Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has vowed to continue efforts to push for an investigation into law enforcement practices in n

Jakarta – Legal experts are calling on the government to give protection to prominent human rights activist Haris Azhar in light of a recent report filed against him after he claimed that top offic

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi' Widodo is facing pressure to come out against the "criminalizing" of a Jakarta-based human rights activist, after he revealed allegations of stated officials invol

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Jakarta – Revealing explosive allegations of state officials involved in drug trafficking is not a criminal offense, observers have said after authorities filed reports against a leader of a human

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Rights activist Haris Azhar has requested the government's protection and commitment should the names of law enforcement personnel allegedly involved in executed c

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Think before you tweet or post anything on social media.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has said its move to report rights activist Haris Azhar to the National Police's Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) aimed

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – As one of the country's most outspoken human rights defenders, Haris Azhar, has long been a gadfly to the nation's security apparatus.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The National Police, the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) and the Indonesian Military (TNI) have reported rights activist Haris Azhar to the National Police's Crimi

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A mediation session between Yogyakarta Governor Hamengkubuwono and Papuan students in Yogyakarta on Friday failed to bridge their differences.

Jayapura, Jubi – UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Maina Kai, highlighted the issue of Papua in his report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

Jakarta – The Internet should be an equal world for all of its users, without any discrimination in terms of accessing content or expressing ideas, activists have said.

Victor Mambor, Jayapura – After officers broke up demonstrations and detained scores of protesters, police in eastern Indonesia's Papua and West Papua provinces said Tuesday they would prevent pro-

Purbalingga – Despite facing opposition from a number of mass organizations, the organizer of the Purbalingga Film Festival 2016 has decided to continue screening Pulau Buru Tanah Air Beta at the M

Bambang, Jakarta/Yogyakarta – Activists said on Monday that Indonesia could either maintain the spirit of democracy or return to the era of excessive restriction tantamount to what was seen during

Bambang Muryanto and Jon Afrizal, Yogyakarta and Jambi – Amid intimidation from the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) against scholarly discussions on Marxism, the country's intellectuals and the governm

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister of Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan wants security personnel not to excessively raid premises hosting leftist-

Arya Dipa, Bandung – In absence of the State's assurance for freedom of expression, the nation has continuously witnessed repressive acts against academic freedom within university campuses across

Arya Dipa, Bandung/Jakarta – A student press group in Bandung, West Java, has refused to bow to pressure from an intimidating hard-line group that had dispersed the former's Sekolah Marx (School of

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – You know the paranoia about a communist revival in Indonesia has jumped the shark when the nation's netizens start parodying it on social media.

Jakarta – A group of Indonesian students abroad have condemned recent seizures of leftist books in their homeland.

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Selfy Momongan (Magang), Jakarta – The recent raids against Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) related paraphernalia and books have attracted the special attention of the National Library (Perpusnas)

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – It was not anticipated that a vibrant celebration of 2016 World Press Freedom Day in Yogyakarta on May 3 would lead to chaotic scenes and scuffles between journalist

Ayomi Amindoni – The ASEAN Literary Festival 2016 continues as its second day on Friday saw a varied discussion about voicing social issues despite protests from several groups at the festival's op

Siswanto, Welly Hidayat – Islamic demonstrators have protested against the 3rd Asean Literary Festival (ALF) 2016 which is to be held today Thursday May 5 at the Ismail Marzuki Cultural Centre in C

A local group is organizing demonstrations against this year's ASEAN Literary Festival (ALF), accusing the event's organizers of having "ulterior motives".

Sydney (The Australian/Pacific Media Watch) – Timor-Leste Prime Minister Rui de Araujo has lashed out at Western critics, saying their nations had "acquiesced" to the 24 years of Indonesian occupat

Erika Anindita Dewi – The government and the House of Representatives will focus on an article on defamation in the amendment of the 2008 Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law, as both

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the Indonesian police's failure to protect and ensure the right to freedom of expression and assembly of various groups over the past two mo

Bambang Muryanto – Rights group Peaceful Yogyakarta Solidarity Forum have denounced the recent attempt by Islamic organizations and police personnel to forcefully disband Lady Fast 2016, an art eve

Arya Dipa, Bandung – After failing to be staged a day earlier because of pressure from a hardline group, a monologue performance about national hero Tan Malaka was eventually presented on Thursday

Tia Agnes, Jakarta – A monolog performance titled "Tan Malaka: I am a Red Haired Deer" should have been held by a theater group from the West Java provincial capital of Bandung at the Main Theater

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – Indonesian Francais Indonesia (IFI), the French cultural center in Bandung, West Java, and a Bandung-based theater group, Mainteater, canceled the monolog theater pe

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Freedom of expression in the country is in jeopardy, rights groups have warned, as the nation witnessed numerous cases of criminalization over alleged defamation in the past

Jakarta – After a recent rise in cases concerning freedom of expression throughout the country, the Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (ELSAM) has called on the government to guarantee the

Jakarta – Dangdut singer Zaskia Gotik was reported to the Jakarta Police on Thursday for allegedly insulting Pancasila, the five principles of the national ideology, and Indonesia's Independence Da

Corry Elyda and Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Despite threats and a venue change, the screening of the documentary film entitled Pulau Buru Tanah Air Beta continued on and received an abundance of support

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) located in Cikini, Central Jakarta, has long been a safe haven for artists and activists to express themselves.

Jakarta – Signs of the rise or reemergence of communism in Indonesia termed New Style Communism (Komunisme Gaya Baru, KGB) is apparent in a variety of different forms.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The government has tried to meet public demand by proposing the amendment of several draconian articles in the 2008 Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) La

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Facebook has suspended an Indonesian woman's account after she posted a series of historical photos of local women, based on numerous reports of "nudity" and "expl

Hanis Maketab – Facebook has suspended the account of a young Indonesian woman who posted historical photos of local women to protest the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission's censoring of a beauty

Timor Leste's prime minister has filed a defamation suit against a journalist, who learned of the legal action against him last month.

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Two antigraft activist from Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) have defied a police summons as part of a defamation probe into them.

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Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Activists have chastised the government for its apparent reluctance to remove an article on libel from the 2008 Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The National Police have opened an investigation into Erwin Natosmal Oemar of the Indonesian Legal Roundtable (ILR) after he criticized the police during a televised talk sh

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Academic freedom and freedom of expression are under threat in Yogyakarta as several universities have reportedly bowed to pressure from hard-line Islamic organizatio