Siswanto, Welly Hidayat – Islamic demonstrators have protested against the 3rd Asean Literary Festival (ALF) 2016 which is to be held today Thursday May 5 at the Ismail Marzuki Cultural Centre in C

Paulina Quintao – The numbers of domestic violence victims accessing formal justice has increased since last year, according to Psychosocial Recovery and Development in Timor-Leste (PRADET).

The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) has urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to punish the National Police chief over the arrest of 1,724 activists in Papua for holding rallies in support

London (Free West Papua Campaign/Pacific Media Watch) – An historic step on the road to freedom for West Papua was taken in London today.

Bambang Muryanto – The Yogyakarta Police dispersed members of the city's Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) as they attempted to commemorate World Press Day on Tuesday.

Agnes Anya – The dispute between the Jakarta administration and Luar Batang residents of North Jakarta has grown more bitter with the residents violently showing their refusal toward the officials

Steve Cannane – UK Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn has spoken out about the plight of the West Papuan people and supported a push for democratic reform in the Indonesian province.

Nearly 2000 people were arrested on Monday, 2 May 2016, in mass unarmed civilian-based uprisings across West Papua, reports We Are Moving Stories.

Len Garae – "This report is an act of solidarity, I make it clear that this struggle is the struggle of the people of Papua.

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Church officials in Indonesia welcomed a report by an Australian archdiocese that criticizes the country for persistent human rights abuses in West Papua, and the church for n

Indra Budiari – Human rights activists deplored on Tuesday the city administration's decision to involve military officers in evictions, saying it was a violation of law and could potentially lead

Lyndal Rowlands, United Nations – High-level defamation, libel and sedition cases in Asian countries are sending signals to journalists that writing critical journalism can cost millions of dollars

Thirty journalists, representing a variety of mass media outlets in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), staged a rally to demand guarantees for press freedom on Tuesday to commemorate World Press Fr

Erika Anindita Dewi – Reports of rampant sexual violence against women and girls have not motivated lawmakers to bring forward deliberations of a sexual violence bill, arguing that there are many o

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani – The country's antigraft agency has lambasted the Golkar Party's policy that imposes a Rp 1 billion (US$76,000) registration fee for each candidate contesting the party's upc

Helen Davidson – The United Nations must pass a resolution for an internationally supervised vote for independence in West Papua, global parliamentarians and independence advocates have said.

Joshua Oppenheimer – There has been tremendous concern over the ways climate change will affect human rights, but little attention to how human rights abuse affects our global climate.

Ayomi Amindoni – Manufacturing was under pressure in the first quarter of 2016, with a 1.41 percent quarter-on-quarter (qoq) decline, according to the latest reading of the Central Statistics Agenc

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya – Motorcycle riders mounting the sidewalk is a common practice across the city, particularly when roads are packed with other vehicles.

Elly Burhaini Faizal – The sun shone brightly on the hundreds of fishermen occupying reclaimed Islet G in Jakarta Bay on Sunday, April 17.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya – Hundreds of North Jakarta residents held a rally in front of Jakarta City Hall on Tuesday to protest the frequent evictions by the Jakarta administration under the leade

The nomination as Golkar Party chairman of Hutomo 'Tommy' Mandala Putra, the youngest son of late former president Soeharto, will hamper the party's struggle to rebuild its image, an observer has o

Paulina Quintao – Increasing numbers of young people are turning their back on farming in favor of a job in the city, said the General-Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture, Cesar Jose da Cruz.

Margareth S. Aritonang – Public ignorance and poor law enforcement have made children vulnerable to crime, particularly rape, a child protection activist has said.

Rights activists are calling on the government to immediately pass the sexual violence bill, having deemed the bill crucial to protect women from such crime.

Sukma Indah Permana, Yogyakarta – A film showing of the documentary "Buru Island My Homeland" (Pulau Buru Tanah Tanah Air Beta) at the offices of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in th

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – Right activists visited the Office of the Coordinating Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister on Monday to report their findings on 122 mass graves across Java and

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Survivors of Indonesia's anti-communist massacres in 1965 submitted a list of what they say are more than 100 mass graves to the government on Monday after the president c

Jayapura, Jubi – Monday, (02/05/2016), Papua Police arrested protesters including West Papua National Committee (KNPB) members, student activists and Papuan pro-independence supporters.

Jayapura, Jubi – Journalists have been banned from covering the arrest of protesters who support the West Papua Liberation (United Liberation Movement for West Papua) in the square of the Mobile Br

Activists have accused Indonesian police of being heavy handed as they arrested pro-independence protesters in the eastern province of Papua.

The report of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission on its "shadow" human rights fact-finding mission to West Papua this year has found no improvement in human rights.

The New Zealand government has blocked a motion moved without notice by an opposition Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty on West Papua.

Latest reports from Indonesia indicate police arrested almost 1700 West Papuans yesterday for taking part in a series of demonstrations across Papua region.

Thomas Ora, Dili – The current daily minimum wage in Timor-Leste is outdated and needs to be raised, a top church official says.

Jogja – Hundreds of workers from various trade unions in the Central Java province of Yogyakarta commemorated International Labour Day or May Day by declaring the formation of a mass organisation c

A public march in Vanuatu's capital delivered a petition to the Melanesian Spearhead Group secretariat calling for full membership for West Papua.

Arrests by Indonesian security forces of West Papuan demonstrators have just begun minutes ago in Jayapura, as West Papuan people begin planned mass mobilisations to demand self-determination and r

Jakarta – Police have arrested 500 demonstrators during a rally in support for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, or ULM, and its effort to reach full member status of the regional Mela

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Ni Komang Erviani – Workers and labor activists spent their Sunday celebrating International Labor Day, also known as May Day, staging rallies in major cities nationwide,

Indonesian police have made widespread arrests in Papua region as West Papuans prepare to hold demonstrations.

Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) spoke on Sunday against a revision of Government Regulation No.

Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo said Sunday that any military official proven to be a drug user or dealer would face dismissal from his or her duties.

Tens of thousands of workers from diverse unions in Greater Jakarta participated in a high-spirited rally in commemoration of International Labor Day, also known as May Day, on Sunday in the capita

Corry Elyda – Dian Riski Rosmayanti, a 25-year-old worker, already felt dizzy when she got to the women-only train car that would transport her from Depok to her office in Pasar Baru, Central Jakar

Ayomi Amindoni – Indonesia recorded monthly deflation of 0.45 percent in April, an impact of a cut in fuel prices and concurrent reduction in public transportation fares at the beginning of the mon

Nethy Dharma Somba – Less than three months after his presidential inauguration, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo arrived in the Papua capital of Jayapura in December 2014 to a rock-star welcome.

Shinta Maharani, Yogyakarta – Hundreds of informal sector workers from the Yogyakarta People's and Worker Alliance (ARPY) called for the protection to ensure the rights of home-based and domestic w

Masfiatur Rochma – Thousands of workers held a protest action at the East Java Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) and the governor's office in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya on

Andrian Salam Wiyono – The commemoration of International Labour Day or May Day was marked by a protest action at the governor's office in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung on Sunday May