Kanupriya Kapoor & Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta/Madiun – A chilling documentary about one of the worst massacres since World War Two is up for an Academy Award this weekend.

'When I showed my footage to the massacre survivors, many said: you are onto something important, keep filming the perpetrators.'

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Prodita Sabarini, Contributor, Washington, DC – Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer on Tuesday called on the US to acknowledge its role in Indonesia's communist pur

Shaun Tandon, Hong Kong – Anwar Congo makes no secret of the fact that he killed about 1,000 people with his bare hands, boasting about the methods he used to murder alleged communists

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to the Head of Bukittinggi District Court

Isabelle Arradon – It is always difficult to say when an armed conflict is truly "over".

Jakarta – The co-director of the film, "The Act of Killing" denied that it was a foreign effort to tarnish Indonesia's reputation in international eyes, saying a negative image does not

Miko Napitupulu – Muslim scholar Dawam Rahardjo was awarded Indonesia's annual Yap Thiam Hien prize for human rights in Jakarta on Thursday.

Paulina Quintao – Human Rights Activist, Joao Soares Pequinho, believes the Timor-Leste's government failed to implement the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child

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Josua Gantan – It could have been a historical moment for Indonesia. On Jan.

Nicole Jade Millane & Harriet Conron – The Indonesian government continues to waver in its response to violence and discrimination against minorities, despite the president's claim

Paulina Quintao – The Asian Federation for Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) composed by Nepal, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, El Salvador and Timor-Leste, urge the Timo

Jakarta – Indonesian women and religious minorities have faced heightened discrimination as a result of the government's failure to enforce human rights protections in 2013, Human Right

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Jakarta – The European Parliament's hearing on human rights in Papua, Indonesia, is an important opportunity to raise concerns and press for improvements in the area's grave human right

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) warned that 2014 could be an "emergency" year for rights violations.

"The European Parliament's hearing on Papua should spotlight the serious human rights challenges and the Indonesian government's needed reforms.

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Acclaimed documentary "The Act of Killing" was nominated for an Academy Award on Thursday.

Gemima Harvey – The suspicious death of a rebel leader is the latest in a long line of alleged human rights abuses.

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Paulina Quintao – The Timor-Leste government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MNEC) and the Indonesian Government intend to establish a commission to look into t

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Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Enforcement of the law and human rights remained shaky throughout 2013 in Aceh, a legal advocacy group says.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) says it has completed 5,234 investigations out of the 6,600 complaints it received throughout 2013.

Yeremia Sukoyo – Court charges and physical abuse topped the list for the most common threats against witnesses in criminal cases in Indonesia in 2013, a witness care body said.

Sydney – The indigenous struggle for liberation in West Papua on the western half of the island of New Guinea in the south-west Pacific, with the loss of thousands of lives, is far from

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) said on Thursday that the number of alleged human rights abuse cases in the country rose from 448 cases in

Andreas Harsono – Here's a seasonal snapshot from Indonesia's Aceh province: on 20 December, dozens of militant Islamists rallied outside one of the largest hotels in Banda Aceh, the pr

Alison Bevege – He was just a little kid, maybe six years old. Walking through the garden with his mother and two teenage aunties. Then the Indonesian soldiers came.

[An interview with Jeremy Bally, Pedalling for Papua campaigner, published by the Asian Human Rights Commission.]

Timor-Leste investigative journalist Jose Belo has been presented with one of the 2013 Sergio Vieira de Mello human rights awards by the President, Taur Matan Ruak.

Marni Cordell – Scores of unarmed civilians were tortured and killed and their bodies dumped at sea in a massacre by Indonesian security forces in West Papua 15 years ago, a "citizens'

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Indonesia is in a state of emergency regarding human rights violations, according to the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), the National Commissio

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, Malang, East Java – A museum built in honor of Munir Said Thalib, a prominent human rights activist assassinated in 2004, was officially opened on Sunday on what woul

Ezequiel Freitas – President of the Republic, Taur Matan Ruak (TMR), said the Caras Massacre that took place in 1983 was an event of great significance to the history of Timor-Leste bec

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On her trip to Indonesia to try and smooth relations with Jakarta over the spying scandal, our foreign minister should also be raising the crackdown on the recent peaceful rallies in We

Tunggul Wirajuda – For millions of East Timorese, Indonesia's 24-year occupation of their country seemed an interminable nightmare.

David Robie, Dili – On 28 November 1975, Timor-Leste made its fateful unilateral declaration of independence.

The Australia West Papua Association in Sydney congratulates Powes Parkop, the Governor of Port Moresby and the National Capital District on receiving the John Rumbiak Human Rights Defe

Amy Ripley – The respected East Timorese human rights organisation La'o Hamutuk is demanding that the Indonesian government finally be held accountable for their bloody 24-year occupati

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – "It was late at night in 1968 when a group of men barged into my boarding house and pointed their guns at me.

Thousands of Indonesian women trafficked to Hong Kong risk slavery-like conditions as domestic workers, with both governments failing to protect them from widespread abuse and exploitat

Truth and Justice are the foundations for developing democracy in Timor-Leste

November 12 is the 22nd anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre.