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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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[Q&A with Joshua Oppenheimer, the filmmaker who prodded gangsters into re-enacting US-backed, anti-Communist killing sprees.]

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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

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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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Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-127-2013

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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

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

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.