Ezra Sihite, SP/Robertus Wardi & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Surveys are finding that old faces will dominate the upcoming presidential campaign, with the latest poll placing general

Will Sinclair – It was the kind of event that Lady Gaga would have surely supported.

Margareth S.

Ezra Sihite, Ismira Lutfia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Retired Army general Prabowo Subianto has topped a list of likely presidential candidates in a recent study by the Soegeng Sa

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has issued a new regulation ensuring the legitimacy of 20 deputy ministers in his cabinet, after the Constitutional Court declared earlier this week t

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – The top legislator in Tasikmalaya said on Wednesday that the headscarf requirement stipulated in the soon-to-be-enforced shariah-inspired bylaws in the West Java

Ardi Mandiri – Less than a week after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono banned the use of subsidized fuel for government vehicles, public officials in Depok announced plans to change v

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – The government expects the trade surplus to plunge to one-fifth of last year's level as the worldwide economic downturn will likely continue to hurt the countr

Human Rights Council
Twentieth session
Agenda Item 3
Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression

Jakarta – Increasing religious intolerance as documented in a recent survey should be blamed on official indecisiveness in confronting hostile radical groups, an activist has said.

Jakarta – What traits should one have to become Indonesia's next president?

Ezra Sihite & Yuli Krisna – Shariah-inspired bylaws due to be enacted in the West Java city of Tasikmalaya have been condemned by Islamic leaders, locals and politicians, with one e

Yanto Soegiarto – Old documents reveal that on Aug. 4, 1965, Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, collapsed in his room at Merdeka Palace.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – The planned enactment of a bylaw on obligatory headscarves in Tasikmalaya municipality, West Java, has drawn criticism from activists and a lawmaker but a ha

Ezra Sihite, Ismira Lutfia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives again topped a list of corrupt institutions in a survey conducted by the Soegeng Sarjadi Syndica

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Bayu Marhaenjati & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Officials and analysts criticized on Monday the recently enacted ban on state-owned vehicles using subsidized

Ina Parlina and Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has ordered President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reappoint 20 deputy ministers following a challenge from the Na

Arientha Primanita – A new legal foundation has given the National Police Commission the teeth it needs to monitor the work of the police, officials said on Monday at the inauguration o

Jakarta – Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) chief Prabowo Subianto and Golkar politician Jusuf Kalla topped a list of 12 hypothetical tickets for the 2014 presidential election, a sur

Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan – A panel of judges sentenced three men responsible for the maintenance of the Kutai Kartanegara bridge to one year in jail after the span collapsed l

Jakarta – A new survey published on Tuesday has once again confirmed the widely held assumption that religious intolerance is rising in the country.

Jakarta – The head of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) says the council has always held that vasectomies and tubectomies were not allowed under Islamic law.

Margareth S.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) blamed politics for the absence of a deterrent effect that should have resulted from the sentencing of state-owned ent

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – Communal clashes and cyclical violence have long been an unfortunate feature in many areas of Central Sulawesi.

Jakarta – Governments have no right to control the domain of morality and should not create and enforce laws that control the way people dress, according to a researcher at human rights

Jakarta – A lawmaker is criticizing local legislators in Tasikmalaya, West Java, for drafting a regulation that would require all Muslim women, including visitors, to wear headscarves.

Jakarta – Representatives of the University of Indonesia's student executive body (BEM UI) rallied at a train station near their campus in Depok, West Java, to protest the alleged misma

Ulma Haryanto & Anita Rachman – In November 2011, the House of Representatives ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, four years after the country bec

Jakarta – Even though the Constitution guarantees freedom of expression, the nation needs tougher regulations to deal with religious hate speech that might lead to violence, rights acti

Rizky Amelia – The number of torture cases involving state officials continues to rise and has left 10 people dead in four months, according to a study by the Institute for Policy Resea

Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono openly expressed his annoyance with guests who were talking while he was delivering a speech on World Environment Day in Jakarta

Jakarta – A human rights group alleged over the weekend that the National Police made widespread use of torture in their detention centers to extract information from detainees.

Arientha Primanita – Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto said on Monday that he would pray for Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) chief Rizieq Shiha

Kafil Yamin, Indramayu – Another month of plying his becak in the capital city and Sarjo will be coming back to this West Java district to harvest the rice ripening on his 1,400 square

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung, West Java – Tasikmalaya, West Java, will soon require all Muslim women, residents and visitors alike, to wear veils to enforce its sharia ordinance.

Jakarta – A recent study from one of Indonesia's rights watchdogs shows that Christians face the most religious rights violations.

Forty-seven Afghan asylum seekers were arrested by police in Sukabumi, West Java, on Sunday as they allegedly attempted to sail to Australia's Christmas Island, police told the Antara n

AHRC-OLT-011-2012

June 4, 2012

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of the Republic of Indonesia

Arientha Primanita & Dessy Sagita – Lady Gaga was never going to show up at Jakarta's Gelora Bung Karno stadium on Sunday.

Indonesia has resumed sending maids to work in Malaysia three years after a ban was enforced because of numerous abuse cases, but fewer than a third of them had arrived, according to a

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Bayu Marhaenjati – As one of the state institutions subject to a ban on using subsidized fuel for its vehicles as of the start of this month, the Jakarta

SP/Robertus Wardi – The government must be serious about bringing a raft of alleged human rights abuses to trial, in light of international scrutiny of Indonesia's track record, a senio

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Friday detained Miranda S.

Development programs cannot proceed and are practically interrupted in times of conflict or violence.

Ulin Yusron & Ardi Mandiri – A high-level member of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) said on Saturday that the organization was having a difficult time controlling some o

Amid rising public criticism that the police are being weak against hard-liners such as the Islamic Defenders Front, the force took action and prevented the radical group from destroyin

Arientha Primanita – An audit of government financial reports has identified hundreds of trillions of rupiah from the 2011 state budget still unaccounted for.

Dessy Sagita – Indonesia's weak regulations on cigarette sales and advertising make it the last remaining haven for the international tobacco industry, says a consumer protection activi