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Andreas Jakobsen – Denmark has since 2004 supported an Indonesian police academy (JCLEC) where the country's controversial elite unit Detachment 88 is being trained to fight terrorism.

Jakarta – Scores of demonstrators calling themselves Indonesia without Militarism held another demonstration in front of the General Elections Commission (KPU) on Jl.

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Hans Nicholas Jong and Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has answered public criticism of its failure to take a stand on the human rights

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The audience applauded after a young girl finished reading her poem to the accompaniment of a young male guitarist on Wednesday night.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa spoke out against the US ambassador to Indonesia on Monday for urging investigations into presidential candidate Prabowo Subia

A human rights advocacy group is calling for a new Indonesian government to end human rights abuses by previous governments, and bring those responsible to account.

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Yeremia Sukoyo – Indonesian voters must not be swayed by a recent statement by the US ambassador appearing to call for a rights probe into presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, says

A human rights advocacy group is calling for a new Indonesian government to end human rights abuses by previous governments, and bring those responsible to account.

Indonesia has implemented many positive changes during its transition to democracy in the past 16 years.

In a statement released today human rights groups urged the next government of Indonesia "to break with the past [and] fully and meaningfully address the legacy of impunity for past hum

Erwida Maulia & Made Arya Kencana, Jakarta/Denpasar – The US ambassador to Indonesia has come under fire after calling for a probe into presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's hum

Jakarta – A 10-year old boy, Markus Yernirkolaus, suddenly appeared in the middle of a Kamisan (Thursday Action) and gave a speech about human rights violations by presidential candidat

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Jakarta – A number of NGOs, united under the Coalition Against Forgetting Movement, have filed a report with the Elections Supervising Agency (Bawaslu) against the General Elections Com

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Kursi Istana, Jayapura – Human rights activists and organisations have launched the Movement Against Forgetting in Papua.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Former Indonesian Armed Forces (ABRI) commander Gen.

Jakarta – Human rights abuse allegations that have dogged Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto intensified Thursday when a former military chief confirmed the ex-general u

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho & SP/Yohannes Douglas, Jakarta – Presidential candidate and former special forces commander Prabowo Subianto declined to respond to former Army chief Wirant

Jakarta – Indonesia's last military commander under the strongman Suharto has confirmed that presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, a top Army general at the time, was indeed discharg

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – In a visit to Sumatra's northernmost province, the European Union's ambassador to Indonesia expressed concern over human rights abuses, against women in parti

There are renewed calls for United Nations monitors to be allowed in to Indonesia's troubled Papua provinces, to verify what human rights groups describe as gross violations.

The United Nations Human Rights Council's current session has heard concerns that freedom of expression and peaceful assembly continue to deteriorate in Indonesia's Papua region.

Jakarta – A group of nongovernmental organizations plan to file a joint lawsuit challenging former special forces commander Prabowo Subianto's presidential candidacy on human rights gro

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto reportedly revealed that former president Soeharto ordered him to kidnap pro-democracy activists in May 1998, which saw him dismissed f

SP/Hotman Siregar & Abdul Qowi Bastian, Jakarta – Indonesia should not be burdened by its dark history, it should be able to close the gloomy chapter in order to move on, presidenti

Rights activists have slammed the national election organizing body for not including human rights as one of the topics to be tabled in a series of debates between the two presidential

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has pledged to make past human rights abuse cases his priority if he is elected president.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has filed a request to the Central Jakarta District Court to force Maj. Gen.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – "I am a supporter of Munir. And who murdered Munir? Where is the murderer now?

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's past is proving to be his Achilles' heel, with activists pointing to allegations of rights abuses and the unceremoni

Angela Dewan, Jakarta – Mugiyanto recalls the horror of being abducted by soldiers, blindfolded, beaten and electrocuted as a student activist fighting to end the long rule of Indonesia

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Heratetty will never forget the day she received news that her son was shot and killed during a student-led rally demanding the resignation of then-pres

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Jakarta – Indonesian lawyers said Wednesday they have filed a lawsuit aimed at hauling Prabowo Subianto before a rights court over the abduction of student activists.

The global activist network Anonymous has launched a campaign to raise attention on censorship and the killings of indigenous West Papuans in Indonesia's eastern region.

George Roberts, Indonesia – A group of Indonesian lawyers has launched a court challenge aimed at forcing one of the country's presidential candidates to stand trial over allegations of

David Brunnstrom – The emergence of Prabowo Subianto as a serious contender in Indonesia's election this week means the United States faces the awkward possibility of having to welcome

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Both teams in the Indonesian presidential election have human rights concerns hanging over their candidates according to the global organisation Human Right

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang, East Java – Showing further signs of advanced age, Dionesius Utomo Rahardjo, 69, and his wife Genoveva Misiati, 66, are no longer as outspoken as they were

Jakarta – Relatives of the victims of the May 1998 tragedy expressed their sincere appreciation on Sunday as the Jakarta administration began the construction of a memorial to their lov

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – An Indonesian presidential advisor has vowed to press the government into setting up an ad hoc human rights court to try those responsible for the forced disappear

Indah Setiawati and Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Even after 16 years, the bitter memories of the May 1998 tragedy are still an open wound in the hearts of survivors and families of the victim

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Former student activists are still looking for their friends who went missing when rioting first broke out on a campus in Medan on May 4, 1998, spreading to man

Jakarta – A flag-raising ceremony at Trisakti University has been held in commemoration of the 1998 shootings that occurred on the campus.