Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesians commemorated Human Rights Day by highlighting cases of unresolved rights abuses Sunday.

In Jakarta activists representing a number of organizations held a street rally to mark the day.

Demonstrators included followers of the Falun Gong Community Association, leading environment watchdog Walhi, the Urban Poor Network, the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and human rights monitor Impartial.

The rally began at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle at around 10 a.m. local time, national news agency Antara reported.

During the protest Falun Gong activists voiced concerns over the kidnapping, torture and illegal harvesting of human organs of their fellow followers in China. Falun Gong activists carried banners and posters reading, Stop kidnapping Falun Gong followers in China.

Secretary of the Indonesia's Falun Gong Community Association Liman was quoted as saying his group had evidence of the harvesting and sale of the organs of Falun Gong followers.

The protest saw Kontras activists demanding the immediate settlement of the 2004 murder case of noted human rights campaigner Munir Said Talib.

Munir was fatally poisoned on Sept. 7, 2004 on board a Garuda Indonesia flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam. A government-sanctioned fact-finding team implicated former top intelligence officers in the murder.

However, none of them were charged in the killing, while the sole suspect, Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, was acquitted of murder charges by the Supreme Court.

During the rally, Kontras protesters carried a replica of a Garuda aircraft, which read "Killer Flight".

In the meantime, Budi Pahlevi of the Urban Poor Network said that his group demanded a place to live for the poor and the right to work.

"Many houses have been demolished and the government has failed to provide jobs for the poor like street vendors, street musicians, beggars and others," he said.

After distributing stickers on human rights violations in the country to passersby and motorists, the demonstrators proceeded to the presidential palace to continue their rally while singing protest songs.

In Semarang, Central Java, activists and victims of human rights violations observed Human Rights Day quietly. They staged street theater and commemorative events at the Raden Saleh cultural center on Jl. Sriwijaya.

Among those in attendance were followers of Ahmadiyah, which the Indonesian Ulema Council has declared a heretical Islamic sect, street singers and vendors, beggars and other urban poor.

Event organizer Witono said cases of eviction, demolition of people's houses and stalls were among the human rights abuses that continued to take place across the country this year. This must all end, he said as quoted by Antara.