Dessy Sagita – A Constitutional Court judge resigned on Friday, the first on that bench to do so, after an ethics tribunal ruled that he must take…
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February 12, 2011
Jakarta Globe - February 12, 2011
February 11, 2011
Jakarta Post - February 11, 2011
Irawaty Wardany – The city administration may have imposed a ban on the construction of new convenience stores and minimarkets in Jakarta from…
Jakarta Globe - February 11, 2011
Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Farouk Arnaz – With the recent rise in religion-related violence and people seeking ways to curb the worrying trend…
Jakarta Post - February 11, 2011
Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Supreme Court is concerned about the rising number of incidents where angry mobs have intimidated judges and…
Straits Times - February 11, 2011
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – An aggressive drive by Indonesia's banks has succeeded in putting more plastic in their customers' hands, but it seems to…
Jakarta Globe - February 11, 2011
Heru Andriyanto, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Anita Rachman & Farouk Arnaz – While officials and analysts debated the merits of President Susilo…
Jakarta Post - February 11, 2011
Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Unions representing thousands of employees of PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) have demanded that the state-run…
Jakarta Globe - February 11, 2011
Dessy Sagita – The head of Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Friday said calls by the president to disband violent organizations in the wake of…
Jakarta Post - February 11, 2011
Jakarta – Thirty percent of university graduates are unemployed, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar says.
…
Tabloid JUBI - February 11, 2011
The chairman of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in Jayapura, Victor Mambor, has called on the press in Papua to…
Bintang Papua - February 11, 2011
Jayapura – Although Law 21/2001 on Special Autonomy (OTSUS) provides for the establishment of a human rights court in Papua, the fact is that this…
Tabloid JUBI - February 11, 2011
Two Papuans are due to go on trial in Manokwari for raising the 14-star flag. The two men are Melkinus Bleskadit and Dance Bleskadit…
Radio New Zealand International - February 11, 2011
Up to 100 people, arrested by Papua New Guinea police for allegedly illegally crossing the border from Indonesia, have been flown from…
February 10, 2011
Tabloid JUBI - February 10, 2011
The legal aid organisation, LP3BH, has called on Papuans not to agree to be nominated for a seat on the MRP (Papuan People's Assembly…
Jakarta Globe - February 10, 2011
Anita Rachman – Rising politician Puan Maharani of the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) on Wednesday said that although…
Jakarta Post - February 10, 2011
Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Amid concerns that some regional leaders are misusing public money and state facilities to advance their political careers…
Jakarta Post - February 10, 2011
Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The Network for Civil Society Concerned with Sharia (JMSPS) in Aceh has criticized clerics and asked them not to…
International Federation for Human Rights News Release - February 10, 2011
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), an international human rights NGO with 164 member leagues across the world, together with…
The Australian - February 10, 2011
Mark Dodd – East Timor's defence chief has blasted Australia for its tardy response in helping the half-island state develop a patrol boat fleet…
Jakarta Post - February 10, 2011
Hans David Tampobolon, Jakarta – A report listing hundreds of suspicious transactions related to Bank Century has been handed over to police and…
Jakarta Post - February 10, 2011
Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The weak supervision of coal mining firms operating in Kalimantan has caused widespread environmental damage, say…
Jakarta Post - February 10, 2011
Yuli Tri Suwarni and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Bandung/Malang – A group claiming to represent the hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI) in Tasikmalaya…
Reuters - February 10, 2011
Olivia Rondonuwu – The trial of a firebrand Indonesian Islamic cleric on terror charges opened on Thursday and was swiftly adjourned on a…
Jakarta Globe - February 10, 2011
The Indonesia Council of Ulema has made its annual – and regularly ignored – call for Muslims to avoid celebrating Saint Valentine's…
Jakarta Globe - February 10, 2011
Dessy Sagita – The 2008 joint ministerial decree forbidding Ahmadiyah followers from promoting their activities is not to blame for the…
Jakarta Globe - February 10, 2011
Anita Rachman – Deputy House Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso says followers of an Islamic sect deemed heretic by mainstream Indonesian…
Jakarta Globe - February 10, 2011
Ulma Haryanto – In a fresh case of religious friction, some 50 people rallied on Wednesday outside an unfinished church in Bekasi, where a heavy…
Jakarta Post - February 10, 2011
Jakarta – The Islam Defenders Front (FPI) warns it will overthrow President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono from government if he dares…
Jakarta Globe - February 10, 2011
Heru Andriyanto – The South Jakarta District Court was packed with supporters of Abu Bakar Bashir on Wednesday morning ahead of the controversial…
February 9, 2011
Jakarta Globe - February 9, 2011
Ismira Lutfia – An Indonesian Web site modeled as an alternative platform for news reports not picked up by the mainstream media has officially…
Global Post - February 9, 2011
Elaine Pearson – Last July, when the United States lifted its ban on military assistance to Indonesia's elite Special Forces, Kopassus, US Defense…
Jakarta Globe - February 9, 2011
Farouk Arnaz, Eddy Pratama & Heru Andriyanto – Lawyer Adnan Buyung Nasution on Tuesday quit as legal counsel for graft convict Gayus Tambunan…
Jakarta Globe - February 9, 2011
Fidelis E. Satriastanti – The House of Representatives has called for the establishment of an independent commission to tackle illegal logging,…
Antara News - February 9, 2011
In his strongest comments since the killing of three members of an Islamic sect and anti-Christian unrest, Indonesian President Susilo…
East Timor and Indonesia Action Network News Release - February 9, 2011
A coalition of groups in Timor-Leste is urging the United Nations Security Council "to take concrete, effective actions to end impunity for those…
Jakarta Globe - February 9, 2011
Ismira Lutfia – The Information Commission ruled on Tuesday that data on the 17 suspiciously large bank accounts of senior police officers could…
Bintang Papua - February 9, 2011
The chairman of Commission A of the provincial legislative assembly, the DPRP, Ruben Magai, has called on the police chief to stop using political…
Agence France Presse - February 9, 2011
Mobs screaming "God is greatest" as they stone people to death; mobs calling for death to blasphemers and vandalizing churches; mobs beating…
Jakarta Globe - February 9, 2011
Nurfika Osman & Obey Wibinnov Sianipar – From private citizens to organizations both local and international, the growing sense of frustration…
February 8, 2011
Jakarta Globe - February 8, 2011
As the National Human Rights Commission launched a team on Monday to probe the violent attack on the Ahmadiyah community in Banten, police and…
Jakarta Post - February 8, 2011
Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Political dynasties, a growing trend in regional elections in Indonesia, should be curbed, as they undermine democracy…
Asian Human Rights Commission Statement - February 8, 2011
AHRC-STM-028-2011
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urges a full investigation into the killings of at least three followers…
Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal (ANTI) - February 8, 2011
8 February 2011
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Agence France Presse - February 8, 2011
A United States government watchdog called Monday on Indonesia to take action against extremists and reform its laws after a mob beat and stoned…
Jakarta Post - February 8, 2011
Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – The fatal Sunday attack on Ahmadis in Banten has captured the concern of not only local, but also international human…
Jakarta Globe - February 8, 2011
Nurdin Hasan – A group of 18 civil society organizations in Aceh has lashed out at local clerics' interpretation of Shariah, which it says is…
The Australian - February 8, 2011
Peter Alford – Civil and religious rights group have demanded the dismissal of Indonesia's Religious Affairs Minister.
Suryadharma Ali is…
Jakarta Globe - February 8, 2011
Nivell Rayda & Dessy Sagita – Footage of the mob violence and apparent killing of an Ahmadiyah member in Cikeusik, Banten, on Sunday was too…
Jakarta Post Editorial - February 8, 2011
The murder of three Ahmadiyah followers in Banten on Sunday is a concrete example of state-sponsored terrorism against the country's own citizens…
Antara News - February 8, 2011
Jambi – The population of the critically endangered Sumatran tiger – scientific name Panthera tigris Sumatrae – in Jambi province has…