Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Today, 85-year-old Mbah Pujiati will do what she has done every Thursday since Jan.

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Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Members of House of Representatives' Commission III on legal affairs and laws, human rights and security opposed the proposal to endorse a bill that would gr

The chairman of DAP, the Papuan Traditional Council, Forkorus Yaboisembut, is reported as saying that the process of elimination of the Melanesian Race which is currently turning the in

Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) is pushing for corporations, both national and multi-national, to be deemed as parties that can also be held liable for human

Ina Parlina – A coalition of NGOs has challenged the government with its own version of the state secrecy bill, saying this one was more "humane" and the government's one posed a threat

Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday demanded a review of the increasing numbers of discriminatory bylaws being enacted by regional governments throughout

Indonesian police said on Thursday that four officers would be charged over the "unforgivable" gang rape of a 15-year-old girl in Papua province.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Jayapura Police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr.

Heru Andriyanto – Activists on Tuesday said the Attorney General's Office should now have enough ammunition to launch further legal action against former top intelligence official Muchd

Banjir Ambarita – The family of a female detainee who was forced to perform oral sex on three officers at the Jayapura Police's detention center has reported the case to the National Co

Suciwati, the wife of murdered human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, is planning to issue a case review request to the Supreme Court on her civil case against PT Garuda Indonesia, th

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – The United Nations Security Council has urged East Timor to stop granting impunity for serious crimes as it extended the stay of the UN mission in the country.

A West Papuan student activist says the dialogue over self-determination aspirations is still very much alive among young West Papuans through social media like Facebook.

The ramifications of the fast moving events in Libya and the middle east could be felt as far away as Papua in Indonesia, a Sydney Conference has been told.

Arientha Primanita – The Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a contentious decree governing the use of wiretaps, calling it a violation of human rights and making it more diffi

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Jakarta – Indonesia's Judicial Commission has urged national flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia to comply with a Supreme Court verdict ordering the payment of compensation to Suciwati, th

Nivell Rayda & Farouk Arnaz – The Indonesian police's abysmal human rights record took yet another hit on Monday with the revelation that almost a quarter of all human rights compla

Ulma Haryanto – The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by flag carrier Garuda Indonesia and upheld an earlier ruling ordering the airline to pay damages to the widow of slain ri

The Supreme Court has rejected national flagship carrier PT Garuda Airlines' appeal in the case of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib's murder.

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Biak – The traditional Papuan community in Biak reported the current social and political situation in Papua to the first secretary for political affairs at the US embassy, Melanie Higg

Jakarta – A joint report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Indonesian Human Rights Watch (Imparsial) and the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violenc

Jakarta – The political events of 1965 are estimated to have cost the lives of millions of people.

The chairman of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in Jayapura, Victor Mambor, has called on the press in Papua to regularly monitor cases of human rights violations in Papua

Jayapura – Although Law 21/2001 on Special Autonomy (OTSUS) provides for the establishment of a human rights court in Papua, the fact is that this has not been done even though OTSUS is

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), an international human rights NGO with 164 member leagues across the world, together with KontraS and Imparsial, two leading Indone

A coalition of groups in Timor-Leste is urging the United Nations Security Council "to take concrete, effective actions to end impunity for those who directed and committed crimes again

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Dessy Sagita & AFP – Although the sentences handed down to soldiers found guilty of torturing indigenous Papuans have been roundly criticized for being too light, observers are now

Mathew Pennington, Washington – The US military is concerned over the light jail sentences given to Indonesian troops caught on video torturing men in the restive eastern region of Papu

AHRC-STM-023-2011 - Joint Statement by the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) in Indonesia and the Asian Human Rights Commission.

The Indonesian government has come under renewed criticism over alleged torture in West Papua after a military tribunal sentencing three soldiers to between eight and ten months prison

Washington – The US says Indonesia must hold its armed forces accountable for rights violations after three soldiers accused of torture received only 8 to 10 month jail terms.

Banjir Ambarita, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Nivell Rayda, Indonesia – A military tribunal in Papua that handed light sentences to three soldiers involved in torturing two civilians

Nethy Dharma Somba and Bagus BT Saragih, Jayapura/Jakarta – In what one rights activist called a "miscarriage of justice", a military tribunal sentenced three soldiers to eight to 10 mo

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Three soldiers who tortured two Papuan men were yesterday handed prison sentences of less than a year and will be allowed to continue their careers, despite assura

The West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT), East and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and TAPOL condemn the Indonesian government's failure to hold Indonesian military personnel responsible for

The Australian Greens have called for the Government to cut all military ties with Indonesia in response to light jail terms handed down yesterday to Indonesian soldiers who tortured tw

Amnesty International has criticised the trial and sentences handed to Indonesian soldiers who were filmed abusing Papuan prisoners.

Peter Alford, Jakarta – Three Indonesian soldiers have been sentenced to short prison terms over the torture of two Papuans, bringing an unsatisfactory close to another discreditable ep

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The light sentences sought for soldiers who tortured two Papuans, coupled with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's dismissal of the torture as "a minor incident"

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Activists have lambasted "lenient" sentences sought for three soldiers accused of torturing two Papuan men, but the military has urged the public to reserve j

In a statement that may hurt his image as a champion of democracy, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Friday that a vicious torture incident in Papua that triggered global outrage

Jakarta – Human rights activists in Papua deem the president's claim that no gross human rights violations occurred in Papua under his administration as a complete farce.

Armando Siahaan & Nivell Rayda – Human rights activists criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for playing down human rights violations in the country, saying it was counterp

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Three soldiers of the Cendrawasih Military Command in Jayapura, Papua, could face nine months to one year in a military prison for alleged involvement in