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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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 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

Jakarta – Responding to the damning reports from the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) stating that the 1965 anti-communist purge and the early 1980s killings are gross v

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.

Ezra Sihite – The House of Representatives Ethics Council says it will study a report filed by a human rights group objecting to Deputy Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso's statement that the v

Ezra Sihite – The government is being urged to form a task force to investigate and solve past cases of human rights violation.

Ezra Sihite – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence has reported House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso to the House Ethics Council over a state

Bahri Kurniawan, Jakarta – Commemorating 16 years since the attack on the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) headquarters on July 27, 1996, banners and a billboard filled the former site

Jakarta – Victims of human rights violations and their relatives have denounced Deputy House Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso for making negative comments about human rights investigations.

Jakarta – Sumardi, 44, a Karawang resident says the days when Karawang villagers repeatedly found bodies from the penembakan misterius (mysterious shootings), or Petrus, in the area of

Markus Junianto, Rangga Prakoso & Viriya Paramita – Human rights activists on Wednesday lambasted remarks made by House of Representatives deputy speaker Priyo Budi Santoso, who sai

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to follow-up on the findings of the National Commission on Human Rights (K

Rangga Praksoso, Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite a landmark ruling from the National Commission on Human Rights on Monday confirming that there were serious human r

Ismira Lutfia – For the first time on Tuesday, a government agency confirmed what many people believe: that the mysterious petrus killings of the early 1980s, in which hundreds, perhaps

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) announced on Tuesday that the summary execution-style killings between 1982 and 1985, known locally as penembakan misteriu

Rangga Prakosa – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered the attorney general to follow up on the National Commission on Human Rights' recent report on human rights violations du

Rangga Prakoso – The chairman of the Public Prosecution Commission said on Tuesday that he would question Attorney General Basrief Arief about why his office had such a difficult time i

Ronna Nirmala – The National Commission on Human Rights has called the orgy of violence that shook the country in 1965 following a failed coup attempt blamed on the communists a serious

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Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The trial of Buchtar Tabuni, 32, human rights activist and leader of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), began at the Jayapura District Court.

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr will meet today with his Indonesian counterpart, Marty Natalegawa, after vowing over the weekend that his country was cognizant of human rights issu

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Subang, west java – The government's long-discussed plan to launch a massive food estate in Merauke, Papua in a bid to boost the nation's food production is facing uncertainty amid land

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The United States Ambassador to Indonesia Scot A.

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and the Families of Missing Persons Association (IKOHI) demanded that the Indonesian Ombudsman remind Pres

Jakarta – A human rights advocacy body has called on the government to sign and ratify an anti-torture protocol in a show of its commitment to fighting all human rights violations.

Jakarta – The commemoration of the abortive coup blamed on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) is still a few months away, but former political prisoners always remember Sept.

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) claims it has located 17 mass graves in Central Java where suspected communists murdered during the 1965 p

Jakarta – The cycle of violence in Papua has deep roots back in the earliest days of Indonesia's history as a nation.

Police in East Timor have uncovered a mass grave of 52 people at the government palace in Dili, with initial examinations suggesting the bodies are not Timorese, an official said Tuesda

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Jakarta – Twenty four bodies were recovered on Wednesday from a mass grave that was accidentally found in the garden of the office of Timor Leste's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao in Dili

Banjir Ambarita & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jayapura – A day after the president described the scale of violence in Papua as "small," a coalition of Papuan churches called the situa

Jakarta – Humanitarian Solidarity for Papua (Skup) is urging all government institutions to end the stigmatisation of the Papuan people as separatists in responding to developments in W

Countries should be asking Indonesia hard questions about why over the past four years violence and discrimination against religious minorities is getting worse, and why Indonesia conti

Vitalis Yogi Trisna, A. Wisnubrata, Jakarta – West Papua is a region of Indonesia that is extraordinarily rich in natural resources and culture.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – Complacency by the authorities is allowing a spate of shooting incidents in Papua to go unchecked and unsolved, underscoring President Susil

Information has been received from human rights sources on Yapen Island alleging that major security sweeps and blockades of villages home to non-violent political activists are causing

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