Index: ASA 57/002/2013

Yohanna Ririhena, Geneva – Members of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) said they would treat reports of Indonesia's human rights record, presented by NGOs, as essential

Yohanna Ririhena, Geneva – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) and representatives of Indonesia's NGOs are gathering in Geneva this week to assess the country's serious

According to several NGOs which are involved in the promotion of human rights in Papua, there has been no change in the human rights situation in Papua in the first one hundred days of

AI index: ASA 21/023/2013

Yohanna Ririhena, Jakarta – A human rights group coalition has urged the Indonesian government to be more open in reporting the country's human rights situation when it presents a repor

AHRC-PRL-012-2013

Today is the third day of the Development Partners Meeting in Timor-Leste.

A man in Indonesia's Papua province says he is currently on the run from the military after witnessing a massacre of Papuans reported last month.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Human rights groups have called on the United Nations special rapporteur on housing rights, Raquel Rolnik, to demand that the Indonesian government immedi

[An interview with Mugiyanto, a victim of enforced disappearance, published by the Asian Human Rights Commission.]

[An interview with Mugiyanto, a victim of enforced disappearance, published by the Asian Human Rights Commission.]

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to the President of the Republic of Indonesia

London – Two human rights lawyers from West Papua, Olga Hamadi and Gustaf Kawer, are today being honoured at a ceremony for the Lawyers for Lawyers Award in Amsterdam.

Gabriel Kereh – Amnesty International has decried a repressive human rights climate in Indonesia and a worrying lack of progress in addressing past abuses, in a report that is also the

Head of state and government: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Head of state: Jose Maria Vasconcelos (Taur Matan Ruak, replaced Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta in May)
Head of government: Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

The twenty first of May 1998 is celebrated by the Indonesians as the birth of reform in their country.

Rangga Prakoso – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) on Tuesday accused the Attorney General's Office of violating human rights in its handling of a bioremediation proj

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro claims the government is complying with the principles of the treaty underlying the International Criminal Court, even wi

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – It is now official that Indonesia will not ratify the Rome Statute for the accession to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the near future.

Jakarta – "I knew something was wrong," Hamidah, 57, said. Her son, 14-year-old Ahmad Zainuddin, or Udin, had never missed evening prayers, but that night, 7:15 p.m.

[Comments On the US Department of State's Annual Country Report On Human Rights for 2012 Concerning Indonesia/West Papua:

Amnesty International has called for an immediate halt to the execution of three men, expected imminently.

Margareth S.

Despite undergoing a dramatic democratic transformation over the last decade, a new report released on Tuesday by the United States Department of State maintains that Indonesia is still

Wiji Thukul disappeared 15 years ago this month, along with many others lost in the upheaval of the student-led protests that forced Suharto out of power.

Is Mujiarso, Jakarta – Even when he was a political fugitive, Wiji Thukul could still joke.

Michael Bachelard – Johanes Lokobal sits on the grass that cushions the wooden floor of his little, one-room house. He warms his hands at a fire set in the centre.

Jakarta – The sluggish pace of a police investigation has led the family of Safira Raudatul Janah, 14, a victim of a stray bullet in Jl.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has expressed serious concerns over the crackdown on mass demonstrations across Papua since Tuesday, which reportedly includes ar

Alex Rayfield – For many people around the world the first day in May is a time a celebration, a day to remember how ordinary people won the right to the eight hour working day.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Constitutional Court chief Akil Mochtar said on Tuesday there was no need to fret about Aceh's official flag, which resembles the flag of the now-defunct separati

Yuliasri Perdani and Ansyor Idrus, Jakarta/Palembang – The National Police say two senior generals have been sent to investigate the deadly clash on Tuesday between protesters and polic

Ansyor Idrus, Palembang – Residents from Muara Rupit district, Musi Rawas regency in South Sumatra were continuing to block the Trans-Sumatra Highway on Tuesday following bloody clashes

Farouk Arnaz – Four civilians were killed and 15 members of the police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) were injured after a demonstration in South Sumatra in favor of the creation of a new di

Jakarta – Media watchdogs say that the press must be at the forefront of preserving the public's collective memory of human rights abuses and pushing the Indonesian government to resolv

Laura Dawson, Gabriel Kereh & Tito Summa Siahaan – The specter of a resurgence in violence in Aceh looms large unless past rights abuses are properly addressed, a human rights group

The Indonesian government has said it aims to approve within a month a plan that would free up vast swathes of protected virgin rainforest on Sumatra island for commercial exploitation.

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta, Indonesia – An international rights group urged Indonesian authorities on Thursday to seek justice for victims of a separatist conflict in Aceh province that en

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Legislative Council (DPRA) is accelerating the deliberation of a provincial qanun (bylaw) to establish the Commission on Truth and Reconciliatio

Imran MA, Lhokseumawe – Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers and Sharia police (Wilayatul Hisbah) began conducted raids on motorcycle riders on the main roads of Lhokseumawe city in

Jakarta – Rights group the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has filed a report with the Indonesian Ombudsman complaining about the poor performance of th

Yohannie Linggasari – Rights activists have blasted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his failure to order a human rights tribunal set up to investigate the widespread abuses surro

Index: ASA 21/006/2013

The death of Malawian national Adami Wilson – Indonesia's first execution in four years – heightens the urgency for the government to end the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said on F

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The government will not set up an ad hoc human rights tribunal to prosecute those believed responsible for the 1998 kidnapping of activists in the near futur

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Hopes of seeing the generals allegedly responsible for the May 1998 riots dragged into an international rights tribunal have been dashed, after the Internati

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Five years after executing the three Bali bombers in 2008, Indonesia sent a drug convict to the firing squad on Thursday night, in a move human rights activi

Bagus BT Saragih, Headlines – Seven retired but politically wired Indonesian Military (TNI) generals held a meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the State Palace on Wednes