East Timor – Filomena Mendonca gave birth to all five of her children at home in the village of Fatulmau, high up in the mountains of…

On 24 September, trade unions belonging to the recently formed Majelis Pekerja Buruh Indonesia (Indonesian Worker Employees Assembly - MPBI) have…

James Balowski, Jakarta – A suicide in Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh by a teenager who was publicly humiliated by the province's…

Ezra Sihite – Less than a week after the duo of Joko Widodo and Basuki Tjahaja Purnama won the gubernatorial election in Jakarta, the political…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Although the presidential election is 17 months away, prospects dimmed for Prabowo Subianto after members of the…

Jayapura – Buchtar Tabuni, 32, human rights activist and leader of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), was sentenced to eight…

IHRC is delighted that the NZ Superannuation Fund has decided to pull its investments from the Freeport McMoran mining giant. (NZ Superannuation…

Palembang – Residents of the Sidodadi subdistrict in Palembang, South Sumatra, staged a demonstration on Monday in front of the…

Pitan Daslani – Joko Widodo and deputy Basuki Tjahaja Purnama's victory in Jakarta gubernatorial election has prompted an open-ended question…

Ezra Sihite & Farouk Arnaz – The Corruption Eradication Commission has been assured it will have full control over the detention facility it…

Farouk Arnaz – A human rights group on Tuesday expressed support for the National Police and its anti-terror unit in the ongoing fight against…

Jakarta – After several weeks, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has resumed investigation of graft in the construction of the Rp 2.5…

Jakarta – Activists have criticized the government and House of Representatives for failing to provide protection to migrant workers employed…

Fadli, Batam – More Singaporeans and Malaysians have been spending their weekends in Batam, Riau Islands, over the last few months after the…

Apriadi Gunawan and Oyos Saroso, Medan/Bandar Lampung – Dozens were hospitalized after hundreds of farmers clashed with riot police at the…

Bayu Marhaenjati – The Islamic Defenders Front says it will persist with a campaign to close down all convenience stores that sell alcoholic…

Firdha Novialita – A human rights group on Tuesday criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's plan to propose an international protocol…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi has said that the government is drawing up a regulation that would make it possible…

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S. Aritonang, New York/Jakarta – As President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prepared to take the podium at the 67th…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Activists and rights campaigners have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to use his visit to Papua…

Madiun, East Java – A sergeant on Monday became the first Indonesian soldier to be convicted of people-smuggling as Jakarta tries to stem the flow…

Dozens of Christians staged a protest on Sunday to denounce the anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims, saying that free speech should not be used…

Rahmat, Makassar – Students protesting against the film "Innocence of Muslims" on Monday targeted several outlets of American fast food franchises…

Presi Mandari – At 72, Sri Sulistyawati still remembers the day when two Indonesian soldiers placed a wooden plank across her belly and used her…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Thousands of farmers in North Sumatra, Lampung, West and East Java are slated to take to the streets in observance of…

Jakarta – In the midst of allegations surrounding a high-profile graft case centered on the driving simulators procurement project, human rights…

National Police Chief Gen. Timur Pradopo has been implicated in the driving simulator graft case that recently sparked off a fresh feud between…

Rizky Amelia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam on Monday gave the Corruption Eradication Commission the recording of a…

Jakarta – Workers from the Joint Labour Secretariat (Sekber Buruh) have agreed to hold a national strike on October 3. They are demanding the…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Lenny Tristia Tambun – While several analysts say that Joko Widodo's victory in the Jakarta gubernatorial election…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi said on Monday that his ministry was working with the Law and Human Rights Ministry…

Jakarta – Rights groups have blasted the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for doing very little to solve past human rights…

UA: 273/12 Index: ASA 21/039/2012

Papuan human rights lawyer Olga Hamadi has been threatened after investigating allegations of…

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta, Indonesia – An elite Indonesian anti-terror squad has arrested 10 Islamic militants and seized a dozen homemade bombs…

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – With car sales set to hit a new record of one million units this year, more than double the amount just eight years ago,…

Jakarta – Experts refute concerns that Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his running mate, Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, may have to compromise with power…

Pitan Daslani – Joko Widodo's victory in the Jakarta gubernatorial election has caused many politicians to re-examine their approach in…

Jakarta – Some 20 members of hard-line group the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) sealed 7-Eleven convenience store in Pejaten, Pasar Minggu in South…

Bayu Marhaenjati – Police in South Jakarta broke up a hard-line Islamic mob on Saturday night after they forcibly closed a 7-Eleven outlet on…

Ismira Lutfia – The Human Rights Working Group has lamented Indonesia's refusal to accept specific recommendations to give foreign journalists…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Pulp and paper mill PT Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL) acknowledged on Friday that it had deployed security apparatus to face…

Yogyakarta legislators affirmed a new era for some old faces on Friday, declaring Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X and Paku Alam IX the province's next…

A mob of some 300 people on Friday attacked an office of gold mining company Freeport Indonesia in Timika, Papua.

The angry crowd also…

Pitan Daslani, Dion Bisara & Tito Summa Siahaan – As Jakarta's next governor Joko Widodo prepares to take the oath of office in early October…

Ezra Sihite & Lenny Tristia Tambun – Incumbent Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo's defeat to Solo Mayor Joko Widodo in the Jakarta gubernatorial…