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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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.

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.

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.

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Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – May 15, 1998. Hundreds of people flooded on to the two escalators and one stairway.

Erwin Cristianson, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said on Wednesday that it would once again seek to question presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto over

Palu – Human rights activists claim police officers are behind the recent two-day clash in Buol, Central Sulawesi, on April 19 and 20, saying the incident was not merely caused by aggri

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has turned down a proposal to meet with the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) to discuss the handling of cases relating to en

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Rio Kuswandi, Jakarta – Former army Special Forces (Kopassus) commander Prabowo Subianto is being urged to give an immediate clarification on the abduction of 13 activists abducted in 1

Rizka Diputra, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) is calling on official state institutions such as the National Human Rights Commission (Kom

The Australian Government should introduce laws that would minimise the risk of Australian policing or military assistance supporting human rights violators.

[A Joint Press Release by Franciscans International, the International Coalition for Papua, VIVAT International, Watch Indonesia!, and the West Papua Netzwerk.]

Bulukumba – Abdul Khalik remembers vividly the moment almost seven decades ago he saw his father being driven away from their remote Indonesian village by Dutch soldiers to be executed.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's decade in office has been marked by only patchy progress on human rights and Indonesia's next leader must urgently tackle ongoing violations and rep

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Jakarta - Indonesia's next leader must urgently tackle the ongoing human rights violations and repeal repressive and discriminatory laws, UK-based international NGO Amnesty Internationa

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Arya Dipa, Bandung – An association of human rights abuse victims' families said it hoped voters would take presidential hopefuls' background of human rights violations into serious con

Sixtus Harson, Jakarta – A human rights group has criticized the presidential candidacy of a former Indonesian general who has been accused of widespread human rights abuses in Timor Le

Once again, on 5-6 April, Christians will come together with the families of victims to commemorate the anniversary of the Liquisa Church Massacre.

Indah Setiawati and Corry Elyda, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration plans to establish a memorial site at a mass grave in Pondok Ranggon Cemetery in East Jakarta in remembrance of the

Jayapura – Two students who were arrested by the Police on Wednesday (2/4) for leading a demonstration demanding the release of Papuan political prisoners said they were mistreated in d

Such voices can't be silenced
Mouths can be shut
But who will be able to stop
Songs of concerns and questions from my soul's tongue

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Harry Jacques, Jakarta – Indonesia resumed executing death-row inmates in 2013 after a four-year moratorium, killing five people by firing squad in a "new secretive trend," a report by

Joe Cochrane, Jakarta, Indonesia – Prabowo Subianto, a former special forces commander, kicked off his party's campaign for legislative elections with a rally last weekend that the loca

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Jakarta – Candidates competing in the July 2014 presidential election will have an opportunity to explain to voters their positions on major human rights issues thanks to a new survey,