Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-035-2016

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Jakarta – Indonesia is preparing to execute more foreigners convicted of drug offenses as it maintains a contentious policy of imposing capital punishment for drug crimes.

Prima Wirayani – The government has to lure more private investments into the country in a bid to maintain growth momentum as economists projected the impacts of the government's spending will dimi

Jakarta – Law experts have called for a review of several provisions of the Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP), which regulates pre-prosecution, on Tuesday.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Law and Human Rights Ministry called on the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) on Sunday to relocate drug inmates from prisons and detention centers in order to ease an ove

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – An investigation carried out by a watchdog has confirmed that budget inflexibility has caused low prosecution rates in prosecutors' offices.

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is yet to decide on whether it will execute drug traffickers this year, but has said it will focus more on improving the economy for the next seven to eight mont

Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – The government will continue to hand out the death sentence to big players in drug trafficking world despite criticism from foreign countries and human rights activists, a

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY), the external judicial supervisory body, has elected its commissioner Aidul Fitriciada Azhari as its new chairman and Sukma Violetta as deputy ch

Jewel Topsfield – Two former teachers at the prestigious Jakarta Intercultural School have been re-sentenced to jail for allegedly sodomising three preschool boys, in a decision that will send shoc

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has taken a firm stance in formally opposing the government's plan to punish sex offenders using chemical castration.

Jakarta – Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Yohana Yembise has said her ministry has finalized the composing of a draft bill on chemical castration as a punishment for sex offenders

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – Indonesia's attorney general insists that death penalties must be maintained in the country's judicial system as a shock therapy against serious crime.

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa – Indonesia's Attorney-General has hosed down speculation a third batch of executions are imminent saying the nation's economy is "far more important".

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has stepped up its campaign to encourage marijuana farmers to give up their work and start growing more sustainable crops.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has inagurated five new commissioners for the Judicial Commission at the State Palace.

Jakarta – Human rights activists have joined forces to condemn the use of the death penalty in Indonesia for major crimes, such as drug trafficking.

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Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Human rights and judicial watchdogs have claimed that a child abuse case that led to the imprisonment of teachers and janitors at the Jakarta Intercultural Scho

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Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – One of Indonesia's most senior ministers has denied there will be a formal moratorium on executions in Indonesia.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a Hong Kong-based regional human rights organization, urges the Drafting Committee of the Parliament of Indonesia to review the draft billon th

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – As corruption cases pile up at the Jakarta Corruption Court, the Supreme Court has started a quick-selection process to recruit new ad hoc judges, raising concerns about the

Jakarta – Indonesia's justice minister has bemoaned the level of overcrowding in the country's penitentiaries, saying more needs to be done to rehabilitate rather than incarcerate drug users, who m

Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa is working on a draft bill on the practice of chemical castration as a punishment for convicted pedophiles despite issues raised by human

Jakarta – National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen.

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – A coalition of human rights groups has voiced opposition to the government's plan to introduce chemical castration for sex offenders.

Jakarta – Rights group Amnesty International has called on Indonesian authorities to immediately repeal Aceh's Islamic Criminal Code, which came into effect on Friday, arguing that punishing people

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Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Following mounting pressure to apply harsher penalties on child sex offenders, the government has given the green light to apply chemical castration on perpetrators in an e

Jakarta – The Aceh administration will start implementing a new, tougher Qanun Jinayat (Islamic criminal bylaw) on Friday, with wider scope and harsher punishments for violators, an official said o

Jakarta – Indonesia's president will soon sign a decree authorising the use of chemical castration to punish paedophiles, the attorney general said, following a string of headline-grabbing child se

Jakarta – An additional sanction for child sex offenders, in the form of castration, has received support from the Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Yohana Yembise.

Jakarta – The idea of injecting men who sexually abuse children with female hormones to reduce their sex drive has received support from many public figures, including President Joko "Jokowi" Widod

Erika Anindita – Death penalty convicts in Indonesia were frequently not given access to lawyers and were forced to confess after being severely beaten, says Amnesty International in its report rel

Melissa Davey – In the year since the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, assumed office, 14 prisoners have been executed, 12 of which were foreign nationals, an Amnesty International report has fou

Death row prisoners in Indonesia are routinely denied access to lawyers and are coerced into "confessions" through severe beatings, while foreign nationals facing the death penalty had

Jakarta – A lawmaker on Monday demanded the ousting of the Justice and Human Rights Ministry's penitentiary director general after another photograph was circulating online that seemed to be showin

National – Marking the 13th World Day against the Death Penalty on Saturday, the Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (ELSAM) has called on the government and the House of Representatives to

Jakarta – An alarming number of states across the globe, including Indonesia, continue to violate international law by executing people convicted on drug-related charges, Amnesty International said

Jakarta – In conjunction with the 13th World Day Against the Death Penalty, local rights groups have renewed their call for the government to abolish the death penalty, especially for drug convicts

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court handed down a ruling on Wednesday stripping the Judicial Commission of its role in the selection of judges for district courts, religious courts and

The appearances of imprisoned graft convict and former low-ranking tax officer Gayus Tambunan in public places is nothing extraordinary for former convict Bona Paputungan, because he often witnesse

Yogyakarta – Transferring a graft convict notorious for his out-of jail jaunts to a higher-security prison will solve nothing as long as the systemic corruption that allowed the fiasco to play out

Jakarta – Ex-tax officer, now prisoner, Gayus Halomoan Tambunan has admitted that he did indeed enjoy a meal at a restaurant recently, the photo of which went viral on social media.

Jakarta – A rights group, the Commission for Missing Person and Victims of Violence (Kontras), warned that the newly inaugurated National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – The newly inaugurated chief of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – In a proposed revision of Indonesia's Criminal Code, a stipulation has been introduced to curb the availability of contraceptive devices.

Tom Allard – Indonesian authorities have shut down an investigation into allegations that judges asked for bribes in exchange for more lenient sentences for executed Bali nine pair Myuran Sukumaran