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

SP/Carlos Paath – The House of Representatives is still waiting to see if the government's human rights watchdog can resolve an internal dispute before it is forced to take over the bod

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The killing of eight Indonesian soldiers in two separate incidents in Papua late last month was the bloodiest attack on security forces in the Indonesian province for two years.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Human Rights defenders suspect the government's recent initiative to hold discussions on the possibility to open human rights tribunals were politically moti

Andjarsari Paramaditha, Jakarta – Bejo Untung was a 17-year-old Indonesian schoolboy when armed soldiers came to his village in 1965, forcing him on the run for years until he was caugh

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The party of retired military commander Wiranto says it has no objection to a government plan to set up a human rights court that could deal with past cases i

Jakarta – A senior People's Conscience Party (Hanura) politician says he will not stop the government from forming a tribunal to probe alleged human rights violations involving the part

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SP/Carlos Paath & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives has threatened to take over the country's main human rights body unless it can resolve a deeply polarizing

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Jakarta – Human rights activists have slammed the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) for deciding to shorten the commission's chairmanship term from two-and-a-half years t

Competitive, credible, and fair local elections in Jakarta and the province of West Kalimantan in 2012 underscored the ongoing transition from decades of authoritarian rule in Indonesia

Hayley Davis – Indonesia must do more to defend minority rights and free imprisoned activists to set an example for other consolidating democracies in the wake of the Arab Spring, New Y

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Legislators' recommendation for an ad hoc human rights court to be set up to probe past rights violations will likely be discussed in an upcoming meeting betw

Rangga Prakoso – The Attorney General's Office says it will work with the national rights commission to direct the latter's constant attempts to get prosecutors to open an inquest into

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) went to the National Police headquarters on Friday to remind the police force to uphold human rights principles in dealing with extr

Farouk Arnaz – The new national human rights chief has vowed to work closely with police to address concerns about excessive use of force during ongoing counterterrorism raids in the Ce

The West Papua Advocacy Team is deeply concerned about the Government of Indonesia's unilateral decision to restrict the planned visit of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the pr

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Farouk Arnaz & Banjir Ambarita – A gunman shot at a member of the Indonesian Armed Forces and a civilian at a market in Puncak Jaya, Papua, on Thursday, killing the civilian and ser

Ronna Nirmala – Indonesia will pay more attention to human rights violations this year because the United Nations will assess the country's commitment in protecting civil and political

Grace Susetyo – Joshua Oppenheimer's controversial documentary "The Act of Killing" has attracted an overwhelming response since debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last

Rangga Prakoso – The Attorney General's Office plans to examine alleged gross human rights violations in 1965 and the killings of civilians by snipers from 1982 to 1985.

Antonia Timmerman & SP/Erwin Cristianson – Rights advocates on Saturday gave a poor review of Indonesia's performance in 2012 in terms of tackling corruption and securing human righ

Jakarta – Investigations into past human rights abuses are unlikely to be launched in the near future as the Attorney General's Office (AGO) continues to debate technicalities in the pr

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The national Timorese Alliance for an International Court (ANTI) and Amnesty International demand the United Nations (UN) together the International Court (IC) bring justice to authors

Antonia Timmerman – Indonesian authorities once again failed to address a host of significant human rights offenses in 2012 as abuses against religious and ethnic minorities, the poor a

There was a significant increase in the intensity of the conflicts and violence in Papua between August 2011 and December 2012.

Three former militia members and a former commander of the Besi Merah Putih (BMP: "Red White Iron in Indonesian) were imprisoned by the Dili District Court for between six and sixteen y

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – A London-based political-risk consultancy has cited Indonesia in its newly released Human Rights Atlas 2013 as a country with an "extreme" risk of human rig

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – Victims of serious human rights violations are demanding the government restore their good name and straighten out history with regard to the outrage

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Victims of the 1965 coup blamed on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) have praised a documentary on the alleged killings that took place in the coup's afterma

Jakarta – Mining and plantation companies are among the actors that should be held responsible for numerous human rights abuses in the country, according to a National Commission on Hum

Despite the large number of people who disappeared during the 24-year Indonsesian occupation, Timor-Leste has not ratified the Missing Persons Convention unlike other nations like Malay

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Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has named the police and companies as the top human rights violators in the country this year.

Ainur Rohmah and Bambang Muryanto, Semarang/Yogyakarta – International Human Rights Day, which fell on Monday, was marked with rallies staged by marginalized communities throughout the

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Ronna Nirmala & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Hundreds of human rights activists gathered in Jakarta on Saturday to commemorate the 47th birthday of slain activist Munir Said Thalib and u

Jakarta – It appears that fans of English singer and songwriter Sting expect more than just a few songs during his upcoming Jakarta concert next Saturday.

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – In advance of the birthday of Munir Said Thalib, his family has launched a campaign to push the government to resolve the murder of the slain human rights a

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Thousands of people gathered on Sunday in front of the grave of Munir Said Thalib, a prominent human rights champion who was killed eight years ago but whose mur

Kanis Dursin – At the age of 82, former Indonesian political detainee Mudjayin wonders if he will ever see justice served.

Victims of alleged human rights violations in Indonesia, a country where human rights courts set up in 2000 have yet to convict a single case, are facing an uphill battle to bring perpe

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