Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Police said on Wednesday that a clash with a small armed group in a gold mine during the weekend was believed to have…

Ismira Lutfia – Attorney General Basrief Arief admitted on Tuesday that a lack of political will was hindering the processing of cases involving…

Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto said the Papua issue would not be discussed at the…

Jakarta – A former prisoner of Salemba penitentiary in Central Jakarta, Syarifudin S. Pane, on Tuesday released a video depicting…

On 22 November, the UN Security Council will have its semi-annual discussion on UNMIT. La'o Hamutuk has written a letter to the Council to bring…

Agus dos Santos, Dili – FRETILIN and PUN MPs have called on the Anti-Corruption Commission (KAK) to investigate the implementation of previous…

Michael Holtz, Papua – Indonesia, hosting President Barack Obama and other world leaders this week, has earned praise for democratic reforms…

Hundreds of members of the Islamic hard-line group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia demonstrated against the imminent arrival in Bali of US…

Novia D. Rulistia, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) recommended on Tuesday that the government set up an investigation team to resolve…

In response to a petition filed by Freedom Now and Hogan Lovells LLP, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has issued its…

A United States government commission has called on US President Barack Obama to speak out against Indonesia's growing religious intolerance when…

Jakarta – As many as 400 Newmont Nusa Tenggara's workers on Wednesday conducted a strike demanding the company clarify over-time…

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged United States President Barack Obama to tackle Indonesia's leaders during his visit this week on issues…

Indonesian police have questioned a researcher who uncovered the alleged torture and killing of orangutans in a palm oil plantation area in East…

Anita Rachman – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie has found himself in a familiar position, back on the defensive over the…

Bandung – The hard-line Islamic Defenders Front is calling for those convicted of corruption to lose either their head or their hands…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Rizky Amelia & Ezra Sihite – A Prosperous Justice Party lawmaker said on Monday that the corruption case against…

Ulma Haryanto – More than 30 people claiming to be from the notorious Islamic Defenders Front besieged an Ahmadiyah mosque in the Jatibening area…

Ulma Haryanto – A draft bill on religious harmony being prepared at the House of Representatives is likely to promote intolerance rather than…

Jakarta – Vigilante groups in Bekasi, West Java, issued a threatening warning to the local Ahmadiyah community on Monday, claiming that the…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has completed a draft of the so-called religious tolerance bill, which observers claim would…

Jakarta – The GKI Yasmin church congregation, which has been deprived of its place of worship after its church was sealed off, says it…

Camelia Pasandaran – An Indonesian politician has responded to allegations that poor quality laws passed by lawmakers were due to corruption and…

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives was back in session on Monday, kind of. With more than 240 lawmakers…

The freedom of religious belief and the right to practice one's faith are protected by our Constitution. Indeed, Indonesia – with its myriad…

Usman Hamid, Jakarta – Indonesia and other Asian countries have for better or worse to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court…

Jakarta – Members of the Center for Orangutan Protection protested in front the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Tuesday demanding…

Barack Obama
President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Via…

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Local business associations have complained about recent demands by workers for wage increases above the proper-living…

President Barack Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500

November 15, 2011

Dear President Obama,

We urge you…

Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – Bowing to pressure from the city administration, which has twice issued a notice of eviction against its national…

Dofa Fasila & Ismira Lutfia – The Jakarta administration's threat to close the Greenpeace office on Monday fizzled after the environmental…

Anita Rachman – The official announcement that Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie will run as the presidential candidate for Indonesia's grand…

Camelia Pasandaran & Rangga Prakoso – The fledgling National Democratic Party vowed on Tuesday to fight any efforts to bar it from the general…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar/Jakarta – Amid growing protests over the government's apparent inability to resolve unrest in Papua, the National Police…

The Obama administration's deepening relationship with Indonesia means being frank about Indonesia's serious human rights challenges. Indonesian…

Karlis Salna – Human rights groups have called for Australia and the United States to use meetings at the East Asia Summit in Bali to press…

Chronology of the Congress

A. Opening of the Third Papuan Congress

The Congress opened on 16 October at 2pm in a…

Jerry Omona, Papua – Thousands of Papuans demonstrated in the Papuan provincial capital of Jayapura today demanding that a referendum or an act of…

Ulma Haryanto & Lisa Siregar – Over the past few weeks, we have been bombarded with survey after survey about public perceptions of corruption…

North Maluku students demonstrated outside the Ternate mayor's office on Monday demanding the resignation of Deputy Mayor Arifin…

Farouk Arnaz – Three more people with links to a high-profile terror suspect have been arrested by the police's Densus 88 counterterrorism unit,…

Dessy Sagita – Thirteen years after at least 12 university students and other civilians were killed by security forces in a demonstration at the…

Jakarta – Members of the Taman Yasmin Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) congregation were again prevented from holding mass as police officers and…

Human rights organization Setara Institute has urged the House of Representatives to cancel a bill that aims to boost tolerance in the…

A new survey says villagers on the Indonesian side of Borneo killed at least 750 endangered orangutans over a yearlong period, some to…

Anita Rachman – The country's second-largest Islamic group has thrown its full weight behind efforts to rid Indonesia of its heavy smoking habit…

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and several Papuan civil society groups have protested against…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The United States needs to get its own house in order before it can criticize Indonesia on rights abuses, a lawmaker…

Jakarta – A politician asks the central government to grant Papuan people requests as long as the easternmost island stays within the…