Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Unidentified gunmen fired at a patrol car owned by PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) in Tembagapura, Mimika regency,…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – A member of the Papua Police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob), Brig. Firman, was shot and killed by unidentified…

Michael Rose – Laying bare the greed for petroleum resources that has steered five decades of Australian policy regarding East Timor, Kim McGrath'…

Lalu Rahadian, Jakarta – Vertical and horizontal conflicts in Papua province will not be resolved until the Indonesian government provides the…

Erin Cook, Jakarta – Indonesia's House of Representatives speaker and Golkar Party chairman Setya Novanto has managed once again to dodge…

Buni Yani, the university lecturer who played a crucial part in Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's imprisonment for blasphemy and his defeat in the…

Royson Willie – A West Papuan leader in Vanuatu, Mr Andy Ayamiseba, has publicly on his facebook called for armed resistance in West Papua with…

Sam Wanda, Timika – The Indonesian unit of Freeport-McMoRan Inc closed the main access road to its giant copper mine in the eastern province of…

Jakarta – Bukit Duri residents who won a class-action lawsuit against the Jakarta administration for evicting them from their homes in early 2016…

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan plans to revise the prevailing governor regulation that bans people from holding religious ceremonies at…

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration invited ulema and other religious leaders to City Hall on Tuesday to express its commitment to reduce social…

Besides the politicized accusation of blasphemy against former Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, many said the capital's previous…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) has called on the government to stop issuing licenses for hotel construction…

M Yusuf Manurung, Jakarta – The Central Jakarta municipal government today demolished illegal dwellings in the vicinity of the Western Flood Canal…

Jayapura – The Papua provincial government has explicitly refuted a statement by the Papua regional police chief that residents have been taken…

Bambang Hari, Jakarta – An employee at the PT Freeport Indonesia gold-and-copper mine in West Papua, Aser Gobai has refuted information that a PT…

An Indonesian human rights lawyer says there is no hostage crisis in the Mimika regency of Papua province as claimed by police and government…

Fergus Jensen, Jakarta – The Indonesian unit of Freeport-McMoRan Inc has reopened the main supply route to its huge copper mine in Papua, the…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Monday that the antigraft body did not need written permission from President Joko "…

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Jakarta Corruption Court judges sentenced former House of Representatives lawmaker Miryam S. Haryani to five years in…

An Indonesian visual effects museum that encouraged visitors to take selfies with a waxwork of Hitler against a giant image of the Auschwitz death…

Free Papua Organisation (OPM) spokesperson Sebby Sambon denies that his group has acted in a criminal manner by taking hundreds of local people…

Jakarta – Authorities in Indonesia's eastern province of Papua are delivering food and aid to villages where security forces say an armed rebel…

Jakarta – Two suspected militants were shot dead on Sunday morning after allegedly setting fire to the main building of the Dharmasraya Police…

Amilia Rosa and Jewel Topsfield, Timika, Papua – A community leader from one of the villages caught up in a conflict inside Papua's giant mining…

Kyodo News – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will convene a meeting of senior officials next month to discuss admitting East Timor as a…

Jakarta – Chairman of the House of Representatives Commission I Abdul Kharis Almasyhari asserted the hostage of 1,300 citizens conducted by armed…

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration's plan to revoke a regulation that prohibits motorcycles from entering Jl. MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta, one…

An Indonesian museum that allowed visitors to take selfies with a life-size wax sculpture of Hitler against a backdrop of the Auschwitz…

Antara, Jakarta – State Administrative Law Lecturers Association (APHTN) chairman Mahfud MD stated that regulations in Indonesia are not well-…

Jakarta – Indonesian security forces in the eastern province of Papua are preparing to storm five villages that they say are being held by an…

Joseph Patrick McCormick – Indonesia has blocked GIFs on WhatsApp in an attempt to stop "obscene" images from being shared, including "gay photos…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-193-2017

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the…

Amilia Rosa and Jewel Topsfield, Timika, Papua – An armed Papuan group has occupied two villages near the massive Grasberg copper-gold mine as…

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan only gave a thumbs up when asked about a plan of the Confederation of Indonesian Workers Union (KSPI) to…

Jakarta – Hundreds of members of various labor organizations gathered in front of City Hall on Friday afternoon to protest the new provincial…

There's no doubt that Islamic hardliners and their politicized protests against former Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama played a…

M Yusuf Manurung, Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Workers Union (KSPI) chairman Muhammad Rusdi said that the political contract between…

Paul Garvey, Perth – Timor Leste has reinforced its insistence that gas from the Greater Sunrise LNG project be piped to Timorese soil, dashing…

Jakarta – Indonesia is seeking help from the World Bank to create a number of master plans on new tourist destinations being promoted by the…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The two largest Islamic organizations in Indonesia, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, have welcomed a…

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has warned the National Police not to prosecute Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders if there…

Jon Afrizal, Jakarta – University of Indonesia economist Fasial Basri has warned of a possible "minor economic crisis" in December because of "…

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo recognized four prominent Indonesians as the country's heroes on Thursday (09/11), ahead of the National…

Mary Boland, Dili - November 12th, 1991. As day breaks, an eerie quiet hangs over Santa Cruz Cemetery in Dili, East Timor.

Among the pretty…

Shannon Power – An alarming majority of lesbian, bisexual and trans (LBT) people in East Timor have faced violence.

Many women and trans men…

Aatai John – The ousted Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare defended his strong stance on the plight of the people of West Papua during the motion of…

Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati claims to see an anomaly in the decline in people's purchasing power in the third quarter as…

Jakarta – Indonesia's Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry said it will carry on with a boat grant program to provide fishing vessels for…

Chitra Paramesti, Jakarta – Former Head of the synchronization team for Anies-Sandi, Sudirman Said claims that he has never witnessed the Governor…