Surabaya – Retired TNI (Indonesian military) general Kivlan Zen says that a plan by the government of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla to apologise to former Indonesian

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Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The government has said that a 15-member committee tasked with investigating past human rights abuses will be ready shortly after the Idul Fitri holiday.

Local human rights law enforcement is not optimal, with law enforcers acting only in the name of security and public order, a report released by the National Commision on Human Rights (Komnas HAM)

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National – Despite progress as one of the world's biggest democracies, Indonesia's law enforcement is still substandard and rampant with human rights violations, a report by the US government state

Jakarta – The US' latest report on human rights practices has listed the Indonesian police's alleged unlawful torture of suspects in the Jakarta International School (JIS) sexual assault case as a

Jakarta – The families of May 1998 tragedy victims filed a judicial review of the 2006 human rights tribunal law with the Supreme Court to seek justice.

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The families of the political activists who disappeared in connection to the May 1998 riots have asked the Constitutional Court, or MK, for a judicial review on the

Michael Bachelard's – On a sunlit afternoon in the tiny village of Lolat, I ask a local school teacher, Natani Kobak, what subject he teaches.

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Jakarta – A number of NGOs and families of victims of gross human rights violations have criticized the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), which is supporting and promoting the estab

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), a human rights NGO, has lambasted the government's recent decision to opt for a non-judicial mechanism to resolve pas

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration has decided to establish a non-judicial mechanism to resolve past human rights abuses in the absence of solid ground on w

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has offered a permanent solution for all unresolved human rights abuses through reconciliation.

Kennial Caroline Laia & Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Human rights activists on Friday lambasted Attorney General H.M.

Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – Members of the People's Consultative Assembly, or MPR, on Monday demanded President Joko Widodo address historic human rights abuses.

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The families of those who died in the May 1998 riots, as well those who survived, expressed relief on Wednesday that a monument marking the unresolved violence had finally b

London (Amnesty International/Pacific Media Watch) – Dozens of individuals have been arbitrarily arrested and tortured or otherwise ill-treated by Timor-Leste security forces as part of security op

Jakarta – Kusmiyati, 51, showed photos of the funeral for her 15-year-old son, Mustofa bin Topik, who died in the Central Plaza shopping mall fire – now Citra Mall – in Klender, East Jakarta, on Ma

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said on Wednesday it was probable that seven unresolved gross human rights violations, including the Talangsari case, would be settled via non-judicial

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has criticized the state's inability to uncover the perpetrators behind the May 1998 tragedy and to make them responsi

Church leaders, human rights organisations, academics and international observers have gathered in the capital of the European Union, Brussels, to discuss the human rights situation in Papua.

Jayapura, Jubi – Amidst intimidation, illegal arrests, disappearances, torture and killings in Tanah Papua resulting from tensions between the Indonesian authorities and the Papuan pro-liberation g

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has called for both judicial settlement and reconciliation for the country's seven major cases of human rights violations.

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Jakarta – Amnesty International has welcomed naming of a street in The Hague after the slain Indonesian human rights defender Munir Said Thalib, the rights organization said in a press release.

Hendra Pasuhuk – A seminar by the International People's Tribunal (IPT1965) titled "Indonesia's 1965 Massacre: Unveiling The Truth, Demanding Justice" that was held in the Den Haag on April 10 on t

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Dutch government's decision to name a street after the late human rights campaigner Munir Said Thalib could serve as a reminder that the Indonesian government has

Amy McQuire – There is a silent genocide in his homeland of West Papua, independence leader Benny Wenda says, but it is slowly becoming difficult for the world to ignore.

Jayapura, Jubi – At least 150 students and youths rallied in front of the National Human Rights Commission Papua Representative Office on Tuesday (7/4/2015) urging it to set up a team to investigat

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Jakarta – A bicycle path is set to be officially inaugurated in The Hague to commemorate the prominent Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, who was murdered in 2004 on his way to the

Jakarta – Human rights activists in West Sulawesi have denounced police for attempting to stop a screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary film "The Look of Silence" in Mamuju.

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Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Jakarta State Administrative Court held its first hearing on Monday of a petition challenging the decision to release Pollycarpus Budihari Prijanto, the convicted murdere

Loren Bell, Mongabay-Indonesia correspondent – Indonesia's indigenous population has suffered a long history of human rights violations says a report to be released by the country's National Commis

Ari Susanto, Yogyakarta/Solo – The national commission for women's protection has called on the government to acknowledge as a national tragedy the mass rape of ethnic Chinese women during the May

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Sleman Police are hunting a student in Yogyakarta alleged to be behind the Wednesday's screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's Senyap (The Look of Silence) documentary

Bastiaan Scherpen, Jakarta – The Dutch state has to compensate not only widows, but also the children of men murdered during a bloody crackdown on Indonesians resisting colonial rule in South Sulaw

Ari Susanto, Yogyakarta – Islamic radical groups in Yogyakarta attempted to storm a screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary film "Senyap" ("The Look of Silence") at Sunan Kalijaga State Islam

The United Nations special rapporteur on torture has criticised the Indonesian government's breakup of demonstrations in West Papua last year, saying it breached international conventions on tortur

Jakarta – Legislators, historians and human rights activists have hailed a local military commander's move to have his soldiers in Semarang, Central Java, watch "The Look of Silence" by award-winni

Semarang – Hundreds of members of the military command in Central Java's capital, Semarang, attended the screening of "Senyap" ("The Look of Silence") last week by award-winning American director J

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo, already under increasingly heavy fire over the imminent execution of 11 drug convicts, on Wednesday was presented with a lengthy to-do list courtesy of Amnesty Inte

Jakarta – A seminar held to discuss accessibility to health services for victims of Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purge was disrupted by Indonesia's most notorious hardline Islamic group on Tu

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has slammed the disbanding of meeting of victims of human rights violations in West Sumatra on Sunday February 22.