Index: ASA 21/035/2013

Jakarta – Indonesians living abroad under the grouping, the Indonesian Diaspora, have signed a petition asking law enforcers to bring members of the Anti-Communist Front (FAKI) to court

Deborah Snow – Two recent accounts by former Australian defence force personnel who worked in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya (now West Papua) in 1977 suggests there was ADF knowl

Yuliasri Perdani and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Yogyakarta Police on Tuesday denied that relatives of the victims of the 1965 anti-communist purge had been subjected to violence at

Bambang Muryanto and Bagus BT Saragih, Yogyakarta – A rowdy rally on Monday denouncing communism along with death threats – aimed at the heirs of those linked to the now-defunct Indones

Yogyakarta – Freedom of association in the era of reformasi (the reform process beginning in 1998) is, as it turns out, still little more than jargon.

Yogyakarta – Dozens of members of the Indonesian Anti-Communist Front (FAKI) disrupted a meeting involving the families of victims of the 1965 communist purge at the Santi Dharma Retrea

Three people were injured after a group of people who called themselves the Indonesian Anti-Communist Front attacked the families of victims of the 1965-66 purge of suspected communist

Pito Agustin Rudiana, Sleman – A social gathering by victims of the 1965 tragedy at the Santi Dharma Retreat in Godean sub-district, Sleman regency, Yogyakarta, was attacked by the Indo

Kate Lamb – Allegations of genocide, rape and napalm bombs dropped on the restive province of West Papua in the late 1970s are likely to be 'stonewalled' by the Indonesian government, a

Thea Cowie & Sacha Payne – A report claims Australia provided Indonesia with helicopters which were used to carry out 'genocidal' attacks in West Papua in the late 1970s.

Dessy Sagita & Rizki Amelia – Indonesia is responsible for a genocidal military operation carried out in Papua between 1977-1978, which killed more than 4,000 indigenous Papuans, in

Karen Barlow and staff – The Australian Department of Defence has rejected claims that Australian-supplied helicopters were used by Indonesia's military to kill Papuan civilians in the

Cathy Harper – An extensive new report has been released, containing graphic detail of the alleged murder, rape and torture of more than 4,000 Papuans by Indonesian military in the late

Oliver Milman – Helicopters supplied by Australia were used by Indonesia in a "genocidal" crackdown on civilians in West Papua in the 1970s, a new report has claimed.

Jenny Denton – Research into one of the most violent episodes in the history of West Papua claims that helicopters provided to Indonesia by the Australian government were used in milita

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Joseph Nevins – Among the casualties of the US government shutdown is President Barack Obama's trip to Indonesia for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC).

An Australian academic says West Papuans have been subject to a slow-motion genocide and the United Nations should step in.

Andreas Harsono – Markus Jerewon, Yuvensius Goo and Rofinus Yanggam came up with a novel method of breaking the chokehold the Indonesian government has long held on news about human rig

Camelia Pasandaran – Convicted murder Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto could walk free in a matter of months after the Supreme Court further reduced his 20-year prison sentence for the ass

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Aceh/Jijiem – Joining a rebellion is not a typical career move. Yet up to 26,000 people in Indonesia spent years working for a separatist rebellion that lasted nearly 30 years in Aceh.

Jenny Denton – Indonesia has been accused of using torture as a "mode of governance" in West Papua – security forces have committed at least one incident of torture, on average, every s

Kristian Lasslett – Barely two weeks into office and Australia's prime minister, Tony Abbott, has committed his government to upholding an appeasement policy that has seen Australia ent

Margie Mason, Jakarta, Indonesia – Everyone in Bulumulyo village knew the mass grave was there, but no one dared to visit.

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Director Joshua Oppenheimer has made his acclaimed documentary "The Act of Killing," based on Indonesia's 1965 anti-communist purge, available as a free download in the hope that the co

The exhumation of 17 people executed by the Indonesian military in 1984 in Fatudere, Adarai village of Uatolari (Viqueque).

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While the Australian PM is taking 20 prominent business leaders with him to Jakarta, the diplomatic tension over asylum-seekers will be hard to ignore.

The East Timor Judicial System Monitoring Program has released the English translation of its report on observations of a trial in the Dili District Court concerning alleged crimes agai

A consultation in Geneva has proposed political dialogue as the only way towards peace and stability in Tanah Papua, a province of Indonesia.

Jakarta – Following the official Dutch apology for a series of mass killings carried out by its colonial troops between 1945 and 1949, widows and relatives of those who were summarily e

Marni Cordell – West Papuan political leaders who met a boatload of Australian and West Papuan activists across the Indonesian sea border could face interrogation or torture at the hand

Bastiaan Scherpen – Almost 67 years after thousands of Indonesian men were summarily executed in South Sulawesi as part of a ruthless campaign to crush a rebellion against Dutch colonia

Dessy Sagita – It has been nine years since Munir Said Thalib was silenced by arsenic poisoning as he sat on a Garuda Indonesia flight, but justice for the murdered political activist c

AI Index: ASA 21/032/2013

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Jakarta – The Indonesian government is being called on to ratify the International Convention on Enforced Disappearance of Persons.

Jakarta – The long fight to uncover and moreover reconcile the 1965-66 affair is slowly starting to show results.

Fransisca Ria Susan, Jakarta – The kidnappings, forced disappearances and killing of more than 1 million Indonesians between 1965-1967 were not a tragedy, because they did not occur as

As people around the world mark the International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty International calls on the Indonesian President to stop delaying the establishment of a Human Rights Co

The People of Timor-Leste once again commemorate 30 August as the 14th anniversary of the popular consultation (1999-2013).

Ethan Harfenist – Director Joshua Oppenheimer will make his acclaimed documentary on Indonesia's 1965 communist purge "The Act of Killing," available as a free download in the hopes tha