A Golkar politician with family links to party chairman Aburizal Bakrie has thrown his hat into the ring for the upcoming gubernatorial elections…

Congress of the United States Washington, DC 20515

August 19, 2011

Dr. H Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
President of the Republic of…

Sara Everingham – East Timor's Council of Ministers has condemned recent violence in the country's south-west that left more than 100…

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia has taken a major step forward in its attempts to trim its bloated, inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy, announcing…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ahmadiyah Congregation (JAI) says it will not seek further legal action against the hard-liners given lenient sentences…

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Andi Hajramurni, Bandung/Makassar – The commemoration of Indonesia's 66th Independence Day on Wednesday was solemnly marked…

Anita Rachman – Judging from the many seats left empty at the House of Representatives on Tuesday, not all lawmakers thought the plenary session…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Fifteen years on, the mystery shrouding the murder of journalist Fuad Muhammad Syafrudin, aka Udin, has yet to be…

Yanto Soegiarto – The summit conference of International Lawyers for West Papua held earlier this month in Oxford, England, should not be regarded…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – A land reclamation project on Jakarta's north coast has led to land disputes, damage to infrastructure and a drop in…

Disgraced Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) lawmaker Muhammad Misbakhun was released from prison on Thursday after receiving a two-month…

Ulma Haryanto – For Firdaus Mubarik, an Indonesian Ahmadiyah activist, Independence Day provides no cause for celebration.

"For me and my…

Peter Ker – The new Woodside Petroleum boss, Peter Coleman, will make a diplomatic mission to East Timor in a bid to revive hopes of building a…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Camelia Pasandaran – The government's announcement of a planned 10 percent pay raise for civil servants next year…

A friend in Dili tells ETAN that police recently broke up a demonstration in support of West Papua. As we get more information, we…

Jakarta – A group of armed men launched attacks in the Papua regency of Paniai as Indonesia celebrated on Wednesday its 66th…

Jakarta – The presidential palace distributed Papua-themed souvenirs during the ceremony to commemorate Indonesia's 66th Independence…

Arientha Primanita – Not all 66th Independence Day celebrations went as smoothly as the official event at the State Palace on Wednesday.

The…

Camelia Pasandaran & Ulma Haryanto – Syamsul Arifin is still officially the governor of North Sumatra despite being sentenced to 30 months in…

Ulma Haryanto& Anita Rachman – He flew to Singapore and Colombia, to meet Muhammad Nazaruddin, but apparently there were still questions on…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A shootout took place in the Tanah Hitam mountain early on Tuesday morning after the banned Morning Star flag was…

Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reinforced on Tuesday the importance of protecting the sovereignty of the Republic of…

A man wounded when Islamic hard-liners launched a deadly attack on his minority sect questioned Indonesia's commitment to religious freedom after…

Dion Bisara & Anita Rachman – Lawmakers have accused the Indonesian president of being blind to today's reality especially in relation to…

A. Lin Neumann – Almost exactly one year ago, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the following on the occasion of Independence Day…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ronna Nirmala – The law enforcement establishment's intense focus on graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin should not…

In light of the leaked Kopassus documents AWPA is calling on the Australian Government to rethink its policy of ties between the Australian…

Banyuwangi – Residents in Banyuwangi have opposed PT Indo Multi Niaga's (PT IMN) mining operation, which they accuse of damaging the…

Dili – Angry mobs of martial arts gang members set fire to dozens of homes Monday as they rampaged through an East Timorese town after…

Jakarta – Six years after the Helsinki peace deal ended the long insurgency of the Aceh Freedom Movement (GAM), activists now say the government…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-142-2011

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Three police officers accused of the murder of journalist Ridwan Salamun…

Jakarta – Pollycarpus Budihari Prijanto, the convicted murderer of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, received a remission of 9…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has yet to fulfill its commitment to realize the Helsinki Agreement in Aceh, a rights group says…

Heru Andriyanto – A senior Amadiyah member was sentenced to six months imprisonment at the Serang District Court on Monday in relation…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – With a few words sent by BlackBerry Messenger in mid-July, Nuril Anwar ended his working relationship as the assistant…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia will give a tax holiday for investors committing at least 1 trillion rupiah ($117 million) into sectors…

We are already in the 21st Century where the global village is the basic premise for international cooperation and enlightenment, and the arena in…

Rahmat, Makassar – Police in the South Sulawesi capital have named the head of the armed wing of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front a suspect…

Nazaruddin terrorized his former political allies and proteges while on the lam with taunts that they were bandits just like him.

After his…

Anita Rachman – Muhammad Nazaruddin's lawyer has expressed concerns for his client's life, since he has not been allowed to meet with the…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Lawmaker Benny Kabur Harman of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party confirmed Monday that he had been…

Anita Rachman, Ulma Haryanto & Vento Saudale – Threats and counter-threats, or at least fears or reports of them, flew back and forth on…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) on Sunday questioned the validity of documents cited in Australian media reports on its…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Fidelis E. Sastriastanti – The military has played down Australian media revelations of a confidential report on…

Leaked military documents show Indonesia is engaged in a vast illegal surveillance operation against ordinary people in the restive eastern region…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Calls have intensified for the Indonesian military to drawdown its extensive operational and surveillance presence in West…

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – After two years with little progress, the government is considering shifting the location of its planned food estate to…

Jerry Omona, Jakarta – The XVII Cenderawasih Military District Command in Papua is still investigating Army Special Forces (Kopassus) documents…

Jakarta – Cases of human rights violations during the conflict in Indonesia's northern-most province of Aceh must be investigated and resolved in…

AI Index: PRE01/400/2011

The Indonesian authorities must act to halt attacks on the country's Ahmadi minority, Amnesty International…