Ken Setiawan – After the latest round of executions, and with the death penalty seen as a justified response to drug-related crimes, is there any hope for human rights reform in Jokowi's Indonesia?

Faiza Mardzoeki, Jakarta – Indonesia has now been independent for 71 years. What has been achieved, especially for women?

Independence day speeches need clear signal on human rights

Attorney-General George Brandis went to the Indonesian province of Papua last week, boasting his trip was a first by an Australian minister.

Lindsay Murdoch – Try to picture this: almost every man, women and child forced from their homes, often at gunpoint, usually because of the sheer terror of staying.

On the eve of Bali's terror summit, Justice Minister Michael Keenan said he'd "welcome" convicted war criminal Wiranto to Australia effectively closing the Turnbull Government's book on the East Ti

One of the reasons corruption is difficult to uproot in the country, despite the hard work of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), is the risk of prosecution that is intended to kill the me

Jokowi's second reshuffle is a win for the president's loyalists and financiers.

Saskia E. Wieringa, Amsterdam – To this day victims and survivors of the mass killings and other crimes against humanity committed by the military and the militias associated with them after Oct.

Nicholas Koumjian, Phnom Penh – The Jakarta Post reported last Friday that Gen.

Until recently we rarely had kissing scenes on screen, and when we did blurred images have been used as a desperate attempt to protect public morality, which critics worry is currently heading for

Indonesia and the Melanesian Spearhead Group need the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

Why Jakarta must let the Melanesian Spearhead Group decide who is in and who is out, and what matters for Melanesian people.

Damien Kingsbury – Indonesia President Joko Widodo's recent announcement of his new cabinet line-up aroused two responses.

Relations between Yogyakarta Governor Hamengkubuwono and Papua have been fairly close, with the sultan of the country's only ruling monarchy opening his arms to people from the easternmost province

The Hague tribunal decision last week in the South China Sea case will have far reaching implications, finding that any 'historic rights' China claimed within the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of

Indonesia could claim a diplomatic victory over those who have for decades been offering international support for Papuan independence after the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) denied full members

Bradley Wood – The release of the 2015 Indonesian Defence White Paper has codified the Bela Negara (defend the nation) civilian volunteer program making it an explicit part of Indonesia's defence s

Nithin Coca – If you want to point at one incident that transformed Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo from an inspiring, hopeful candidate to the oft-criticized, ineffective head of a unrul

Duncan Graham – Indonesia's insistence on the death penalty will haunt its people and the nation for decades to come.

Keith Johnson – In recent years, Indonesia has tried to stay above the fray as other countries feuded with Beijing over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

James Balowski – A recent spate of arrests of people for wearing T-shirts with symbols of the banned Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), seizures of books about the 1965 anti-communist purge and a pr

"We are committed to resolving with justice the cases of past human rights violations which until now are still socially and politically burdening the people of Indonesia, such as: the May riots, T

Cerdikwan, Jakarta – On June 15 President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo submitted the name of Comr. Gen. Tito Karnavian as the sole candidate for National Police chief to the House of Representatives.

[Amnesty supporters worldwide wrote thousands of letters on behalf of Filep Karma who was released from prison in November 2015.

Andrea Needham – What do you do when your government is selling weapons to a brutal regime? Weapons which are then used to attack civilians in a nearby country, killing thousands?

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has frequently expressed his intense anger with drug dealers, even to the extent of executing some of them.

Maire Leadbetter – It is time that New Zealand recognised the obvious – Indonesia's repressive rule has not extinguished West Papuan aspirations for freedom.

Nusakambangan. In early January, I brought my wife and toddler daughter along on a visit to the Nusakambangan prison.

Celestino Gusmao – Indonesia recently held a symposium on the violent events of 50 years ago which brought the Indonesian General Suharto to power.

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Indonesia is looking this week to pass a controversial tax amnesty bill that will reward tax evaders, but at the expense of those who have met their tax obligations.

Phelim Kine – Indonesia's Minister of Home Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo backtracked on a pronounced commitment to abolish abusive Sharia regulations in the country.

Okky Madasari, Jakarta – "Have you ever imagined, if only Indonesia didn't invade Timor Leste in 1975, would everything be very different now?

Benny Wenda – Last week, thousands of West Papuan people rallied in the streets to call for freedom and for our fundamental right to self-determination to be exercised.

Scott Edwards and Masyithoh Annisa Ramadhani – Indonesia's new Defense White Paper, released at the end of April 2016 (originally due in 2013-2014, but delayed due to a change of administration and

Jamil Anderlini – On September 21 1999 Sander Thoenes, a Financial Times correspondent, was shot and killed by soldiers from the Indonesian army on the outskirts of Dili, the capital of East Timor,

Gatra Priyandita, Indonesia – Military figures have publicly warned of discreet attempts by communists to launch a revolution and reminded citizens to steer clear of communism or risk imprisonment.

Jakarta – Indonesians on Monday celebrated 115 years since the birth of the country's first president, Sukarno, best remembered as a national hero who proclaimed independence more than 70 years ago

Bureaucratic reform has remained an unresolved debate for many years, despite the Civil Service Law, dubbed the panacea for the acute problems plaguing Indonesian bureaucracy, coming into force in

Winarno Zain, Jakarta – The controversy over the Jakarta Bay land reclamation project that has triggered months of national debate seems to center on several critical issues.

Grace Phan – The words spoken by President Barack Obama in Hanoi, Vietnam in May resonated loudly with the people of Timor-Leste.

Saskia Wieringa – The gang rape and gruesome murder of Yuyun, a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Bengkulu, Sumatera made international headlines.

The government's talk of declaring Pancasila Day on June 1 a national holiday seems to reveal a yawning gap between the past and today's regime in terms of methods of instilling moral guidance in c

Duncan Graham, Malang, East Java – Indonesia has been rightly promoting its many positives.

Dr Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, Honolulu, Hawaii – Late last week, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement rejecting the Solomon Islands Prime Minister's comments on the issue

Geoffrey Swenson – In Timor-Leste, a peaceful transition of power is ironically threatening to undermine democracy.

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – Newly elected Golkar Party chairman Setya Novanto has a string of alleged graft cases in tow, which comes as a surprise to no one.

Andreas Harsono, Jakarta – The detention of more than 1,500 Papuan independence supporters on May 2 for "lacking a permit to hold a rally" speaks volumes of the government's stubbornly problematic

Maire Leadbeater – It would be hard to overstate the importance of the role that Jose Ramos Horta played during the long dark years when Timor Leste was occupied by Indonesia.

Veronica Koman – When outsiders think of Papua, it may be to puzzle over why protests there seem never-ending.