Ulma Haryanto – A protest in front of the Corruption Eradication Commission building in South Jakarta turned bloody on Thursday when a self-…

Urgent Appeal Update: AHRC-UAU-041-2011

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The Manokwari district court in West Papua has sentenced two peaceful…

Anita Rachman – Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto was criticized by lawmakers on Thursday for employing "misleading" and "sick" logic in his continued…

Jakarta – After 27 years of tribulations in seeking justice, the victims of the 1984 Tanjung Priok riot have glimpsed a dim light of hope that…

Relatives of Indonesian men and boys murdered by Dutch troops more than 60 years ago flocked back to the scene of the massacre Thursday – this…

Dessy Sagita – The families of the victims of the 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre are renewing their calls for the government to compensate them and…

Indonesian activists on Thursday welcomed an international court's finding that the Dutch state was responsible for a massacre in Indonesia in…

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – A 12-year jail term for graft and an ongoing trial on five counts of criminal charges have failed to convince the…

Anita Rachman & Dessy Sagita – With illegal behavior rampant at the country's jails, reports that a high-profile graft convict hid Rp 4…

Hong Kong – The Asian Development Bank is trimming its forecast for economic growth in developing Asian countries because of worries about weak…

Jakarta – A team of prosecutors say arguments and evidence presented by former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief Antasari Azhar in a…

Thousands of workers at Freeport McMoRan's giant gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia prepared to go on a month-long strike over wages at…

Jakarta – Indonesian delegates brought the case of slain human rights activist Munir Said Thalib into the spotlight at the 6th Dublin…

Jakarta – A group of victims from the 1984 Tanjung Priok tragedy say they will meet members of the Witness and Victim Protection…

Ambon – Calm appeared to have returned to Ambon, Maluku, on Tuesday following two days of widespread rioting in which seven people were killed,…

Singapore – Singapore has offered to send aircraft to help Indonesia put out forest fires that threaten to cast a pall over the city-state's…

Anita Rachman & Arientha Primanita – Not so fast, a Golkar official said on Tuesday following reports party chairman Aburizal Bakrie would…

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – Almost 100,000 people in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province were facing a serious food crisis, an…

Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – London-based rights group Amnesty International has brought under the spotlight the arbitrary and excessive use of…

Farouk Arnaz – Police on Tuesday raised the death toll of Sunday's clash in Ambon to seven.

"According to our latest data at 7 a.m. this…

Nurdin Hassan – An incestuous relationship between a brother and sister in sternly religious Aceh is the newest unconventional relationship to…

Arientha Primanita – The House of Representatives has urged the electoral commission to present data on 21 disputed polling results, including…

Anita Rachman & Arientha Primanita – Despite being picked by his colleagues to run for president in 2014, Golkar Party chairman…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Lawmakers criticized on Monday over accusations that the Health Ministry has yet to allocate sufficient budgets for…

Jakarta – Lawmakers have denied that they are secretly revising the bill governing the nation's intelligence agencies that is currently under…

Jakarta – State Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief Sutanto has refuted a leaked Jakarta United States Embassy diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks…

The dry season in Indonesia has triggered a massive water crisis on many islands, including Java, where thousands of people have been forced to…

Hundreds of security personnel have been sent to the eastern Indonesian island of Ambon after sectarian clashes claimed at least three lives and…

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – The treatment of political economic issues in Indonesia is "uneven, with no evidence of systematic improvement" since at…

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) says bringing the Indonesian Military (TNI) in to Ambon…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Most Indonesians insist on rejecting any form of religiously motivated violence and are worried that recent violent…

Dessy Sagita, Ulma Haryanto & Febriamy Hutapea – If the sudden eruption of mass violence in Ambon over the weekend seemed sudden, it surprised…

The Corruption Eradication Committee (KPK) Ethics Council says graft suspect M. Nazaruddin has committed slander by accusing KPK…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – A number of Friday prayer congregation members forcefully ended a sermon being delivered by a khatib (preacher)…

Jayapura – Mufriadi, a journalist with TOP TV Papua, was reportedly beaten by the South Sorong regent while he was covering a rally…

Jakarta – Golkar Party has come up with a consensus during the national consolidation meeting in Denpasar, Bali, to support party…

Stephen Coates – East Timor's fragile stability will be tested in coming months as the country's political and business elite manoeuvre ahead of…

Vento Saudale – Human Rights Watch visited the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor on Sunday to make first-hand observations of the congregation conducting…

Jakarta – University of Indonesia's Student Executive Body with the Faculty of Economics (BEM FE UI) threatens to hold strike and refuses to go…

Ulma Haryanto – When Ade Pujiati started a learning center, all she wanted was to be able to provide free education for the poor.

"In 2007…

Investing in conflict-affected and high-risk areas is a growing concern for responsible businesses and investors. Often times companies based…

Bengkulu – Bengkulu province's education office is planning to include Koranic reading as part of its elementary school curriculum.

"We will…

Nivell Rayda – In many ways, Jakarta was a bit of a culture shock for Afghan Fatimah (not her real name) when she arrived in 2004.

The high-…

Police in Southeast Sulawesi have arrested 11 suspects after a clash at Kendari's Haluoleo University that killed two students, an officer said on…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Police have named three suspects, including a local councilor, in Friday's attack on a Muslim preacher and have…

Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia has complained to Indonesia about land-clearing fires in the neighboring country that have led to a blanket of pollution…

Jakarta – Members of the executive board of the Islamic Student Association (PB HMI) submitted on Saturday a document detailing the dispute…

Jakarta – Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) coordinator, Haris Azhar, has criticized Attorney General…

Jakarta – Indonesia is set to boost military ties with Germany, France and Spain, deputy defense minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin said in…

Jakarta – Activists from various human rights NGOs urged Attorney General Basrief Arief to challenge a Supreme Court ruling that acquitted the…