p>The Honorable Jose Ramos-Horta
President of Republic Democratic of Timor Leste
Palacio Das Cinzas,
Dili, Timor Leste

The shooting of the villagers in Pasuruan

Ted Sprague – In the midst of the hue and cry over the non-renewal of RCTV's license in Venezuela, freedom of speech is being blatantly violated in other parts of the world.

Evidence given by different witnesses to the Sydney coroner's court inquest into the death of Brian Peters and four other journalists in the East Timor town of Balibo on 16 October 1975

The Sydney coronial inquest into the deaths of the five Australian based journalists at Balibo in East Timor on October 16, 1975 has just concluded with a hard-hitting summation from th

My husband was convinced he would die young – that's why I married him.

When the governor of Jakarta, Sutiyoso, rejected a request earlier this week to attend and testify at the inquest into the death of British journalist Brian Peters now underway in Sydne

Reporters Without Borders voiced support today for Glebe deputy coroner Dorelle Pinch after her inquest into the 1975 murders of journalist Brian Peters and four colleagues in East Timo

In an open letter to the presidents of Indonesia and Timor-Leste, a worldwide coalition of three dozen human rights organizations led by groups from Indonesia and Timor-Leste today call

In an open letter to the presidents of Indonesia and Timor-Leste, a worldwide coalition of three dozen human rights organizations led by groups from Indonesia and Timor-Leste have calle

There have been further developments concerning the death of prominent human rights lawyer Munir Said Thalib on board a flight of Indonesia's national carrier on September 7, 2004.

Indonesia is vying for re-election to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC).

[The following is an open letter issued by the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) following the March 13 attack on Papernas's regional office in the Central Sulawesi provi

New York – The Indonesian government should do everything in its power to compel former military commander and minister of information Yunus Yosfiah to testify in an Australian inquest

Reporters Without Borders today hailed the resumption this week of an inquest into the murders of cameraman Brian Peters and four other journalists 32 years ago in East Timor, saying it

Dear friends,

Joe Collins from the Australia West Papua Association said there should be no ties with the Indonesian military until it can be proven that the TNI has been reformed.

Evidence of Indonesian military involvement in the deaths of two American citizens has been suppressed, according to a report released today by Joyo Indonesian News Service and Pantau F

London – Candidates in Timor-Leste's presidential election on April 9 should publicly commit to addressing the country's human rights problems and propose needed institutional reforms,

Governments of this country come and go but torture and human rights violations continue in many parts of Indonesia.

[The following statement was to be presented during action by the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) at the Hotel Shangri-La in Jakarta on March 29 to protest a meeting on

On Thursday 29 March 2007 at 11 am hundreds of member of the Islamic defenders front (FPI), the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) and other similar groups attacked a Papernas mass action o

We gladly applaud Indonesia government's planning to prevent the practice of disappearance by signing and ratifying international convention on the protection of all persons from enforc

"The United Nations condemns all violence and acts that support of violence in East Timor, calls for their immediate end, and demands that all those responsible for such violence be

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the House of Representative of Indonesia (DPR) had informed that the cases of gross human rights violations includ

It has been eight years since the so-called 'reformation' was launched. It has also been eight years since extraordinary human rights abuse have nearly been forgotten.

[The following letter was written by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Progressio and TAPOL.]

Sydney – Reporters Without Borders has hailed the warrant issued on 1 March 2007 by Sydney coroner Dorelle Pinch for the arrest of Yunus Yosfiah, the former Indonesian army officer who

Human Rights Working Group (HRWG), Kontras, ELSAM, Imparsial, PBHI, Yayasan HAK and FORUM-ASIA have closely viewed the 19-21 February 2007 hearing process of the Commission of Truth and

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) said today that the joint Indonesia-East Timor Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) can not further either goal its name suggests.

The Commission for Disappeared and Victims of Violence (Kontras) expresses regret toward the tardiness of Indonesian government to release President Decision on implementation of Law No

Six West Papuan Student activists from the Student and Civil Society Coalition Concerned about Human Rights in Papua (Koalisi Mahasiswa dan Masyarakat Peduli HAM di Papua) were arrested

The revelation this week by Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono that Indonesia is considering the procurement of BAE Systems Hawk aircraft from the UK [1] confirms that the two countries

In another day of testimony to a coroner's court in Glebe, Sydney, three former Timorese militiamen working for the Indonesian special forces during the October 1975 attack on the East

Indonesian government needs to be more serious in dealing with the matter

Australian activists who were invited to a left unity conference near Yogyakarta January 18-21 have remained holed up elsewhere because of threats of violence from an ultra-right gang s

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer must seek answers from Indonesia about reports that one person has been shot dead and thousands of others have been displaced by military and police op

Dear friends,

The Indonesia Human Rights Committee is calling on the New Zealand Government to offer to facilitate dialogue between West Papuan representatives and the Government of Indonesia.

According to reports from the Puncak Jaya region of West Papua, several thousand extra troops from the Indonesian Army (TNI) have been deployed to the region this month in response to f

On the 7th December 2006, the Supreme Court in Jakarta abolished the highly controversial Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Bill of 2004, which the residing Judges described as

Amnesty International welcomes the decision of the Indonesian Constitutional Court to decriminalise the act of insulting the President or the Vice-President, as a significant step towar

Jakarta/New York – The decision by Indonesia's Constitutional Court to strike down a deeply flawed law establishing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a significant first st

Reporters Without Borders has lambasted the decision of the Indonesian authorities to ban screening of four films, three on East Timor and one about Aceh province, at the 8th internatio

Controversial British arms company, BAE Systems, is coming under renewed attack for attending this week's second Indonesia arms fair to be held in Jakarta from 22-25 November.

A wide range of U.S. organizations have urged President Bush "to refrain from promising any military assistance to Indonesia's armed forces" on his upcoming visit to Indonesia.

Australians are getting a rare opportunity to learn about Timor-Leste and to better understand its story through Chega!, the Final Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reco

President Bush should ask the Indonesian president about his government's failure to convict anyone for the fatal poisoning of Munir Said Thalib two years ago, a leading human rights ad

On the fifteenth anniversary of the infamous massacre at Santa Cruz cemetery in Timor-Leste, the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) called for justice for its victims and th