Anita Rachman – Having passed no legislation since being inaugurated in October, the House of Representatives has scaled back its ambitious goal…

Mataram – Violence triggered by constant rolling blackouts have prompted the authority of state-owned electricity company PT PLN in…

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Tanah Abang Police sub-precinct chief Comr. Hendra Gunawan promised to investigate the case of a journalist, who on…

Eny Wulandari, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration must work quickly to build a credible public transportation network if it is to curb the…

Allard, West Aceh – As conflict between villagers and the endangered Sumatran tiger becomes increasingly common, Acehnese authorities have turned…

Green groups blasted the government on Friday for failing to seriously consider and take action on the lives ruined as a result of Lusi, the…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has urged for a quick legal settlement of the Bank Century bailout case…

Jakarta – National Police detectives have launched an investigation into dozens of companies for allegedly bribing junior tax officer…

Dewi Kurniawati – Yuli Rahmawati stepped into Indonesia's political ring for the first time last month. Given that she is better known as sex…

A project to create a large agricultural estate in Merauke in Indonesia's Papua province may still to go ahead despite the President…

Baudoin Koenig, a French independent TV documentary maker due to be expelled from Indonesia has today been allowed to stay in the country. However…

Nurfika Osman – Little good has come of the special autonomy status conferred on Papua in 2001 with most people there left behind by the nation's…

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar (Bali) – What a difference a quarter makes. United States President Barack Obama, who spent two years in Indonesia as…

Jakarta – Indonesia's minority and religious groups remain vulnerable to violence and discrimination, says an Amnesty International report…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Former finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati can leave the country for the US with ease as the Attorney General'…

Abe Silangit & Fidelis E. Satriastanti, Oslo – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced on Wednesday that Indonesia would stop issuing new…

East Timor's prime minister said an Australian consortium is trying to steal his country's natural resources from a gas field it's developing in…

Armando Siahaan – Sri Mulyani Indrawati left Indonesia to take up her new post at the World Bank on Wednesday leaving behind words of caution for…

Tom Allard, West Aceh – "Let me ask you a question," says the regent of West Aceh, Ramli Mansur, leaning back in his chair in his spacious office…

Jakarta – A member of the Regional House of Representatives (DPD) fully supports a plan for the creation of Central Papua as a new…

Kinanti Pinta Karana – On the same day the nation's largest car and motorcycle dealer predicted record sales, a scientist warned that the only way…

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – Can a nation protect its own children if so many of them are unaware of their own rights?

In 1990, Indonesia…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papuan independence from the Republic of Indonesia remains a hot topic among Papuans, with many still struggling…

Erwida Maulia and Nethy Darma Somba, Jakarta/Papua – When French journalist and lecturer Baudouin Koenig and his student Carole Lorthiois arrived…

A journalist was badly wounded after his head was beaten with a bottle by a member of Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) in Petamburan,…

Dessy Sagita & Zaky Pawas – As the National Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday told police to investigate hard-liners from the Islamic…

Nurdin Hasan – If you are a Muslim woman who likes wearing tight jeans or miniskirts, then the West Aceh district may not be the place for you.…

Markus Makur, Paniai (Papua) – The move to involve women in community development has gained momentum in Painai regency, Papua, with a training…

Ismira Lutfia – Press advocacy groups are pushing for a public trial for a military officer accused of beating up an Acehnese journalist, despite…

Jakarta – A French journalist who was recently deported after filming a rally in Jayapura, Papua, is questioning his expulsion by Indonesian…

Amir Tejo, Mojokerto (East Java) – Activists involved in a protest last week in Mojokerto, East Java, claim that the organized mob that turned the…

Urgent Appeal Update: AHRC-UAU-022-2010

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a man who was…

Heru Andriyanto – Lawyers and Muslim groups went to the National Commission for Human Rights on Wednesday to lodge complaints about abuses in the…

Arti Ekawati – Red tape, conflicting regulations and legal uncertainties keep US companies from investing in clean-energy projects in Indonesia…

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang, East Java – Deforestation on the slopes of Mt. Arjuna in Pasuruan regency has reached alarming levels and private…

Perth – Australia's Woodside Petroleum has not successfully lodged a proposal to East Timor's government to develop the Sunrise gas project using…

James Paton – East Timor's petroleum regulator has refused to accept Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s plan to develop the Sunrise gas project, insisting…

Armando Siahaan – If you go by her most recent statements, Sri Mulyani Indrawati clearly fingered the Golkar Party and its chairman, businessman…

Former Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati believes democratic reforms in Indonesia are being "hijacked" by powerful reactionary…

Indonesia's powerful provincial governors will soon undergo regular performance reviews as part of the government's push for bureaucratic reforms…

Armando Siahaan – The House of Representatives' household affairs committee on Tuesday vehemently refuted allegations by a budgetary watchdog that…

Jakarta – The Judicial Mafia Taskforce says the lack of protection for whistle-blowers involved in cases they expose, is one core problem…

Nivell Rayda & Nurfika Osman – The Witness and Victim Protection Agency on Monday said it would protect whistle-blower Comr. Gen. Susno Duadji…

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – A special committee tasked with selecting a chairman for the antigraft body officially opened registration for…

Amir Tejo, Dessy Sagita & Anita Rachman – Transvestites on Monday lambasted a religious ruling banning them from cutting or styling Muslim…

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Activists rejected a government's plan to centralize the collection and management of alms or zakat, arguing the…

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia's population is continuing to grow rapidly, expanding by 30 million in the past decade, preliminary results of the…

Ade Mardiyati – After the devastating tsunami in 2004, Aceh – then in the midst of an armed rebellion – entered a new era. The bloodshed was ended…

Nurfika Osman – Calling on the government to listen to the cries of children across the country, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations on…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – An East Aceh district councillor was hospitalized after an angry mob that suspected him of committing adultery attacked…