Urgent Appeal Update: AHRC-UAU-049-2011

Dear friends,

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

Zaky Pawas – Several police officers were injured and 10 students from Bung Karno University were arrested after an antigovernment rally in…

Jakarta – Ten students from Bung Karno University remain in detention at Jakarta Police headquarters on Thursday after a rally turned…

People in over 80 countries in every region of the world have come together to demand the release of Indonesian prisoner of conscience Filep Karma…

Rangga Prakoso – People who blow the whistle on crime will get sweeping new protections after the nation's key law enforcement bodies signed an…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Dozens of residents of Mesuji Regency in Lampung expressed their grievance before the House of Representatives on…

Jakarta – Police contributed to the mass killing in Mesuji, Lampung according to the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (…

Banjir Ambarita – The Free Papua Organization says 14 of its members died when the police raided one of its sites in the district of Paniai on…

Anti-graft organization Indonesian Corruption Watch will report the subsidiary of US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan to the US…

Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia workers have finally agreed to end their strike after the copper and gold mining giant decided to increase their…

Arientha Primanita, Ezra Sihite, Anita Rachman & Farouk Arnaz – The government moved quickly on Thursday to address the shocking allegations…

Ambon, Maluku – A flare-up of violence in the restive city of Ambon on Monday night left dozens of people injured and several homes badly damaged…

Ami Afriatni – Almost a month has passed since Palembang hosted the closing ceremony of the Southeast Asian Games but the organizers still have a…

Jakarta – Only 10 percent of the nation's local languages will survive by the end of the century, according to a researcher.

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Catherine Wilson, Sydney – The Indonesian government's offer of development for West Papua, following the crackdown by security forces on a pro-…

Carmel Budiardjo – According to Djoko Suyanto, the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, there are no political…

Ismoko Widjaya – PT Silva Inhutani, a company that was mentioned in land takeover case that resulted in 30 farmers died in Lampung, has denied…

Ezra Sihite – Hundreds of members of the Anak Dalam tribe have rallied outside the House of Representatives in a second day of protests to demand…

Ezra Sihite, Arientha Primanita & Anita Rachman – Lawmakers were aghast on Wednesday as a group of farmers from Lampung told them about the…

Yayat Supriatna – Indonesia is concerned about domestic white sugar supplies between March and May next year when current stocks of 740,000 tons…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Deputy mayor Illiza Sa'aduddin Djamal says she doesn't mind getting her hands dirty in her crusade against the punk…

Nurdin Hasan – Indonesian sharia police are "morally rehabilitating" more than 60 young punk rock fans in Aceh province on Sumatra island, saying…

Jakarta – The Free Papua Movement (OPM) has said that it is waiting for instructions to strike back after claiming that three of its…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura, Papua – Papuan police have lifted the Indonesian flag, replacing the Morning Star flag, at an office believed to be the…

Banjir Ambarita – It has been revealed that the officer who died after setting himself and part of a police dormitory in Serui, Yappen…

Apriadi Gunawan and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Medan/Bandung – North Sumatra has been ranked second after Jakarta in terms of the highest number of human…

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A group of maids and activists has vowed to camp out in front of the legislative building in…

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Aceh may soon lose part of its forests with the granting of a concession for commercial use to a private company…

Rizky Amelia, Farouk Arnaz & Ezra Sihite – Sidestepping questions about the nature of an allegedly inappropriate "close personal relationship…

Ulma Haryanto – After dying from burns sustained when he set himself on fire in an apparent protest at the Presidential Palace, Sondang Hutabarat…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A soldier from the Indonesian Military (TNI) and personnel from the North Sumatran police are reported to have been…

The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) is calling for the independence of West Papua and her people from Indonesia.

In a…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Dozens of young people were being held and punished by Aceh police on Tuesday for the supposed crime of being "punk,"…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – About a thousand police officers, out of 13,000, in Aceh were identified as drug users, Aceh police chief Ins. Gen.…

A three-month labour strike at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Grasberg mine in Indonesia looks to be nearing the endgame, after sources…

A group of election watchdogs has called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to revoke the newly established election team…

Hasyim Widhiarto, Bandung/Surabaya/Malang – Three state-owned companies in the defense industry are running low on manpower as budget constraints…

Anita Rachman & Rizky Amelia – In his first comments since the arrest of his wife, graft suspect Nunun Nurbaetie, politician and former police…

Anita Rachman – Because they felt their stories had to be told properly, 11 women who have lived through some of the worst periods in the nation's…

Jakarta – Human rights groups have given President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration poor marks with regard to its commitment…

Ramadhian Fadillah, Jakarta – Justice and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin says that during the era of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (…

Although during his 2009 election campaign President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged to uphold human rights, the reality over the two years of…

The central government is proposing an alternative solution to end the GKI Taman Yasmin church-closure case by offering the church…

New resolutions on Papua by the Australian Labor Party have been described as a shift in discourse in Canberra on issues around…

Strikers at PT Freeport Indonesia in Papua say they will remain on strike into 2012 if no agreement can be reached with management on…

Jakarta – The National Mandate Party (PAN) on Sunday officially announced its leader, Hatta Rajasa, as its presidential candidate for the 2014…

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – Tony Wenas, the vice chairman of the Indonesian Mining Association, said on Sunday that he was worried a union decision…

Arientha Primanita – Coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs Djoko Suyanto on Monday denied that there are political…

Gorontalo – The Indonesian Military says it will shift strategy and deploy troops from Java to areas near the nation's borders as part…

It has now been four months since workers at Freeport-McMoRan's Grasberg mine in Papua decided to strike, demanding higher pay. Despite the…