Dian Septiari, Jakarta – Indonesia has blamed staff members of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights regional office in Bangkok for lack of coordination over the planned

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesia has criticized the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, saying that his regional office in Bangkok should first coordinate with the government

Natalia Santi, Jakarta – Indonesia's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Hasan Kleib, has slammed the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (KT HAM) for arranging

Hanna Azarya Samosir, Jakarta – The Indonesian government says that the statement by the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Raad Al Hussein, on the government's in

Hanna Azarya Samosir, Jakarta – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Raad Al Hussein, has questioned the invitation from the Indonesian government to visit West P

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed concern at not yet being able to visit Indonesia's Papua region.

David Sobolim, Manokwari – Dozens of human rights activists, the families of victims, and human rights partisans held a protest to commemorate human right violation in Wasior 2011 by ho

Phelim Kine – What is the Indonesian government hiding in Papua?

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Rahul Bhattarai, Auckland – Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson last night condemned the "obscenity" of jailing West Papuans by Indonesian authorities for raising their Morning Star f

Jeffrey Hutton – While she was a student at University of Indonesia, Raisa Widiastari began volunteering with the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, a big national

Phelim Kine – The Indonesian government is backing away from commitments to provide accountability for grave past human rights abuses.

Andhika Prasetia, Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) met with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo today.

Sheany, Jakarta – Just when the government seemed ready to take responsibility for resolving cases of past human right abuses and despite a commitment by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo

Tsarina Maharani, Jakarta – National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) chairperson Ahmad Taufan Damanik hopes that past cases of gross human rights violations will be soon be investi

Samsudhuha Wildansyah, Jakarta – The government is planning to form a National Reconciliation Council (DKN).

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – The coordinator of the Missing Persons and Victims of Violence Commission (Kontras), Yati Andriyani, questioned the reason why the Attorney General mentioned th

Jakarta – Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo is pessimistic about the chances of resolving past gross human rights violations through legal channels.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is scheduled to meet survivors and families of the victims of past human rights abuses who regularly participate in a we

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – Suciwati Munir, the wife of a human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, refused to meet with President Joko Widodo or Jokowi during the regular protest, kn

Jakarta – Maria Catarina Sumarsih, the mother of Wawan, a victim of the Semanggi I student shootings, has demanded that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo fulfill his promise to resolve pas

Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs, former General Wiranto, did not attend a meeting between President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and the families of vic

Ria Apriyani, May Rahmadi, Jakarta – Presidential spokesperson Johan Budi says that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo had long wanted to meet the families of victims of past gross human ri

Max Walden – "I shed a tear.

Jessica Damiana, Jakarta – For the past decade, Indonesian housewife Maria Sanu has joined a small group of protesters at a silent weekly vigil outside the presidential palace in Jakart

Almost every week Asih Widodo attends a vigil outside Indonesia's presidential palace, seeking justice for his son who died in an orgy of violence after the fall of dictator Suharto.

Vela Andapita, Jakarta – Twelve years have passed since Maria Catarina Sumarsih, 66, initiated the first Kamisan rally following the death of her son, Benardinus Realino Norma Irawan, a

Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch – While a former US President's visit preoccupied the New Zealand media this week, the state visit of the current president of Indonesia went mostly under

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit is taking place in Sydney on the 17-18 March.

A human rights activist has expressed frustration at omissions from reports by New Zealand diplomats about their visits to Indonesia's Papua region.

Sheany, Jakarta – The finalization of the current draft revisions to the criminal code, or KUHP, will have a serious impact on human rights in the archipelago, Usman Hamid, executive di

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesia failed to address past human rights violations despite promises from top officials and commitments by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, a new report on Thursda

Tim Mann – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein concluded a three-day visit to Indonesia last week with some blunt words about plans to revise the Cri

The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner says his office has been invited by Indonesia's government to visit Papua region, or West Papua.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply appreciates the visit to the Republic of Indonesia of Mr. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Amanda Hodge – The UN Human Rights chief has urged Indonesia not to go "backwards on human rights" by introducing laws banning sex outside marriage and gay sex, and warned of "rising le

Indonesia must clamp down on rising intolerance against the LGBT community, the UN human rights chief warned Wednesday, as the persecuted minority face a wave of arrests and parliament

Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday criticised proposals in Indonesia's parliament to criminalize gay sex and extramarital sex, saying such la

Sheany, Jakarta – The United Nations human rights chief said on Wednesday (07/02) that the proposed revisions to the Indonesian criminal code are "inherently discriminatory" and chided

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein did not talk about unresolved se

Sheany, Jakarta – The United Nations high commissioner for human rights said on Wednesday (07/02) that he will send a mission to Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, following rep

Tiffanie Turnbull, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesian human rights advocacy groups are "hopeful, but not optimistic" that the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner's upcoming visit

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Indonesia failed to address past human rights violations. The rights to freedom of expression, of peaceful assembly and of association continued to be arbitrarily restricted.

Victims of serious human rights violations committed during the Indonesian occupation (1975-1999) continued to demand justice and reparations.

Sheany, Jakarta – Roichatul Aswidah, former member of the National Commission on Human Rights, or Komnas HAM, said last week that efforts to boost the economy and strengthen national se

Jakarta – Human rights violations committed throughout 2017 would likely continue this year, largely due to the government's failure to consider the rights of the people in deliberating

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights, or Komnas HAM, will soon issue a reference standard for law enforcers and members of the public to exercise authority

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has called on the government to speed up the legal process of two persecution cases allegedly committed by

Kanis Dursin, Jakarta – Hundreds of Papuan students and activists held a protest in Jakarta on Dec.