Jakarta – Community-based organizations can play big role in providing a place for former child laborers, preventing them from returning to the…

Anita Rachman – The ruling Democratic Party has taken a serious hit in public perception after being rocked by graft scandals implicating its…

Jakarta – The Bandar Lampung branch of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has expressed concern that the intelligence bill…

Indonesia has arrested eight terror suspects who were plotting a mass poisoning of police personnel, an anti-terror officer said…

Indonesia and the United states on Friday started a joint military exercise dubbed "Garuda Shield 2011" in Bogor, West Java.

Indonesia's…

Nila Ardhianie, Semarang – Time has passed quickly. The privatization of piped water service in Jakarta will mark its 13th anniversary on June 6…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Heru Andriyanto – A lawmaker who recently irked leaders of the House of Representatives by calling them "budget…

Indra Harsaputra and Hyginus Hardoyo, Surabaya/Jakarta – Cheating in exams constitutes a fraudulent action classified as an achievement that is…

Protestors brought business to a halt in Cikarang, Bekasi, on Friday as demonstrators demanded the passage of a bill that would create a social…

Jakarta – Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Pramono Edhie Wibowo have been touted as presidential candidates from the Democratic Party following the…

A legislator from the Labor Party has requested that a street be named after Indonesia's second president, Soeharto, in Manado, North…

Agus Triyono – In two years time, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will be flying on the Indonesian version of Air Force One.

Finance…

Vento Saudale – At 18 years old, Fitriasih has already been married 11 times in the past eight months, each time to a different Arab man.

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's denial that he was grooming a successor from within his family ahead of the 2014…

Manokwari – Hundreds of people rallied on Friday, under the banner of the West Papua National Authority (WPNA) calling for the release of all…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The dominant security and military approaches to addressing problems in Papua have slowed development and have given…

Jakarta – The newly-established One Republic Party denied rumors of Soeharto family involvement.

Rumors had spread that Tommy Soeharto, the…

Agus Triyono – An internal investigation by the Supreme Court has found no other judges were involved in the bribery scandal that led to the…

The Judicial Commission (KY) has received 1,414 reports of judges violating their professional code of ethics in the past four months…

Lenita Sulthani, Karawang, West Java – Ngadiyo, a farmer in Indonesia's West Java, worries that there won't be anyone to grow rice once he retires…

Lindsay Murdoch – The Timorese-born Australian woman acquitted last year of conspiring to murder East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta, plans…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – The government is considering returning the mechanism in the gubernatorial elections from the current direct system…

Novia D. Rulistia, Jakarta – The Presidential Work Unit for Development Monitoring and Control (UKP4) has given the Jakarta administration a…

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Thursday that he was not grooming anybody for a presidential run in the 2014 general elections.…

Amir Tejo & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Surabaya – Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Toisutta insisted on Thursday that the selection process for…

New York – Indonesia should use its election to the United Nations Human Rights Council to implement reforms on the rights to freedom of…

Dessy Sagita – A string of state institutions agreed on Thursday to tighten regulations and improve standard operating procedures at…

Candra Malik, Semarang – Seventeen of the 25 men charged with rioting that destroyed buildings and injured bystanders in Temanggung, Central Java…

Civil servants in the province are required to wear locally made shoes or face a heavy punishment – 200 push-ups, West Java Governor…

Candra Malik, Solo – The Central Java Police said on Wednesday that officers in the province were being encouraged to find amicable, mediated…

Bagus BT Saragih – On the heels of a series of killings and attacks against police officers across the country, the police force have, once again…

Dili – Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao has asked the inspector general of the state to investigate some members of government for having…

Malang – Suciwati, the widow of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, says she suspects there is a plan to acquit Pollycarpus…

Dili – At the swearing in ceremony for the national director and department head of the State Inspector General, yesterday (8 June),…

Zubaidah Nazeer – Resentment of Singapore's perceived role as a safe haven for law-breaking Indonesians is mounting as the authorities here…

Ismira Lutfia – A legislative bill giving intelligence agents authority to preemptively arrest suspected terrorists is still fiercely debated by…

Ronna Nirmala – Hutomo Mandala Putra, the youngest son of former President Suharto, announced his first foray into the media industry with an…

Jayakarta Regional Military Command on Wednesday announced a plan to clear Taman Lawang, a public park on Jalan Latuharhary in Central…

The Alliance of Churches in the Land of Papua, PGGP, has called on the government to revise the work contract concluded with the mining company,…

Elisabeth Oktofani – The Social Affairs Ministry and the Witness and Victim Protection Agency on Tuesday announced they were teaming up to provide…

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Merdeka Palace
Jakarta, Indonesia

Via facsimile, email

Dear President Yudhoyono,

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Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – The increasing number of bylaws on HIV/AIDS prevention in Indonesia is apparently ineffective at curbing the spread of…

Faisal Maliki Baskoro & Ismira Lutfia – For all the talk of poor infrastructure and rampant corruption holding Indonesia back from its full…

Agus Triyono & Ulma Haryanto – Claiming to have new evidence that could overturn his sentence, the convicted murderer of rights campaigner…

An article from a former employee of the energy company Woodside has labelled their negotiating style "arrogant" and "adversarial", saying it's…

Candra Malik& Hangga Brata – A Central Java official has threatened to shut down two Islamic schools where the principals refuse to hold flag-…

Indonesia's election to the Human Rights Council should be an impetus for rights reform at home. If Indonesia wants to be a global leader on…

Greenpeace on Wednesday accused Mattel, the US maker of Barbie dolls, of contributing to the wanton destruction of carbon-rich Indonesian forests…

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Indonesia's global competitiveness has increased significantly since 2005 but work needs to be done to improve the country…

Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)
PO Box 28, Spit Junction
Sydney, Australia 2088

7 June 2011

Re West Papua and Pacific…