Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Australia has invited Indonesia's special forces Kopassus to join a two-week counterterrorism exercise next year, a move…

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Deddy Prihambudi, the chairman of the Surabaya Legal Aid Institute, who usually speaks in an explosive manner, was, for a…

Rusman, Balikpapan – Illegal logging on Borneo along the Indonesia-Malaysia border has increased in recent years, leading to rapid deforestation,…

Arin Widiyanti, Jakarta – Concerned about their livelihoods that are being ground down by the advanced countries, though policies being driven by…

Havana – Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, Mari Bim Amude Alkatiri, praised Cuba's development and breakthroughs in its…

Jakarta – The National Police have announced the largest-ever reshuffle under chief Gen. Sutanto, which an analyst claims kick-starts a new…

Jakarta – The Islamic-oriented Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has claimed it senses a conspiracy to alienate it from the coalition that supports…

In an open letter to East Timorese President Josi Alexandre Gusmco, Human Rights First congratulated the Timorese leadership and called for the…

We are shocked and disappointed by the Australia-Indonesia Institute's (AII's) last-minute withdrawal of support for this year's Jakarta…

Jakarta – Indonesia welcomed Australia's decision Sunday to resume ties with its elite commando unit to help fight terrorism, but human rights…

Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) foresees stronger coordination between the fiscal and monetary authorities in navigating Indonesia…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The demands for Aceh's partition should not be a priority for immediate discussion so as to avoid shifting the focus of…

Eva C. Komandjaja and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta/Malang – In an effort to fight terrorism and other crimes, the government would fingerprint…

Olivia Ward – West Papua is one of the world's most obscure territories, a rain-forested land that is little known except for its exotic beauty.…

Jayapura/Jakarta – Stunned by reports of famine in a remote Papua district that has left 55 people dead, the government dispatched a military…

Adirito de Jesus Soares, Dili – This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, with the people of East Timor…

As the world community prepared to commemorate International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10, human rights activist Todung Mulya Lubis shared on…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Freedom of association is not being upheld in many workplaces here in spite of the seven-year reform movement, a…

Sonny Inbaraj, Dili – Cecelia Soares' eyes glaze over, each time she remembers the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Thirty years ago, on Dec. 7…

Sian Powell, Jakarta – Australia has left organisers of an Indonesian film festival in the lurch on the eve of its opening by withdrawing funding…

Cirebon – An NGO activist lashed out on Friday at new minimum wage set up by the local administration, saying that it was well below…

Human rights have become part of the daily vocabulary of people at all levels of society. However, it is obvious that not everyone, including the…

Tb. Arie Rukmantara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has urged the government to address environmental problems from a…

Anna Piekarski – Yan Christian Warinussy is a wanted man. Not because he has committed a crime, but because he is trying to protect the law.

Tiarma Siboro and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – If responded to by the government, the demands for Aceh's partition into three provinces…

Tb. Arie Rukmantara, Jakarta – All Indonesians will soon enjoy equal opportunities as regards employment recruitment and placement, and in the…

East Timor's Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri, has announced (on Friday 9 December, 2005) that a resource sharing agreement has been reached between…

Adam Gartrell – The sister of one of the Balibo Five journalists, shot dead in East Timor 30 years ago, wants former prime minister Gough Whitlam…

Dili – East Timor and Australia will sign a deal on Jan. 12 to share billions of dollars in revenues from disputed oil and gas reserves beneath…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The government defended its plan to fingerprint all students of Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) as part of…

Machhendra Setyo Atmaja, Jakarta – A sentence of life imprisonment for Pollycarpus Budihari Prijanto is unsatisfactory as he is only a scapegoat.…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono swore in six economic ministers on Wednesday,…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – More than 300 pedicab drivers staged a protest on Wednesday outside the Bandung municipal council building here,…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – An alliance of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) launched on Wednesday a national movement to fight corruption…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The government and lawmakers are listening to demands for the partition of Aceh into three provinces, even…

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Eva C. Komandjaja, Bandung/Jakarta – The crackdown on terrorism conducted by an elite police unit has resulted in numerous…

Serang – High Commissioner Badrodin Haiti, the Banten Chief of Police, regrets the lack of participation by members of the general…

Dili – About 300 East Timorese called for an international tribunal to try soldiers accused of human rights violations as they marked the 30th…

Sian Powell, Jakarta – Exactly 30 years after Indonesia sent a major invasion force into East Timor, the tiny half-island has come full circle in…

Delivering justice for Timor: 31 years and still counting

We continue to remember the Indonesian invasion and illegal annexation of…

Keith Suter – Thirty years ago, one of last century's most brutal conflicts began when Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese colony of East…

Carmela Baranowska – Thirty years ago today, on 7 December 1975, nine US-supplied C-130 aircraft took off from Madiun in East Java, under the…

Amy Goodman: We're going to turn first to a documentary I did in 1992. It was a year after the Santa Cruz massacre, in which the Indonesian…

Jakarta – Every workday morning, a small but expanding community in the traffic-clogged megacity of Jakarta brave fume-belching buses,…

Shawn Donnan, Jakarta – Saturday nights in Banda Aceh for years meant ducking off the streets to avoid curfews, enforced by soldiers and…

Banda Aceh – The Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Board (BRR) of Aceh and Nias has received 206 complaints from the public, non-…

Jayapura – After a racial dispute delayed the process, the Papua General Election Commission (KPUD) officially named on Tuesday five…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Breaking a long-held tradition of secrecy, the Indonesian Military disclosed on Tuesday that 48 of its soldiers in…

James Dunn – The 30th anniversary of the invasion of Dili by a large Indonesian force, is a time for sober reflection in Australia as well as in…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla was not feeling well, according to his aides, but his face was wreathed in smiles as…