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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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, 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 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

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.

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

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

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

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

Nivell Rayda – The Australian government has rejected reports it is investigating allegations that Indonesia's elite counterterrorism unit tortured suspected separatists in Maluku.

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Twenty-six years after soldiers killed dozens of demonstrators in Tanjung Priok, rights groups are demanding that the next attorney general finally bring to just

Jakarta – National Police Chief Gen.

Jakarta – Indonesian police said on Tuesday that they will investigate new allegations that political activists have been tortured by members of United States- and Australian-backed ant

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – After years of being denied access to proper medical treatment, Yusuf Sipakoly, a political prisoner being detained in Ambon, Maluku, died at the age of 52 on Mo

Tom Allard – Yonias Siahaya's eyes, wide open and full of fear, shift constantly.

Tom Allard, Maluku – Australia has sent an official to the Indonesian province of Maluku to investigate claims that Indonesia's elite counter-terrorism unit, Detachment 88, which Austra

Adam Gartrell – Australia should press Indonesia to ensure its elite anti-terrorism squad obeys the law and upholds human rights, an expert says.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – There are strong indications that the police committed "serious violations of human rights" when people rioted after a man died in police custody in Buol, Ce

Buol, Central Sulawesi – New evidence of alleged human rights abuses by Indonesian security forces in Buol, Central Sulawesi, has emerged.

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Leading human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on the government to establish a fact-finding team to probe last Tuesday's deadly shooting of eigh

Farouk Arnaz, Anita Rachman & Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – National Police Chief Gen.