Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – The police defended their decision to fire on protesters on Wednesday, saying the demonstration was illegal.

An international lawyers organisation says it hopes Indonesia will identify and punish those responsible for the torture of two Papuan men which was caught on video.

Sara Sidner, Jakarta – A thin man with graying hair lies on his back, completely naked on a dusty road. His legs and arms are bound and his body suddenly contorts in pain.

Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) says it will launch an investigation into reports of rights violations committed by law enforcers against Papuans, an issue t

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A National Mandate Party (PAN) politician has urged for an immediate probe into torture allegedly committed by Indonesian Military (TNI) officers agains

The grotesque torture shown in this video demands an immediate and credible investigation, not the whitewash of an internal military investigation.

Jakarta – Amnesty International on Wednesday demanded Indonesia investigate allegations of torture by security forces in restive Papua province.

Nivell Rayda & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A volley of international criticism was unleashed at Indonesia on Monday over a video circulating on the Internet that apparently

Jakarta – Legislators and human rights activists have urged the government to verify the authenticity of a video that appears to show men in military uniform torturing an indigenous Pap

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IHRC has sent an urgent fax communication to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Murray McCully, urging him to respond to the leaked video evidence of shocking torture in West Papua.

19 October, 2010

The Right Hon. William Hague, MP
Foreign Secretary,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
King Charles Street,
London SW1A 1AA

Dear Mr. Hague,

A new video shows the torture of helpless men in the Indonesian-ruled territory of West Papua.

Ismira Lutfia & Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Minister of Justice and Human Rights Patrialis Akbar declined comment on an Internet video that appears to show Indonesian soldiers torturing

Tom Allard, Jakarta – A graphic and disturbing video shows a Papuan man being poked in the genitals with a fiery stick as he is interrogated by a group of men who appear to be members o

Jakarta – Indonesian police said Monday they would investigate fresh reports of torture by security forces against civilians in restive Papua province, after a graphic video was posted

Jakarta – The House of Representatives said Monday it would question Indonesian Military (TNI) Chief Adm.

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – The 2006 Witness and Victim Protection Law has been in force for almost four years, but implementation is still poor, the Witness and Victims Protection Agency

Farouk Arnaz, Nivell Rayda & Susilo Wardhani, Jakarta – Human rights activists on Monday objected to a new National Police regulation allowing officers to use live ammunition to con

Dili – East Timor on Tuesday got a favourable write-up in a United Nations human rights report that pointed to progress four years after unrest that killed nearly 40 people, despite som

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – A group of people imprisoned in the aftermath of the 1965 coup attempt that swept strongman Suharto into power have demanded the government apologize and clear t

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The only president-proposed National Police chief candidate, Comr. Gen.

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Activists have asked the House of Representatives to speed up the ratification of a legal instrument that protects people from enforced disappearances.

Jakarta – For some, the end of September is the time of year that brings back memories of family tragedies and loosing their rights to justice simply because their ideological affiliati

James Balowski, Jakarta – In November 2004, Indonesia's newly elected president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, pledged to bring to justice the murderers of Indonesia's most prominent human

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – A leading human rights organization says its investigations found that political prisoners in Maluku have been tortured by police officers and soldiers.

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The People's Consultative Assembly on Wednesday announced plans to bring together descendants of those involved in the alleged Sept.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office, and not the president, is to blame for the lack of resolution in the forced disappearance of student activists between

Siti Ruqoyah, Jakarta – Thirty or more people from the Indonesian Association of the Families of Missing Persons (Ikohi) and the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (

Nivell Rayda & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Undeterred by their arrest on Monday night, some 50 family members of activists who were kidnapped in 1997 and 1998 took to the st

Jakarta – The number of cases of violence against children has increased and shows more sadistic modus operandi, reports the National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA).

Helene Hofman – Human rights advocacy groups for East Timor have urged the US president to overturn the appointment of Indonesia's new ambassador to Washington.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Papuans told the US Congress at a hearing on Wednesday of the struggle to have their rights acknowledged by the Indonesian government.

Human rights advocacy groups for East Timor are calling on the president of the United States, Barack Obama, to reject the appointment of Indonesia's ambassador-designate to Washington.

Nivell Rayda, Banjir Ambarita & AFP, Jakarta – The United States on Wednesday urged Indonesia to move forward on autonomy for Papua but warned it would not overlook cases of injusti

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The United States Congress on Wednesday held an open hearing on Indonesia's alleged military abuses in Papua as well as the harsh economic, health and social con

Shaun Tandon, Washington – The United States called Wednesday for Indonesia to move forward on autonomy in its Papua region and insisted it would not overlook human rights as it seeks b

Today there are rallies at US Embassies in West Papua, Jakarta, Melbourne and Perth, reminding US Senators in a Congressional Hearing in Washington of Indonesia's atrocious human rights

This month marks the sixth anniversary of the alleged murder of one of Indonesia's most prominent human rights activists, Munir Said Thalib.

Ismira Lutfia & Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The government is being far too harsh in its handling of the low-level insurgency in Papua, a former minister says.

This week the House subcommittee on Asia will hold hearing on West Papua (Wed, September 22, 3 pm, 2172 Rayburn House Office Bldg., broadcast online via WEBCAST link at

Jakarta – An Indonesian human rights group Monday criticized the country's anti-terror police for allegedly killing three people suspected of involvement in a deadly heist on Sumatra is

A Papuan political prisoner in Jayapura's Abepura prison says ongoing international pressure is essential to force Indonesia to address human rights abuses.

Nivell Rayda & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – Human rights groups in West Papua are calling on the national rights commission to investigate last Wednesday's shooting deaths of two civi

Farouk Arnaz & Nurfika Osman, Porong, East Java – Fresh allegations of torture have been made against the police's counterterrorism unit, this time by Islamic hard-liners jailed for

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – A team from the National Police headquarters arrived in Ambon, Maluku, on Thursday to look into torture allegations against its counterterrorism unit, as rights

Jakarta – Human rights groups on Tuesday demanded the government investigate alleged judicial irregularities in the 1984 Priok Riot trials at the human rights ad hoc court between 2003

The alleged torture of six Christians in Maluku at the hands of Indonesia's counter-terrorist police unit, Detachment 88, has thrown a spotlight on Australia's multi-million dollar supp

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Australia has sent an official to Maluku to investigate the alleged torture of political detainees by Indonesia's elite antiterror unit Detachment 88 (Densus 88