Camelia Pasandaran – Banten Governor Ratu Atut Chosiyah stepped out of her black Mitsubishi Pajero Sport SUV at the Corruption Eradication Commission's South Jakarta headquarters on Fri

Jakarta – The legal fight challenging the appointment of Constitutional Court (MK) justice Patrialis Akbar has gained momentum following the arrest of the court's former chief justice,

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Last week's arrest of Akil Mochtar, the chief justice of the Constitutional Court, for bribery allegations has prompted calls to limit the court's authority,

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Former Constitutional Court chief justice Mahfud MD has denied all the bribery allegations leveled against him following the arrest of another former chief

Urgent Appeal Update: AHRC-UAU-028-2013

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Jacqui Baker – On 3 March of this year, in a Tangerang courtroom, a young warung (food stall) owner named Yeni raised her skinny fist in victory.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-124-2013

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Erwin Sihombing – Anti-corruption activists and human rights groups are threatening to sue President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over his recent decision to

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Activists from the Indonesia Legal Roundtable (ILR) are planning to challenge the legality of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's decision to appoint former law

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has selected former law and justice minister Patrialis Akbar as a Constitutional Court justice, a move many have said could be

Novianti Setuningsih – The recent arrest of a lawyer for allegedly bribing a Supreme Court official has sparked a debate between those who say the case is just the tip of the iceberg, a

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – In the latest scandal exposing the corruption that plagues the judiciary, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Friday detained and charged a low-ranking

Bayu Marhaenjati – After two jailbreaks within a week left convicted terrorists and career criminals on the run from over-crowded Medan and Batam jails, the Jakarta government has respo

Ina Parlina and Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta – The government said on Saturday it would evaluate a 2012 government regulation on remissions believed to have triggered a prison riot in Medan

Farouk Arnaz – The mind-set of law enforcers needs to be changed to make them understand that not all drug users are criminals and that they need rehabilitation instead of imprisonment,

Tim Mann – Television, air conditioning, internet, karaoke, maids. These are not luxuries one would normally associate with Indonesian's maligned corrections system.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Activists say that the government must establish a family court system to accommodate the rights of women and children that have been ignored by existing religiou

Ina Parlina – While many citizens are enjoying new freedoms, minorities are still persecuted.

UA: 109/13 Index: ASA 21/010/2013

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A coalition of religious freedom activists, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists, and human rights and judiciary watchdogs has rejected

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Legislators have come out in defense of a controversial push by the government to reinstate criminal charges for insulting the president, a provision that was

Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The debate over a government proposal to reinstate criminal charges for insulting the president is heating up, with critics

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-056-2013

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Ezra Sihite – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) on Wednesday said it would support a revision of the criminal code (KUHP) which includes a controversial article that would punish witch

The Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party wants to revise the Criminal Code (KUHP) to reinstate an article to punish those who insult the President.

Ezra Sihite – The head drafter of the Criminal Code Law (KUHP) revision on Saturday claimed that a controversial article which would punish witchcraft is intended to protect people from

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Carlos Paath – A conservative legislator has sprung to the defense of a proposed article against witchcraft in a newly drafted revision to the Criminal Code, insisting it addresses a mo

The Indonesian government's execution of Adami Wilson is a senseless end to four years without state killings.

A draft of a criminal code (KUHP) revision proposed by the government for debate earlier this month punishes unmarried people caught having sex, a report said on Thursday.

After refraining from executing individuals for four years, the Indonesian authorities executed a Nigerian national, Adami Wilson, on 14 March 2013.

This is really outrageous news.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) said on Wednesday that it would launch a probe into a report that a judge, who was dismissed from his position a year ago, continues

Indonesia's Supreme Court on Wednesday implemented a new policy stipulating that the theft of anything less than Rp 2.5 million ($258) would be classified as a petty crime and would not

Michael Bachelard – Australian travellers to Indonesia beware: smuggling drugs will still earn you jail time but, if an official draft of the country's new criminal code becomes law, wi

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Camelia Pasandaran & Abdul Qowi Bastian – Indonesia's revision of its outdated Criminal Code includes proposed sanctions against cheating spouses, cohabiting couples and sorcerers a

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Supreme Court said on Wednesday that it backed a proposal to scrap the "fit-and-proper" test session at the House of Representatives in the selection of justi

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-018-2013

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Jakarta – As part of its house cleaning measures, the Supreme Court pledged on Thursday to step up its crackdown on corrupt judges.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) has found that many judges were dishonest in exercising their judgments and fell short of applying strict court procedures.

Rangga Prakoso – A government watchdog monitoring the performance of prosecutors says it has received about 1,107 complaints from the public in 2012, ranging from allegations of extorti

Young prisoners and adults are held in the same prison but PRADET says this will impact their mental health.

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Less than two weeks after the resignation of Justice Achmad Yamanie, allegedly for forging a document, the Supreme Court has begun proceedings that could en

Jakarta – Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Mahfud MD, who announced on Wednesday that he would not throw his hat in the ring for another term, seems bent on going out with a bang

Jakarta – Achmad Yamanie became the first Supreme Court judge in the country to resign from his position, citing health concerns.

Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Mahfud MD has called for the dismissal and replacement of all law enforcement officials so the nation's judicial institutions can be freed from t

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-193-2012

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The Judicial Commission said on Friday it will look into claims by a disgraced Bekasi judge that many of his colleagues in Jakarta were drug users and often engaged in "drug parties."

Zakir Hussain, Jakarta – More than 100 inmates are on death row in Indonesia, some for well over 10 years.