Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-100-2010

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that an anti…

Papua is in a state of heightened tension following a series of events that culminated in a mass rally yesterday by thousands of Papuans at the…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – A quarter of 45 ministries and state institutions have been given "red marks" for failure to implement dozens of national…

Farouk Arnaz – Indonesian celebrities Luna Maya and Cut Tari have been named suspects for their alleged starring roles in the…

Sydney – Australia's new prime minister Julia Gillard on Friday talked up her plan for a regional refugee centre to tackle people smuggling but…

Camelia Pasandaran & Dessy Sagita – Thursday's brutal attack on an antigraft campaigner has sparked more public outrage, coming hot on the…

Nurfika Osman – Two mothers who were left no option but to sell their newborns to pay hospital bills could have avoided their plight had they been…

Stephen Coates – The wife of an Australian reporter allegedly killed by Indonesian forces in East Timor in 1975 told a Jakarta court on Thursday…

A prominent Papuan activist jailed for raising an outlawed separatist flag has been released after Indonesia granted him a pardon, an official…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is coming under increasing pressure to form an independent team to investigate…

Slamet Susanto and Sri Wahyuni, Jakarta – Sirajuddin Syamsuddin, known widely as Din Syamsuddin, vowed to maintain neutrality in practical…

Nivell Rayda & Dessy Sagita – Indonesia Corruption Watch investigator Tama Satrya Langkun, who was badly beaten by group of men Thursday…

Jayapura – Thousands of Papuans rallied on Thursday to urge the provincial legislature to demand a referendum on self-determination, and reject…

Explosive gifts of three Molotov cocktails were thrown at 3 a.m. Tuesday at the office of Tempo magazine in Central Jakarta, immediately leading…

Anita Rachman – Aisyiyah, the women's wing of Muhammadiyah, the country's second-largest Islamic organization, has backed a controversial…

Nurdin Hasan – Public order officers readying to demolish illegal structures in Aceh's provincial capital were lucky to escape with their lives…

Ismira Lutfia – Tempo magazine and the National Police have agreed to settle their rift amicably, although the magazine has stood by its use of…

Sunanda Creagh – A review of Indonesia's strict labor laws could be completed in one or two years, an official from the Manpower Ministry said on…

Putri Prameshwari – Amid endless pressure from activists for the government to formulate a law to protect the rights of domestic workers in…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Former National Police chief detective and major judicial mafia whistleblower Comr. Gen. Susno Duadji will stand trial…

Jayapura, the Baliem valley and Timika – The next trick is to find a way out of Wamena. The only airline with seats available is a company whose…

Damien Kingsbury – A few years ago, a Burmese couple on the run from that country's brutal military regime sought asylum in Australia. They had…

Damien Kingsbury – The announcement by the Gillard government that it intends to use East Timor as a processing stop-over for asylum seekers is…

Amnesty International has welcomed the release of an Indonesian prisoner of conscience jailed for his role in a peaceful flag-raising protest.…

1. June 9-10 2010 open forum convened by the MRP and Traditional Papuan people. Consensus reached that Otsus has "totally failed".

2. 15…

Sara Everingham, Dili – Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plan to send asylum seekers to a regional processing centre in East Timor is running into…

Dili, East Timor – East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao said Thursday his government was open to discussing Australia's proposal to process…

Armando Siahaan – Attempts by smaller parties to form confederations in an effort to consolidate power ahead of the 2014 general elections could…

Rohan Sullivan, Sydney – East Timor's president said Wednesday he supports in principle an Australian plan to turn his country into a regional…

Hamish McDonald, Asia-Pacific editor – The East Timorese President, Jose Ramos-Horta, is "sympathetic" to the Australian Prime Minister's request…

Stephen Fitzpatrick in Jakarta and Paul Cleary – East Timor MP Jose Teixeira was thoroughly perplexed yesterday by Julia Gillard's announcement of…

Anita Rachman – Din Syamsuddin has been re-elected chairman of the nation's second largest Islamic organization, Muhammadiyah, for…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – It came as a shock to Thai environmental activist Chariya Senpong, that one of her first tastes of Indonesian…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Families of victims of past human rights violations on Wednesday sought the assistance of the country's largest Islamic…

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – An authority to adjudicate constitutional complaints will open the Constitutional Court's door for those wanting…

Police are continuing to flip-flop over the Peterporn scandal, reversing an earlier position that eight people had been arrested for…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie has called on officials to refrain from using police motorcades while the…

Palembang, South Sumatra – An attack Sunday night on the Muaraenim police station by members of the military was due to a…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-097-2010

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a…

Hasyim Widhiarto and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Unidentified assailants attacked the head-quarters of Tempo magazine early Tuesday in an incident…

The wife of an Australian reporter allegedly killed by Indonesian forces in East Timor in 1975 said on Wednesday that she trusted the Indonesian…

Meagan Weymes – East Timor's voters went to the polls Saturday in parliamentary elections seen as a key test for the young and fragile democracy…

Aubrey Belford – The environmental group Greenpeace has accused one of the world's largest pulp, paper and palm oil companies of aggressively…

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – Fifteen Greenpeace members were detained for questioning after police dispersed their campaign in Cirebon, West Java, on…

Anita Rachman – Muhammadiyah, the country's second-biggest Islamic organization, says it will remain involved in politics as long as public…

Anita Rachman – The executive board of Muhammadiyah must take into account the aspirations of its female members, the former general chairman of…

Dessy Sagita – A complete lack of faith in the health care system and threadbare promotions of the country's hospitals that offer international-…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Edward Aritonang said Tuesday the culprits who threw two molotov…

Condemnation of the Molotov bomb attack on the editorial offices of Tempo magazine in Central Jakarta has been swift.

Alliance of…

Tari Rusbianti, Shafiq Pontoh and Sarah Reiter – You may be surprised to find that Indonesia recently became the number one user of Facebook…