Kuala Lumpur – The Indonesian government's bans on sending migrant workers to Malaysia will remain in force after both countries failed to agree on a minimum wage.

AHRC-OLT-004-2010

An Open Letter to Chief of Indonesian National Police

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Dozens of high school and university students staged a joint protest to reject National Education Minister Muhammad Nuh's visit to Medan on Saturday.

Camelia Pasandaran – In some of his strongest comments against terrorists yet, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday called on all Indonesians to join the government in combating

Almost 100 percent of 4,500 Indonesian urban teenagers sampled in a new survey have had oral sex and 32 percent have had full sexual intercourse.

Rofiuddin, Semarang – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali lamented the growing misconception of unlimited freedom that has entered the minds of Islam's followers.

Jakarta – The government should upgrade its ratification of the Convention of Rights of the Child (CRC) from a presidential decree to a law in order to better protect children, says a r

Ismira Lutfia & Camelia Pasandaran – A joint task force will be formed to monitor a long-awaited agreement to protect Indonesian workers in Malaysia after it is signed today.

Ismira Lutfia – If Malaysians seem to have been unfazed by the almost yearlong ban on the placement of Indonesian migrant workers, it is because an underground business has continued to

Ika Krismantari – If Samantha Jones from the hit TV series Sex in the City really existed, she might find Jakarta a dull place to live.

Jakarta – The number of Indonesian people contracting the HIV has been on the rise over the past couple of years, according to one NGO.

Dessy Sagita – The Anti-Corruption Court has found three sitting or former legislators guilty of involvement in a high-profile bribery case but sentenced the trio to comparatively light

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has asked the Old Banten sultanate management not to invite Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to deliver a sermon at the compound after the arrest of 12 su

Armando Siahaan – Appointing Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie to manage the daily operation of the ruling coalition will do little to stop the party's legislators from continuing to atta

Presi Mandari – Long Hubung, Indonesia.

Any plans to revise the 2003 Counterterrorism Law should be preceded by comprehensive research on how to effectively tackle terrorism, a legal expert said on Sunday.

Zaky Pawas & Ulma Haryanto – Three statuesque women carved in steel and an incident involving the Koran have both caused an uproar amongst conservative and hardline Islamic communit

Jakarta – Indonesia and Australia are strengthening maritime ties as a result of Exercise Cassoary 2010 (CA10).

Arientha Primanita – The Jakarta government on Friday played down recommendations made by the National Commission on Human Rights on the deadly April 14 riot in Tanjung Priok, saying th

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian police have uncovered a plot to assassinate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and senior government members at the presidential palace on Inde

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The government's plan to establish a corruption court in every region throughout the country has been hit by a lack of funding, mostly due to the fact

Farouk Arnaz & Candra Malik – The National Police on Friday said three members of an Islamist group led by hard-line cleric Abu Bakar Bashir would face charges of helping fund an ar

Heru Andriyanto – Attorney General Hendarman Supandji plans to rotate his deputies, officials said on Friday, in a move apparently meant to ease mounting public criticism of his failure

Jakarta – Gender-biased policies and poor implementation of health laws hinder the fulfillment of women's rights to adequate medical services, a study has found.

Arientha Primanita – The Jakarta governor and North Jakarta mayor must be held accountable for last month's riot in Koja that claimed four lives, the National Commission on Human Rights

James Van Zorge – In more ways than one, there is disturbing evidence that Indonesia's politicians have not bothered to read the Constitution.

Congress of the United States
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May 13, 2010

Nivel Rayda – Elite anti-terror police arrested three more people in Centra Java Thursday morning, a day after five suspects were killed in two separate clashes.

Arientha Primanita – The public is in for some "shocking" revelations about the recent bloody clash at Tanjung Priok as the city's fact-finding team prepares to release damning evidence

Jakarta – The police's counterterrorism squad has captured 17 terrorist suspects alive and shot dead five others in a series of raids conducted since Thursday last week.

Unruly teachers attempted to gain access to the House of Representatives compound on Wednesday by scaling the gate during a demonstration against poor working conditions.

Dianing Sari, Jakarta – Without an amendment to the Criminal Code, it is impossible for female victims of May 1998 to get justice.

Ulma Haryanto – The May 1998 riots that devastated the capital during the fall of former President Suharto, leaving more than 1,500 people dead and widespread reports of gang rapes, hav

Jakarta – Twelve years have passed, but Karsiah, 47, and Hiratetty Yoga, 59, still do not know who shot their son to death on the day of the Trisakti shootings on May 12, 1998.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The government's compensation for the victims of the 1998 May riots is useless without a concrete settlement of the tragedy, a human rights group says.

Farouk Arnaz – With police searching for further evidence against him, a new round of trouble could be looming for former chief of detectives Comr. Gen. Susno Duadji.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Terrorist suspects grouped under Jamaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT), who were arrested recently in Greater Jakarta, are not necessarily linked with the terrorist t

Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta – Fifty percent of prospective voters in the upcoming regional elections in North Sumatra will cast their votes based on which candidate has given them the most

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Pro-government parties have voiced concern over the appointment of Golkar Party chairman Aburizal "Ical" Bakrie as chairman of President Susilo Bambang

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Just five days after Golkar Party chief Aburizal Bakrie was appointed managing chairman of the ruling coalition's new joint secretariat, a few member parties

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Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – East Sumba residents have asked the local government revoke PT Fathi Resources' gold mining permit, claiming the company's mining exploitation is threatening t

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – After undergoing a seven-hour questioning session, former National Police chief detective Comr. Gen.

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Armando Siahaan – Despite its having endured months of attacks during the PT Bank Century bailout investigation, an independent survey released on Sunday showed the long-running saga ha

Armando Siahaan – The surprising new structure of the Democratic Party-led coalition, of which Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie is the managing chairman of the just-established joi

Armando Siahaan – Senior members of both the Democratic Party and Golkar Party have consistently denied that their relationship in the ruling coalition would affect the selection of a n

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A legislator from the Democratic Party says his party has had enough with the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) and the United Development Party (PPP) for

Candra Malik & Farouk Arnaz – Dozens of clerics gathered at a Central Java boarding school over the weekend to question radical religious leader Abu Bakar Bashir over last week's ar

Jakarta – Some say time and distance will heal any wound, but not, it would seem, the trauma of watching thousands of enraged people bearing down on you and your family with destruction