Fabian Januarius Kuwado, Jakarta – Human Rights (HAM) activists in Indonesia have few expectations about the first debate between the presidential (capres) and vice-presidential (cawap

Jakarta – The head of the Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Uno presidential election campaign team (BPN), Djoko Santoso, says that that it is better to violate human rights than allow the

Bishops from the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia (ANZP) have expressed their "deep disappointment" at what they say is the continued suppression of the first peop

Jakarta – Environmental activist Eva Bande and a local group from Central Java, Sedulur Sikep, have won the prestigious human rights Yap Thiam Hien award for their roles in agrarian con

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Friski Riana, Jakarta – Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko announced that people within the Cabinet have been delegated to handle unresolved cases of severe Human Rights violations.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – National Resilience Institute (Lemhannas) Governor Agus Widjojo said Indonesia was not ready yet to reconcile with severe human rights violation in the p

Jakarta – West Papua National Committee (KNPB) spokesperson Ones Suhuniap says that security forces arrested 132 people during the commemoration of International Human Rights Day in Wes

Jakarta – When Vice President Jusuf Kalla (JK) arrived at the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) to commemorate International Human Rights Day on Tuesday December 11, he was

Reza Deni, Jakarta – Protesters from an alliance of rights groups held a rally in front of the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) offices during a commemoration of the 70th I

Human Rights Watch is calling on Papuan militants to stop unlawful killings, after a massacre of Indonesians took place in the Highlands region.

Reports from Indonesia indicated as many as 90 Papuans were taken in by police in Timika after holding a public event to support human rights.

Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla says it is not just the general public which has fallen victim to human rights abuses but the government has also been a victim of rights violations

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo decided to skip an event commemorating International Human Rights Day on Tuesday amid criticism the incumbent is not doi

West Papuan rights to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly have been defended by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in a response to the mass arrests of

Jakarta – Human rights activist and former coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), Haris Azhar, says that the protection and fulfillment of

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) says that the issue of past human rights violations are turned into a political commodity every time there

Anne Barker – Shortly before he died last year, a poor Indonesian farmer sat in a wheelchair in a room in eastern Java and addressed a panel of judges at the District Court in the Hague

Jakarta – Indonesia is an increasingly dangerous place for people defending the environment and their land, activists have claimed, with recent data showing environmentalists being the

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Every Thursday for more than 560 weeks, Ms Maria Katarina Sumarsih, clad in black and holding a black umbrella, has stood in front of the presidential palace i

Devy Ernis, Jakarta – The Papua National Liberation Army of the Free Papua Movement (TPN-OPM) General Coordinator Lambert Pekikir pressured the Indonesian government to immediately solv

Syafiul Hadi, Jakarta – The human rights defenders from around the world gathered in Paris, France, to hold 2018 The Human Rights Defenders World Summit, on October 29-31.

Rina Ayu, Jakarta – Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko says that law enforcement and human rights have progressed in the four years of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice Presiden

Indonesia's leading human rights organisation says president Joko Widodo has failed to honour human rights commitments including in Papua.

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) revealed the reasons that made the Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo-Jusuf Kalla (JK) administration fail to

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – Four years after his election, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has yet to fulfill many of his promises on the issues of human rights and graft eradication

Kristian Erdianto, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia executive director Usman Hamid believes that during the four years of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo leadership the protecti

Kristian Erdianto, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia executive director Usman Hamid says that over the four years that he has been in office, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has

Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno election campaign team spokesperson Dahnil Anzhar Simanjuntak has confirmed that cases of crimes against humanity such has human rights violation

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Dutch government has appealed a court decision that holds it liable for abuse and torture against an Indonesian man while he was held captive by the Du

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – Indonesia should follow in Malaysia's footsteps in abolishing the death penalty, a human rights group has said.

A West Papua human rights advocate is calling for solidarity from the New Zealand Government on issues affecting indigenous West Papuans.

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Nedi Putra AW, Batu, East Java – Suciwati, the widower of rights activist Munir Said Thalib, has revealed a plan to expand the Omah Munir museum in Batu, East Java, which was built to p

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Victor Mambor, Jayapura – The current president of Indonesia Joko Widodo is considered to be no different from Prabowo in Human Rights violations in Papua.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Human rights organization Amnesty International Indonesia demanded President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to fulfill his promises to resolve the alleged violatio

Kristian Erdianto, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia is calling in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's pledge to fully investigate cases of alleged human rights violations that hav

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Choirul Anam, the commissioner of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas Ham), has appealed to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to set September 7

Jakarta (Antara) – To commemorate the 14th anniversary of the assassination of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) commissioner Cho

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Dili – "Munir was a genuine friend of the East Timorese people, and all other oppressed peoples across the region," said Diamantino da Costa Freitas.

Fabian Januarius Kuwado, Jakarta – The 552nd Kamisan (Thursday action) held on Thursday September 6 was quite different from usual.

Godwin Ligo – "It is high time for the international community and the United Nations (UN) to call on Indonesia to stop mass killings of innocent West Papuan Melanesians.

Indonesian police chief General (Kapolri) Tito Karnavian has instructed Criminal Investigation Bureau chief (Kabareskrim) Inspector General Arief Sulistyanto to reopen the investigation

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – National Police Chief Gen. Tito Karnavian will summon the head of the police's criminal investigation division (Kabareskrim), Insp.

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – Convicted murderer of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, was finally declared a free man from the Class I Bandung Co

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Andreas Harsono – Indonesian authorities have moved six Moluccan political prisoners from a remote high-security prison island to an ordinary prison close to home, in Ambon, the provinc

Andi Hartik, Malang – Genoneva Misiati (76) is now resting in peace. Her long wait to find her beloved son, Petrus Bima Anugrah or Bimo is over but without success.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) is reluctant to take part in the integrated team to investigate past gross human rights violations whic