Heru Andriyanto – National Police efforts to make criminal charges stick to two Corruption Eradication Commission deputies were highly…

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has expressed doubts over the House of Representatives…

Nurfika Osman – An official warned on Thursday that child kidnapping cases across the country had risen by an alarming 20 percent as traffickers…

Jakarta – The government must ratify Convention No. 169/1989 on Indigenous and Tribal People, to put an end to frequent conflicts between…

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has denied any links to a plot to frame Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders in criminal…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives and the Ministry of Defense on Wednesday agreed to prioritize the deliberation of bills on…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Febriamy Hutapea – The National Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to…

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Several major regulations issued over the past five years have made the country's natural resources more prone to…

Amir Tejo – Surabaya is famous, or infamous, for having the largest prostitution complex in Southeast Asia, a distinction the local government…

Zal Gibran – Hundreds of university students in Makassar, South Sulawesi, celebrated Youth Pledge Day on Wednesday with protests demanding that…

AHRC-PRL-039-2009

Hong Kong – The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned that after Soeharto's fall there is no…

Jakarta – Activists in London demanded Monday that Indonesian authorities bring to justice those responsible for killing Dutch Financial Times…

Jakarta – Muslim women would be banned from wearing tight pants in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia's Aceh province under proposed…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Wild animal attacks in Aceh, particularly by elephants and Sumatran tigers, are highlighting the worsening conflict…

An Indonesian political activist has received a number of anonymous SMS messages warning him that he will be killed if he leaves his home, Amnesty…

Cunding Levi, Jakarta – Indonesian diplomats stationed in European countries faced a protest by dozens of Papuan students during a…

Jakarta – The National Police has not changed its old violent culture as it has maintained the use of torture to obtain confessions…

AHRC-OLT-030-2009

An Open Letter to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances by the Asian Human Rights…

Yoab Syatfle, a political activist in West Papua, has received repeated death threats. The threats, sent via SMS to his mobile phone, are…

Nurfika Osman – The State Ministry for Women's Empowerment and Child Protection has successfully pushed seven ministries to implement a gender-…

Hotli Simanjuntak and Jon Afrizal, Banda Aceh, Jambi – Deforestation in Aceh has continued to worsen despite the signing of a logging moratorium…

Markus Makur, Timika – Hundreds of employees at PT Freeport Indonesia refused to resume work Monday in protest at the deteriorating security…

Farouk Arnaz, Heru Andriyanto & Camelia Pasandaran – Tensions worsened between the country's prosecutors and police, and the anticorruption…

Anita Rachman – Transportation Minister Freddy Numberi said on Tuesday that pushing for clean toilets at the nation's ports was going to be one of…

Kinanti Pinta Karana – Deputy Attorney General Abdul Hakim Ritonga said he only followed orders and procedure when processing the alleged bribery…

Camelia Pasandaran – A book published on Tuesday paints a picture of widespread corruption and power-sharing agreements between Indonesia's…

Camelia Pasandaran – Undeterred by previous failed efforts to sack the General Elections Commission, lawmakers and officials from the Elections…

A political analyst has labeled a plan to raise the salaries of government ministers as "insensitive." The controversial proposal to raise…

Jakarta – The Development and Financial Comptroller Agency (BPKP) must look into the use of the Defense Ministry's budget to make sure budget…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-143-2009

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) continues to receive reports of…

Aditya Suharmoko, Alfian – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's new administration, backed by the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), is…

Budi Otmansyah – Greenpeace activists will live in the heart of the Kampar forest area in Riau for several weeks to draw attention to the impact…

Agus Maryono, Purwokerto – The presence of more than 5,000 bylaws and draft bylaws is a major hindrance for potential investment in provinces…

Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) says that it aims to build a more business-friendly, open and pluralist image under a new leadership…

Roselyn Ellison – Seventy-six people from the West Papuan community in Manus province will move back to their homeland, as part of the…

Jakarta – The Indonesian and Australian governments have agreed to put their bilateral defense cooperation on a firmer basis and to continue it in…

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang (East Java) – The illegal trade of protected animals remains widespread, despite relevant institutions carrying out…

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Hundreds of victims affected by the mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, have renewed calls for the government to…

Irawaty Wardany – The fanfare of legislative and presidential inauguration ceremonies have already passed, but there remain many flaws in the…

IPI warns Indonesia's commitment to democracy undermined

Barbara Trionfi – Ten years after Dutch Financial Times correspondent Sander…

Baban Gandapurnama, Bandung – Workers from the Preparatory Committee for the Indonesian Labour Movement Union (KP-PPBI) are demanding a minimum…

Iman D. Nugroho, Jakarta – A short afternoon trip that Dandhy Dwi Laksono took recently turned out to be the key to opening a kind of Pandora's…

Carmel Budiardjo, London – As Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono begins his second term as President, it is worth considering the prospects for dialogue to…

Blontank Poer, Surakarta – Bloggers and online community groups have urged lawmakers to scrap an article on libel from the 2008 Information and…

The new Australian Commander of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) in East Timor says there are many signs of progress in the country.…

Jayapura – Around 200 people blocked a road in front of Papua Police Headquarters in Jayapura on Friday, as part of a protest against…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono held on Friday the maiden Cabinet meeting of his second term, consolidating relations…

Sophie Black – The 255 asylum seekers docked at the port in Merak in West Java are still refusing to leave their boat and be processed by…

Markus Makur, Timika – The wives and children of PT Freeport Indonesia employees rallied at the Mimika legislative council office in Papua on…

Farouk Arnaz – National Police have dispatched 150 officers, including antiterror police, to Timika, Papua, to support local officers and the…