Jakarta – The National Police (Polri) committed the highest number of human rights violations this year, according to a recent finding by the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo's administration has failed to promote human rights since taking office more than a year ago, according to a survey by the Setara

Today, celebrating international human rights day, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) expresses its concern about various forms of human rights violations still occurring in Indon

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A collective of Maori and Pacific women in South Auckland will today raise the Morning Star flag in a show of solidarity for freedom in West Papua.

Jakarta – Human rights groups have called on local administrations to apply a rights-friendly city concept as an attempt to prevent more human rights abuses in the future.

Jakarta – The New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has praised the decision by a military court in Papua last week to convict two soldiers for their role in the deaths o

Phelim Kine – Something remarkable happened last week in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province.

Victor Mambor, Semarang, Jubi – Vice Chairman of Advisory Council of the Union Churches of Indonesia, the Rev.

In its latest report, the ICP brings together the research of 25 organisations and experts from in

Robin Williams – A young West Papuan currently in Australia is shooting video rather than bullets in his battle to fight the intimidation, torture and massacres that are regular occurrences in his

October 2015 marked one year of Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Vice President Jusuf Kalla's administration, since being sworn into office on 20 October 2014.

Human rights groups criticize the implementation of a tougher version of the Qanun Jinayat – Aceh's Islamic Criminal Bylaw, which takes effect Friday – and call on the central government to push fo

Washington, DC – United States President Barack Obama and Indonesian President Joko Widodo should address increasing threats to women's rights and religious freedom in Indonesia when th

Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Time: 9am-12noon PST
Where: Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043.

Jayapura, Jubi – A human rights group condemned Jayapura Municipality Police for mishandling a peace protest to demand justice over the Paniai Case, 8 December 2014.

Tonga's Government has responded to Indonesia's accusation that claims by Tonga's Prime Minister at the United Nations were misleading.

Jayapura, Jubi – Papua Military Chief Maj General Hinsa Siburian declined to disclose details on proposal to form of a task force on peace in Papua by the State Intelligence Agency (BIN).

Galuh Wandita and Tegan Molony – Christina from Yogyakarta was arrested by military police in 1965 and again in 1968 and held for ten years without charge.

Nursyahbani Katjasungkana and Saskia E. Wieringa – To achieve true reconciliation we need to have an in depth enquiry by the legal apparatus, if we can still get clear proof.

Semarang, Jubi – A Papuan human rights activist, Yones Douw, urged the central government to withdraw troops from Papua.

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Jakarta – The Indonesian government is adamant it will not issue a formal apology to the victims of a state-sponsored anti-communist purge 50 years ago that left up to three million people dead.

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has said that the uncontrollable spread of air pollution from forest fires in Sumatra could be categorized as a human rights violation by the st

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Jakarta – The government says that it is paying close attention to the murder case of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib but stresses that it is not its responsibility to find the mastermind b

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The wife of slain human rights defender Munir Said Thalib, Suciwati, on Sunday called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to establish an independent team to find the mastermi

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Jakarta – Activists called for an overarching judicial approach to Indonesia's past human rights violations at conference on Friday, saying reconciliation wasn't enough to heal wounds.

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Defense minister Ryamizard Ryacudu says that the government does not need to apologise to the families of former Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) members, saying that the PKI killed seven generals

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Hery H Winarno – Hundreds of people took to the streets to demonstrate in front of the Grahadi building in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya on the afternoon of Thursday August 13.

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has indicated that the Indonesian government has no intention of prosecuting perpetrators of past human rights abuses, in a state of the nation address that only bri

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) should take necessary and appropriate action to prevent human rights abuses by its personnel and furthermore hold perpetrators accountable, Human Rights Watc

Diah Harni Saputri, Maria Rita, Jakarta - Human rights activists, academics and journalists have initiated the formation of a people's tribunal into the 1965 mass killings.

Indonesia is still failing tens of thousands affected by the devastating Aceh conflict, leaving family members and victims in the dark about the fate of loved ones and without justice,

Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) announced on Monday that it had found four human rights violations during a clash instigated by a Christian group affiliated with the Eva

Aulia Bintang Pratama, Jakarta – A national meeting of the Institute for the Study of the 1965-1966 Massacres (YPKP 65) that was to be held mid next week in the Central Java city of Salatiga has be

Raditya Pradipta, Jakarta – A seminar on 1965 massacre in Salatiga, Central Java, was cancelled following an act of intimidation and terror.

Jakarta – The Jakarta State Administrative Court has rejected a lawsuit against the release of Pollycarpus Budihari Prijanto, who was previously convicted of the murder of human rights activist Mun

Jakarta – For Budiman Sudjatmiko, the memory is still fresh of the massacre on July 27, 1996, at the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI)'s offices on Jl. Diponegoro in Menteng, Central Jakarta.

Faiz Nashrillah, Jakarta – Chairman of human rights watchdog group Setara Institute Hendardi, said on Saturday, July 25, 2015, that the roots of Tolikara incident are injustice and continued discri

Washington (ETAN/Pacific Media Watch) – The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) has called for action over what it describes United States support for mass violence and genocide in Indon

Cara Buckley – In the Oscar-nominated 2013 documentary "The Act of Killing" and now in a companion film, "The Look of Silence," an especially chilling moment comes during the closing credits: In li

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – At least 75 diocesan priests from five dioceses in the West Papua region have voiced concern over the treatment of the Papuan people that has spurred various acts of violence

Jeremy Kutner, Palu, Indonesia – A half-century after the massacre of hundreds of thousands of suspected Communists and sympathizers, Indonesia has shown little interest in reckoning with the event