Nivell Rayda, Farouk Arnaz & Heru Andriyanto – Though heads began rolling early on Thursday from the fallout of the Corruption Eradication…

Farouk Arnaz – After weeks of insisting they had evidence against Corruption Eradication Commission officials, the National Police late on…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A discussion warns Friday that people's anger towards injustice holds more hazards to the livelihood…

Jakarta – A combination of a presidential order, mounting public pressure and a demand from a team of credible national figures, could only force…

Jakarta – A recent survey by the AGB Nielsen Media Research has disclosed that the live-airing of the voice recording of an alleged plot to…

East Timor says it will seek compensation from Australia if its waters or shores are polluted by a leaking oil rig.

The West Atlas Rig…

Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Instead of cooling down the long-running conflict between the Corruption Eradication Commission…

Bachtiar Effendy, Jakarta – It seems almost natural that the Aceh legislature has passed a bill on adultery based on Islamic sharia – which…

Banda Aceh – Officials say a German working for the Red Cross has been shot by men on a motorcycle in Indonesia's Aceh province.

Camelia Pasandaran – Fourteen civil society groups on Thursday condemned Aceh's stoning bylaw, the Qanun Jinayat code, saying that most Acehnese…

Ref: TG ASA 21/2009/45. AI Index: ASA 21/022/2009

Dr Benny Kabur Harman
Chair, Parliamentary Commission III
House of People's…

The tape recordings played publicly by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Tuesday at the order of the Constitutional Court sent a…

Nivell Rayda – Despite the release of two antigraft deputy commissioners from police detention, students from various universities…

The number of Facebook users supporting antigraft officials Chandra M Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto reached more than 837,000 people…

Ref: TG ASA 21/2009/44. AI Index: ASA 21/021/2009

Gamawan Fauzi
Home Affairs Minister
Jl. Medan Merdeka Utara No. 7.
Jakarta…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Legislators have seemingly ignored the content of recordings revealing an alleged plot by graft suspects, police…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Legal experts believe an article in the 2002 Corruption Eradication Commission Law violates the principle of the…

Lindsay Murdoch – Maternus Bere, a Timorese-born Indonesian citizen accused of crimes against humanity, was ushered secretly across the border…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The public Tuesday was glued to televisions and radios, listening to a live recording of wiretapped conversations…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – A large contributor to Indonesia's economy, manufacturing industry, had relatively stagnant growth this year, the…

Jayapura – The Papuan Traditional Council (DAP), the Human Rights and Violence Foundation (Yahamak), and the Association of…

Farouk Arnaz, Nivell Rayda & Putri Prameshwari – After two Corruption Eradication Commision (KPK) leaders were released from police custody,…

Ismira Lutfia, Muninggar Sri Saraswati & Putri Prameshwari – The public will demand that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono personally take…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Thousands of people across the country Tuesday continued to stage rallies to express support for the…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-148-2009

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two…

Febriamy Hutapea – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's bulky coalition in the House of Representatives was being blamed for the soft stance of…

AI Index: ASA 21/020/2009

Reports emerged today that Maternus Bere, an indicted militia leader charged with crimes against humanity,…

Nivell Rayda – Indonesia's Witness and Victim Protection Agency is the latest law enforcement agency to be dragged into the Corruption Eradication…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Frustrated by procrastination and inaction by the government, traditional farmers and fishermen have acted to adapt…

Teguh Prasetyo & Aditya Wikrama – Indonesia's competition regulator on Tuesday ruled that the Indonesian subsidiary of French retail giant…

Arientha Primanita – Hundreds of students of Arastamar Theological College protested in front of the City Hall on Monday demanding the city…

Tom Allard, Tanjung Pinang (Indonesia) – The Indonesian Government is deeply unhappy with the notion of an "Indonesian solution" to the asylum…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Three groups in South Sulawesi staged protests on Tuesday to support the Corruption Eradication Commission…

Nurfika Osman – Activists on Tuesday called for the government to pay more attention to the health needs of the country's migrant workers, saying…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The battle between the police and the Attorney General's Office on one side against the Corruption Eradication…

Candra Malik, Solo – Noordin M Top is dead, but the feared Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist network is not, experts gathered here said on Tuesday.

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – About 30 NGO activists, university and high school students in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, staged a rally Tuesday to…

Bandung – Hundreds of quake victims from Pengalengan, Bandung regency, occupied the regency legislative building on Monday to demand…

Nivell Rayda, Camelia Pasandaran, April Aswadi, Heru Andrianto & Farouk Arnaz – The live broadcast on Tuesday of incriminating wiretapped…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Eleven years have passed since thousands of people roamed the country's streets while chanting the revolution cry: "…

Mark Dodd – An audit of East Timor's public finances by Darwin-based accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has uncovered $189…

The arrogance of power is something we did not expect to see in a democratic setting like today's Indonesia. Having gone through 32 years of…

Ardian Wibisono – Indonesia's strong domestic fundamentals should allow its economy to remain strong despite the prospects for a more sluggish…

Jakarta – Bank Mandiri, the country's largest bank by assets, claims its outlook is positive despite more than Rp 3 trillion (US$313 million) in…

Anita Rachman – At least 590,000 contract teachers working in state schools across the nation will not receive any guarantee of being awarded…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Pro-polygamy groups are now not only facing protest from angry housewives and women's rights activists; a new…

Anita Rachman – A number of men have formed a group to counter the controversial launch of a local branch of a Malaysia-based "polygamy club" in…

Anita Rachman – As 90,000 families struggle to rebuild their lives in West Sumatra after a powerful 7.9-magnitude quake rocked the area on Sept.…

Jakarta – Labor rights activists urged the government to be more proactive in protecting Indonesian migrant workers that have fallen victim to…

UA: 292/09 Index: ASA 21/018/2009

An estimated 900 students from a Christian college in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, are facing…