AHRC-STM-186-2009

"What we should fear most is the feeling of fear, because the feeling of fear will destroy our judgement, our…

Yogyakarta – Scores of protesters from the National Student League for Democracy-Politics of the Poor (LMND-PRM) held a protest action at the…

Agus Maryono, Purbalingga, Central Java – Hundreds of teachers from various schools across the Central Java town of Purbalingga…

Seven suspects from Timika in Indonesia's Papua are set to face trial over recent shootings near the Grasberg mine run by mining giant…

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – The illegal trade in Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatraensis) and their body parts in Jambi province has gone on…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Rescue workers were frantically sifting through rubble with their hands to find victims of Wednesday's earthquake in…

Surabaya – Hundreds of workers from Surabaya, Sidoarjo, Pasuruan, Mojokerto and Kediri staged a rally Thursday against 10 companies in…

Kuala Lumpur – Indonesia will demand a minimum monthly salary of RM800 for its domestic helpers at a bilateral meeting with Malaysia to be held in…

Markus Makur, Jayapura – The Papua Police Office has handed over to the Timika Prosecutor's Office dossiers of seven people accused of…

Camelia Pasandaran & Anita Rachman – The government found itself in Constitutional Court on Thursday defending its education autonomy law…

Irwin Fedriansyah, Cikangkareng – Rescuers dug through rocks and debris with their bare hands Thursday in search of dozens of villagers believed…

It is difficult not to be suspicious of the latest political maneuvers made by the heirs of the late former president Soeharto.

Their…

Heru Andriyanto – In the face of numerous unresolved human rights violations, the government has no justification to delay ratifying an…

Camelia Pasandaran – The General Elections Commission officially announced the results of the April 9 legislative elections on Wednesday, with…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Senior legislator Theo L Sambuaga has denied suggestions the House of Representatives is secretly working with…

Jakarta – A survey by Indo Barometer says that the people want President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to embrace all political parties in…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – An Indonesian banking scandal set to rival those of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis threatens to undermine the…

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – The Islamist mastermind allegedly behind deadly July suicide bombings in Jakarta is likely hiding out on Indonesia's…

Jakarta – The recent bombings in Jakarta should be a wake-up call for Islamic organizations and clerics to promote noble Islamic values in order…

Ismira Lutfia – What better symbols to present to Muslim-dominated television audiences in this holy month of Ramadan than Arabic cultural icons…

President Jose Ramos-Horta On East Timor, genocide, & why President Clinton is "One of my favorite politicians in the world"

Sabine…

Dili – Indonesia's and Timor Leste's military chiefs agreed here on Thursday to step up cooperation between the two countries' armed forces.

Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – The President of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, has called for the killers of five journalists at Balibo in 1975 to be…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – An announcement which reads "Only non-Muslims allowed" is attached to the door of a food stall in Peunayong, Banda…

The Indonesia Human Rights Committee has written to New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully urging him to ask the Indonesian…

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) is calling for the President to establish an ad-hoc human rights…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Medan District Court sentenced Tuesday a student, a becak (pedicab) driver and a lecturer to prison for their…

Sara Everingham – East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has defended himself against allegations he broke his country's laws by signing a…

Dili – The United Nations condemned Tuesday the reported release of an Indonesian former militia leader accused of taking part in a massacre of…

Dicky Christanto and Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Human rights defenders strongly rejected a proposal to extend the detention of alleged…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesia is considering tough new anti-terror legislation that would enable detention without charge for up to two…

Nivell Rayda – The country's most prominent antigraft watchdog warned on Wednesday that there were at least two provisions in the latest draft of…

Kartika Inggas, Bangkok – Lubna Ahmed Al Hussein is not a household name in Indonesia. Not many people anywhere in the world knew of this female…

Ismira Lutfia – A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener. Nor, apparently, should a prudent television station broadcast the word "goat…

Max Lane – On August 6, Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra, Indonesia's greatest dramatist and most influential poet, died in Jakarta, aged 74. More than a…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra may support his eldest sister Siti Hadiyanti "Tutut" Rukmana as she challenges…

A suspect wanted in connection with hotel suicide bombings in the Indonesian capital infiltrated the national airline in a plot to carry out a "…

Rachmadin Ismail, Jakarta – There has been no significant change in the handling of cases of missing person or human rights violations since…

Rachmadin Ismail, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) visited the Directorate General of Human Rights…

The chief editor of a media group that runs a hardline Islamic Web site said on Monday that the site would reopen after being brought down by…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The government would be accused of abusing human rights if it endorsed a tougher antiterrorism law giving the power for…

Febriamy Hutapea – Never mind differences over culture, Malaysia has at least one thing that the Indonesian government wants to "copy" – its tough…

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Irresponsibility on the part of PT Lapindo Brantas may again cause more misery for the people of Sidoarjo.

The mudflow…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Executive members of political parties in coalition with President-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic…

Max Lane, Jakarta – Watching Jusuf Isak's body wrapped in white linen being passed down to his sons, standing deep in the grave dug in Java's rich…

To Ex. Dr. Longuinos Monteiro,
General Commander of the Timor-Leste National Police

1 September 2009

We, representatives of…

Sam King – The National Network for Women's Liberation (Jaringan Nasional Perempuan Mahardika – JNPM) is an Indonesian women's liberation…

Camelia Pasandaran – The potential power of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party-led coalition in the House of Representatives…

The filmmakers behind the political thriller Balibo have been awarded East Timor's Presidential Medal of Merit in recognition for their…

Jakarta – The Indonesia Military (TNI) says the export of weaponry to the Philippines has been done in accordance with procedural administrative…