Jakarta, Indonesia – TAPOL, a UK-based human rights watchdog, has urged Indonesia to address the 1965 Communist purge, as failure to do so would result in continued community divisions,

Ronna Nirmala & Bayu Marhaenjati – Indonesia emerged from the chaos of the 1965 communist purge, and survived the turbulence of the 1998 reformation, but the two events showed that

Farouk Arnaz & Jonathan Vit – Papua Police arrested seven members of the pro-independence West Papua National Committee (KNPB) on Saturday in connection with an alleged bomb plot th

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A victim of the 1965 anticommunist purges in Medan, North Sumatra, Astaman Hasibuan, raised his voice in protest against the controversial film The Act of Killi

Bambang Muryanto – For the first time, a state-sponsored investigation has concluded that the 1965-1966 killings following the 1965 alleged aborted coup was a "gross human rights violat

Ati Nurbaiti – Despite unresolved debates on the details of the power struggle of the 1960s, the arbitrary killings and the detention of hundreds of thousands of people in the mid-1960s

Hyginus Hardoyo – The declaration by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) that the 1965 purge of communists and their supporters was a gross violation of human rights im

Margareth S.

Margareth S.

Margareth S.

Presi Mandari – At 72, Sri Sulistyawati still remembers the day when two Indonesian soldiers placed a wooden plank across her belly and used her body as a see-saw, before she fainted fr

UA: 273/12 Index: ASA 21/039/2012

Margareth S.

Jakarta – Rights groups have blasted the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for doing very little to solve past human rights violations, despite being in power for alm

Ismira Lutfia – The Human Rights Working Group has lamented Indonesia's refusal to accept specific recommendations to give foreign journalists access to Papua and to invite the UN's Spe

Jim Elmslie – Allegations that Australia is funding death squads in West Papua have brought the troubled province back to Australian attention.

Margareth S.

Oral statement under item 6

Margareth S.

Ismira Lutfia – The Aceh provincial legislature's decision to further delay the setting up of a truth and reconciliation commission is a major setback to end impunity in the region, a l

Index: ASA 21/036/2012

Jakarta – Families and victims of the Tanjung Priok riot urged the government to pay compensation to those affected by the violence in North Jakarta in 1984 that claimed 23 lives.

Margareth S.

The government's failure to bring to justice all parties responsible for the killing of prominent human rights activist Munir Said Thalib raises serious concerns about Indonesia's willi

Ulma Haryanto – Friday marked the eight-year anniversary of the death of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, but his struggle lives on in a new generation of activists.

Ulin Yusron & Ulma Haryanto – A small girl ran around on Thursday as dozens of her adult counterparts staged a protest to commemorate those kidnapped and killed in a string of unres

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – As the nation observed the eighth anniversary of the murder of Munir Said Thalib, people urged the government to launch a new investigation into the killin

Jayapura – At a time when the media is busily reporting about plans for a dialogue between Papua and Jakarta, following the visit to Papua by the Presidential Consultative Council under

On the eve of her visit to Timor-Leste, the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) urged Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to commit the United States to support justice

5 September 2012

Ms. Hillary Rodman Clinton
United States Secretary of State
Your Excellency,

West Papua Advocacy Team
c/o PO Box 21873
Brooklyn, NY 11202-1873
wpat@igc.org
+1- 575-648-2078

ALRC-CWS-21-05-2012

Human Rights Council

Twenty-first session, Agenda Item 6

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S.

Margareth S.

Ismira Lutfia – According to data collected by the National Commission on Human rights from 2007-2012, the National Police tops the list for public reports on human rights abuses in Ind

Philip Jacobson – There has been talk of an arms deal between the United States and Indonesia. Reportedly on the table are eight Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters.

Jayapura – Brutal scenes occurred at a highland students dormitory in Abepura early on Sunday night (26 August) as a massive assault was carried out on students from the Liborang Asrama

Ezra Sihite – One month after Golkar Party deputy chairman Priyo Budi Santoso stirred controversy by asking the nation to forget the 1965 massacre, senior party official Leo Nababan cal

Ezra Sihite/Wisnu Cipto – Mass organisations (Ormas) that are part of the Pancasila Front are ready to oppose any follow up on the recommendations by the National Human Rights Commissio

Agus Rahmat, Jakarta – One of the Golkar Party's mass organisations, Kosgoro 1975 (Mutual Assistance Cooperative) is opposing the recommendation by the National Human Rights Commission

Jakarta – GP Anshor, the youth wing of Indonesia's Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), has said that the government should not deliver a public apology to the victims of the 1965 purge.

Margareth S.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) announced on Tuesday that the Lapindo mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, was a human rights violation and that the oil and ga

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says East Timor is ready for UN peacekeeping troops to withdraw as planned by the end of 2012.

Aditya Revianur, Jakarta – The Nahdlatul Ulama's Central Board (PBNU) with the support of retired army officers and mass organisations is strongly opposed any form of apology by the gov

Aditya Revianur, Jakarta – The chairperson of the Anshor Youth Movement (the youth wing of the Islamic mass organisation Nahdlatul Ulama), Nusron Wahid, says that the government does no

Viriya Paramita – A prominent human rights group accused police in East Nusa Tenggara on Monday or torturing 17 people suspected of killing a police officer.

James Balowski, Jakarta – After a three-year investigation and testimonies from 349 witnesses, Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has declared that the systemati

Despite a recommendation from the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) to follow up on the 1965 rights violations, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) says it is unlikely an

Rangga Prakoso – All state institutions are responsible for addressing past human rights violations in the absence of an official rights tribunal, a leading advocate said on Monday.