The chairman of DAP, the Papuan Traditional Council, has called on the Indonesian government to be more judicious about plans to send…

Jakarta – The Golkar Party said the antigraft body's plan to question opposition leader Megawati Soekarnoputri as a witness in a high-profile…

Dessy Sagita & Camelia Pasandaran – Two weeks after a deadly attack on Ahmadiyah followers in Banten, the Indonesian Council of Ulema has…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Recently increased electoral requirements have led several small parties without seats in the legislature to form…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Great Indonesia Movement Party's ongoing plan to merge with smaller parties may be a ploy to win more votes in 2014…

Hasyim Widhiarto – Political rifts within President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's coalition camp have taken yet another uneasy turn after legislators…

Jakarta – Indonesia's Judicial Commission has urged national flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia to comply with a Supreme Court verdict…

Nivell Rayda & Farouk Arnaz – The Indonesian police's abysmal human rights record took yet another hit on Monday with the revelation that…

Sleman, Yogyakarta – Although three months have passed since the recent devastating eruptions of Indonesia's Mount Merapi, most of the temporary…

Jakarta – The Cianjur Police say they will take firm measures against rioters by implementing a shoot-on-sight policy during ethnic,…

Nivell Rayda & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Former Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri won't honor a summons from the Corruption…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – The Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force announced on Friday it had studied a report implicating up to 12 public…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has accused the nation's antigraft body of facilitating what it claimed to be the…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Great Indonesia Movement Party on Friday added another political party to its alliance, proceeding with its plan of…

Ulma Haryanto – The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by flag carrier Garuda Indonesia and upheld an earlier ruling ordering the airline…

Agus Maryono – The Banyumas Religious Court in Central Java has announced a significant increase in the number of divorce cases in the region, the…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Rizal Adi Syaputra says he is a proud punk, but still prefers to hide his dyed red hair under a cap.

The 20-year-…

Camelia Pasandaran, Mamuju, West Sulawesi – In response to concerns over attacks on minority religious groups, the government is drafting a law…

Ulma Haryanto – The Constitutional Court should now consider the consequences of upholding the 1965 Blasphemy Law, a top human rights watchdog has…

Dessy Sagita & Antara – The Health Ministry revealed on Thursday that a proposed ban on tobacco advertising would only be imposed in stages,…

Elisabeth Oktofani & Ulin Yusron – About 500 people at an anti-Ahmadiyah rally led by the Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI) at the Hotel…

The Supreme Court has rejected national flagship carrier PT Garuda Airlines' appeal in the case of human rights activist Munir Said…

Hamdhoon Rashad, Washington, D.C. – The Amnesty group called on the Indonesian government to release the man they call a prisoner of conscience.…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – Activists have warned that an 86,450-hectare orangutan sanctuary in East Kalimantan is open to illegal logging, thus…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The amount of money inefficiently spent by regional administrations to conduct local elections has led to cuts in…

Zaky Pawas – Police have questioned four security guards from a Bogor hospital after they allegedly dumped a mentally ill man in a field near the…

The Indonesian Council of Ulema says it has no intention of backing down from its position outlined in a 2005 fatwa issued against the Ahmadiyah…

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday inaugurated Budi Susilo Supandji as the new governor of the strategic National Defense…

Working mothers need longer maternity leave, allowing them to exclusively breast-feed their newborn babies for first six months, activists say.…

Rahmat & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Makassar – The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) is threatening to disband Ahmadiyah, regardless of the risks,…

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police on Friday backtracked on earlier comments that a member of the Ahmadiyah sect had been named a…

Adianto P. Simamora and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Despite President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's call for action to stop violent groups,…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – Green activists said on Wednesday that the government's much-hyped plan for a moratorium on new logging concessions…

Farouk Arnaz, Fitri & Antara – The lawyer for two alleged assailants in a bloody attack against the Ahmadiyah in Banten that claimed three…

Ulma Haryanto – Akbar Ramanda, a 17-year-old standing trial for taking part in an October attack against an Ahmadiyah community in Bogor, showed…

Peneas Lokbere, the chairman of SKPHP HAM Papua (Solidarity for the Victims of Human Rights Violations in Papua) has declared that they will…

Imung Yuniardi, Semarang – A lack of regulation has been blamed for the rampant exploitation of domestic workers in Central Java, where over 40…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The government has been told to improve the management of voter lists for the 2014 general elections if it hopes to…

A lawyer in Jayapura, Gustaf Kawer, has called on the police to be transparent and explain what happened to Miron Wetipo, who was…

Arief Johar Cahyadi Permana is not the only Indonesian facing jail time for what seems like a minor offense. Such cases have been reported…

AI Index: ASA 57/001/2011

Amnesty International and the Judicial System Monitoring Programme (JSMP) expressed their disappointment…

Camelia Pasandaran – Vice President Boediono has stressed the need to punish ministries and state institutions that do not carry out the…

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Paying for sex and gambling may already be illegal, but lawmakers supposedly need reminding with a…

Sylviana Hamdani – The sheer audacity with which disgraced former taxman Gayus Tambunan made trips abroad using a fake passport may have shocked…

Putri Fitria, Sleman, Yogyakarta – Arief Johar Cahyadi Permana is at a loss for words. The 24-year-old university student has not been able to…

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Talk of a Cabinet reshuffle to replace underperforming Indonesian ministers is heating up, as the government fends off…

Idries de Vries – The Indonesian Armed Forces recently announced it had accepted a grant of 24 F-16 jet fighters from the United States, and that…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Two former Bank Century officials facing up to 10 years in prison for improper approval of loans claimed on Wednesday…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Dessy Sagita, Amir Tejo & Camelia Pasandaran – The religious affairs minister and the police said on Wednesday that…

Heru Andriyanto & Mohd Adhe Bhakti – The third criminal trial of radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir paints a portrait of the cleric as a man bent…