Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The struggle for justice for human rights abuse cases in Indonesia could be likened to a broken record falling on deaf ears, as activists have once again rem

Humans, regardless of their social, economic and ethnic background, hold in high esteem justice, dignity and freedom from persecution, and Papuans, who have faced decades of rights viol

Hangga Brata & Ezra Sihite – In his International Anti-Corruption Day speech on Friday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the government would engage more with antigraft activ

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – The governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) is slamming inefficiency in the country's banking industry that he says pushes up lending rates and blocks the nation from e

Vento Saudale, Bogor – Influential homeowners in Bogor are reportedly preventing the city's administration from acting against 250 dwellings in the Puncak area that were built in breach

Ati Nurbaiti, Canberra – As of September this year, at least 26 regencies and municipalities have passed bylaws restricting or banning the Ahmadiyah sect, 11 of them in West Java alone,

Jakarta – The first things that came into Sri Warini's mind when she found her house had been robbed were that she must call the police and make a list of all the items that had been st

Farouk Arnaz – The Densus 88 Counterterrorism Unit ran into some luck on Friday when they knocked on a door and a terror fugitive suspect voluntarily opened the door.

Eddy Pratama – Six people accused of a series of bomb scares across Central Java a year ago were sentenced on Thursday to between five and six years in prison by the West Jakarta Distri

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – The Kalimantan orangutan population is increasingly under threat, with the discovery of the remains of several of the great apes that had been killed in forests

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Commemorating International Anti-Corruption Day, which falls Friday, hundreds of university students in Makassar staged rallies on Thursday, demanding that t

Olivia Rondonuwu – Indonesia's parliament is likely to pass a long-delayed land bill next week, a move that investors hope will speed up land acquisition to spur infrastructure developm

Jakarta – Six government coalition political parties appear unwilling to reconcile their divergent views on proposed amendments to the legislative threshold, as legislators begin to del

Rawagede – The Dutch government formally apologized on Friday to the families of victims of a 1947 massacre on Indonesia's Java island, on the 64th anniversary of the executions by its

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly Taufik Kiemas said on Thursday that the government should dismiss the Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force

Dessy Sagita – Indonesia's outspoken Constitutional Court Chief Mahfud M.D.

Peter Alford, Jakarta – Indonesia's government is planning to cope with severe financial and economic shocks in coming months, including food shortages, Vice-President Boediono said yes

Raisa Premiera – A group of vocal supporters continued an overnight vigil outside a Jakarta hospital on Thursday to support a man who dramatically set himself on fire during a suspected

On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2011 the AHRC publishes its annual report on the State of Human Rights in Indonesia in 2011.

Jakarta – The nation's money laundering watchdog has revealed that dozens of civil servants – still in their 20s or 30s – are thought to have committed graft and stashed their illegal g

Camelia Pasandaran – A Prosperous Justice Party board member said that party lawmaker, Adang Daradjatun, has the right to keep his graft suspect wife's location secret.

Ezra Sihite – The newly selected leadership of the national antigraft commission was approved at a plenary session of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, with deposed chairman Busy

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Demonstrators representing 27 Muslim groups rallied in Bandung on Monday, demanding that the West Java governor remove the Garut regency secretary for his al

Ezra Sihite – The proposed fingerprinting system intended to more accurately gauge attendance at official meetings was again criticized during a plenary session on Tuesday where only 30

Representatives from Amnesty International met with the coordinating minister for legal, political and security affairs on Tuesday, urging him to free political prisoners incarcerated f

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo says that he has placed his hopes on religious preachers to help reduce the vast spread of HIV/AIDS in the city.

Ezra Sihite – A hearing on the contentious new policy to deny sentence cuts to corruption convicts turned ugly on Wednesday with a legislator losing his temper at Justice Minister Amir

Arientha Primanita & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite a new promise from the home affairs minister to send a long-delayed bill on village governance to the legislature, village ch

Vento Saudale, Bogor – Human trafficking remains a serious problem for Indonesia, according to a government official who said underage and West Java women were disproportionately repres

Camelia Pasandaran – The religious-based Prosperous Justice Party says it will evaluate the performance of controversial Depok mayor Nur Mahmudi Ismail after the Corruption Eradication

Banyumas – Around 400 hawkers protested the decision of railway company PT KAI to ban them from operating inside trains, saying that the decision would foster unemployment.

Jakarta – The East Nusa Tenggara provincial government has set the minimum regional wage for 2012 at Rp 925,000 (about US$102) a month.

Ulma Haryanto – The year 2011 has been yet another period of abject failure by the government to protect human rights, according to the results of a survey released on Monday.

Dessy Sagita – Thirteen-year-old Sefritania Salsabilla cringes and looks away every time she sees people kissing and hugging on television.

Jakarta – At least four groups of House of Representatives (DPR) members are traveling abroad this month for what they claim are "comparative studies".

Joni Nunas Lestari, 31-years-old, was sentenced to two years in jail on Tuesday after disguising herself as a man and tricking another woman, Nur Aslim Velayati, 22, into marrying her.

Dion Bisara – Indonesia is one step closer to slashing a number of zeros from the rupiah after the government on Tuesday said it would submit a currency redenomination bill to the House

Fitri, Mataram – Hundreds of villagers in East Lombok have attacked and set alight a hut used by a small group deemed to be a deviant sect, forcing police to evacuate and save the sect

Medan – Hundreds of drivers of motor-powered tricycles, locally known as becak motor, staged a rally at the municipal office against what they claimed was discriminatory treatment by th

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono and his Democratic Party will face an ugly battle in the lead up to the 2014 elections as politicians,

Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia says it has ratified a global treaty banning nuclear test explosions.

Bayu Marhaenjati – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stressed on Sunday the importance of preserving religious harmony in Indonesia and condemned religious groups' intimidation of othe

Vento Saudale – The continued blockade of the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor by the local administration and hard-line Muslims has drawn the ire of the World Council of Churches, which warn

Mike Corder, The Hague – The Dutch government will pay compensation and apologize to relatives of men killed by Dutch troops in a notorious 1947 massacre of villagers during Indonesia's

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Michelle Natalie – Thousands of village chiefs protesting at the House of Representatives say they won't leave for at least a week to force the government

Theresia Sufa, Jakarta – President of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Rev.

Jakarta – In spite of the continuous government program against HIV/AIDS, for many of Jakarta's poor the program remains elusive, with many impoverished residents still not receiving co

Dessy Sagita – A school that earned the ire of the nation for rejecting, on World AIDS Day last week, a 6-year-old student because her father was HIV positive apologized on Monday but c

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – During the 32-year rule of military strongman Soeharto, the Golkar Party prospered on the back of military power.

Leaders of various worker's unions and movements say they will group together into a more organized front, and establish a joint committee and local branches in cities to oppose the pol