A. Junaidi, Jakarta – Civil rights activists grouped under 'IndonesiaTanpaFPI' (Indonesia without FPI) will continue its campaign…

Agus Triyono – The government's $91 million purchase of a new presidential jet has not flown smoothly with a coalition of NGOs, who on Sunday…

Jakarta – United Development Party chairman Suryadharma Ali invited all Islamic parties to join his party, excluding, however, the Prosperous…

After President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono acknowledged that security forces have committed human rights violations in Papua, Amnesty International…

Jakarta – A notorious cleric, identified as Habib H, who has been reported for alleged sexual abuse, failed to answer the National…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police will summon Hasan bin Ja'afar Assegaf, a influential cleric who is accused of sexually…

SP/Robertus Wardi – The antigraft agency has kept a recording of an incriminating BlackBerry Messenger conversation between Democratic Party…

The Jakarta Police on Friday denied stalling in bringing to court several cases of alleged sexual assault by a renowned traditional…

Novianti Setuningsih – Lawmaker Mahyuddin N.S. says prawns and not money was the topic of a discussion at the Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry…

Andreas D. Arditya – Two groups – one representing a coalition of nationalist political parties, the other comprised of Muslim parties – are…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – The death toll from violent clashes between supporters of rival political candidates in Papua's Tolikara district now…

Jakarta – Muhammadiyah Youth chairman Saleh Daulay said that in its actions the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) had acted beyond law…

Jakarta – The East Java chapter of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)'s youth wings GP Ansor and Banser urged the government to suspend or even…

Yuli Krisna & Ulma Haryanto, Cianjur, West Java – A mob of about 50 people attacked and vandalized a mosque on Friday that was being used by…

Bayu Marhaenjati – Jakarta Police named three members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) as suspects on Friday for vandalizing the Home Affairs…

The plot thickens in the saga of the leadership of the Democratic Party with an aide to party chairman Anas Urbaningrum claiming that two major…

Damien Kingsbury – As Timor-Leste heads into the three rounds of 2012 elections, election observers have begun to organise to monitor the election…

During Indonesia's 25-year occupation of East Timor, about 4-thousand children were transferred to Indonesia to live with adoptive parents. Some…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The dispute between factions of former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) members may escalate following a coordination…

Jakarta – The government says it wants to help more people join the ranks of the nation's 90 million street vendors in order to…

Razali Ritonga, Jakarta – The labor protests over minimum wage demands that recently occurred in some parts of Indonesia should have been…

Ulma Haryanto – The slew of clashes between communities and police officers and the apparent increase in public distrust in the law enforcement…

Mary Anugrah Rasita – The deaths of at least 44 people in a series of accidents involving buses this year has prompted commuters, operators and…

A leading researcher on West Papua says the trial of five Papuan leaders for treason has hallmarks of being another public relations…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The incidence of HIV/AIDS in Papua has become a general epidemic stage that requires immediate action to prevent…

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., the largest publicly traded copper producer, will cooperate with the Indonesian government as it reviews…

Padang – State Prosecutor Zulkardiman demanded that two alleged striptease dancers, SS and NA, receive 18 months in prison on Thursday…

Bagus BT Saragih and Agnes Winarti, Jakarta/Denpasar – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been infuriated by the widening rifts in the…

Ezra Sihite & Hangga Brata – Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi asked the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front not to rush to open branches in…

Jakarta – The Islam Defenders Front (FPI), a hardliner group that has been under the spotlight recently as its violent image has begun…

Jakarta – Islam Defenders Front (FPI) spokesman Munarman has pointed the finger at the Democratic Party as being behind the recent…

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – While protests demanding the disbandment of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) have been flaring in other cities…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-028-2012

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that Yusli, a 23…

Five Papuan political leaders are on trial for 'treason'. support them by emailing the message to the Indonesian government

Despite…

The UN Security Council will renew UNMIT's mandate following discussions on Timor-Leste on 22 and 23 February in New York. To inform their debate…

Dear friends,

TAPOL has become very concerned about two Papuan political prisoners who are seriously ill. While many of us are working long-…

Index: ASA 21/006/2012

Amnesty International welcomes the acknowledgement by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono that…

Jakarta/Brussels – Despite years of investment in community policing, the Indonesian police remain deeply distrusted by the people they are…

Damien Kingsbury – The various contenders for Timor-Leste's presidency in the 17 March election have begun to try to persuade the voting public…

Ismira Lutfia – Interreligious strife is just media hype, rights abuses in Papua don't go unpunished and the current anticorruption drive is the…

An Islam-based political party has proposed a new draft bill to ban alcohol sales in Indonesia.

"The PPP initiated the draft bill on alcohol…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Artist Bramantyo Prijosusilo's planned street performance that criticizes rampant violence was forcefully aborted…

Arientha Primanita – Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi said on Wednesday that the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front is one violation away from…

Chloe Booker, Jakarta – Local government officials may have accepted bribes from logging, mining and companies in exchange for permission to clear…

Jakarta – In the face of many calls to freeze the activities of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), the hard-line group remained firm that they…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police said on Wednesday that they had detained four men involved in Tuesday afternoon's protest at the…

Surakarta – Responding to a wave of anti-FPI (Islam Defenders Front) rallies, including in Central Kalimantan and Jakarta, the FPI…

Anita Rachman – As they commemorated their day on Wednesday, Indonesian domestic workers said they only wanted two things: for the domestic…

Agus Triyono – Disappointed with the president's vague pledges to "resolve" the plight of GKI Yasmin church, the nation's main Christian…

Sara Schonhardt, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, is often held up as a shining example of how…