Jakarta – The Indonesian Press Council is eager for the establishment of a regional human rights court so that Indonesia can achieve greater freedom of speech and better protect journal

Adam Gartrell – An Australian woman cleared of plotting to assassinate East Timor's top political leaders intends to sue the country's president for defamation.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The law championing access to public information was implemented a month ago is almost impossible to enforce because the government has not made available mu

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Representatives of nongovernmental organizations grouped under the Solidarity for Riau Farmers held an art performance outside the National Police Headquarte

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has confirmed the April 26 riot in Mandailing Natal regency, North Sumatra, was violent and has recommended

Jakarta – Lawmakers have acknowledged there are numerous problematic articles in the intelligence bill that require further deliberation.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Commission III on law and human rights has proposed a revision of a law that will give more power to the Witness Protectio

Armando Siahaan – A Protestant congregation in Bogor, which has been forced to hold services on the street after its half-finished church was sealed by the city administration in April,

Jakarta – Both Indonesian and international activists are pressuring the Indonesian government to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Dis

Ismira Lutfia – A cabinet minister has promised to sign and ratify an international convention to protect people from enforced disappearance, but critics say it will be meaningless with

A project to create a large agricultural estate in Merauke in Indonesia's Papua province may still to go ahead despite the President announcing a two-year moratorium on new logging conc

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – Can a nation protect its own children if so many of them are unaware of their own rights?

Jakarta – Indonesia's minority and religious groups remain vulnerable to violence and discrimination, says an Amnesty International report released Wednesday in Indonesia.

Dessy Sagita & Zaky Pawas – As the National Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday told police to investigate hard-liners from the Islamic Defenders Front for raiding and forcefull

Nurfika Osman – Calling on the government to listen to the cries of children across the country, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations on Tuesday detailed horror stories ranging

Ulma Haryanto – The National Commission on Human Rights on Friday blasted the Bogor Police and administration for failing to protect the rights of the GKI Yasmin congregation to practic

Jakarta – After 12 years of reform following the fall of Soeharto in 1998, Indonesia still faces many barriers in its efforts to uphold human rights, observers say.

Radot Gurning & M Irham, Papua – Indonesia is often hailed as the country with the greatest freedom of speech in Asia.

Jakarta – After 12 years of reform following the fall of authoritarian ruler Soeharto in 1998, Indonesia still faces many barriers in its efforts toward better human rights enforcement.

Jakarta – The government should upgrade its ratification of the Convention of Rights of the Child (CRC) from a presidential decree to a law in order to better protect children, says a r

Jakarta – Twelve years have passed, but Karsiah, 47, and Hiratetty Yoga, 59, still do not know who shot their son to death on the day of the Trisakti shootings on May 12, 1998.

Dianing Sari, Jakarta – Without an amendment to the Criminal Code, it is impossible for female victims of May 1998 to get justice.

Ulma Haryanto – The May 1998 riots that devastated the capital during the fall of former President Suharto, leaving more than 1,500 people dead and widespread reports of gang rapes, hav

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The government's compensation for the victims of the 1998 May riots is useless without a concrete settlement of the tragedy, a human rights group says.

Jakarta – Some say time and distance will heal any wound, but not, it would seem, the trauma of watching thousands of enraged people bearing down on you and your family with destruction

Ulma Haryanto & Zaky Pawas – The National Commission on Human Rights will conduct a special investigation into the recent spate of vandalism targeting places of religious activities

Heru Andriyanto – It appears that no one knows for sure when a criminal trial should end.

Jakarta – Three days after the unruly Islam Defenders Front (FPI) stormed a human rights training workshop for transgender individuals in Depok, West Java, police seem reluctant to purs

Dessy Sagita – An Indonesian transsexual organization has criticized the Depok public order agency for failing to prevent dozens of hard-line Islamic activists from charging into a civi

Purwokerto – In a country were illegal logging and forest conversion is rife, a central Java teenager is facing the prospects of 10 years behind bars after he was arrested for allegedly

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Police have not arrested any members of a hardline Islamic group who stormed a human rights training session for transgender individuals, but instead plan to

Enraged members of the militant Islamic Defenders Front raided a human rights workshop for ladyboys in Depok on Friday in the mistaken belief there was a lingerie contest taking place.

Erwida Maulia and Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The historic freedom of information law comes into force today with most state institutions, mired in a decades-long culture of secrec

Ronna Nirmala – In the latest outburst by the Islamic Defenders Front, dozens of hard-liners charged into a civil rights training session for transsexuals held by the National Commissio

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Experts have argued that certain exemptions contained within the new freedom of information law, particularly those on state defense and strategies, will hin

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is calling for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission to resolve the lingering problems over past gross

Taufik Darusman – Sometime in mid-1998, in the aftermath of the fall of the Suharto regime, a number of kidnapped antigovernment activists suddenly found themselves freed as they were d

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Nurfika Osman – Amid human rights activists' demands for it to face justice, the Army's elite force marked its 58th anniversary on Friday by calling for t

Jakarta – The ongoing Judicial Commission examination team review of the Munir assassination case trial of former National Intelligence Body deputy Muchdi Purwopranjono indicates the ju

Ulma Haryanto – The area where the violence took place on Wednesday was also the site of massive human rights violations on Sept.

Eko Ari Wibowo/Joniansyah, Jakarta – Indonesian NGO activist monitoring police performance reported on Friday (9/4) abuse sent at his private residence following series of telephone thr

Jakarta – A survey conducted by the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute Foundation (YBHI) recently found that about 80 percent of detainees in the country suffered from acts of violence unde

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Authorities in Dili have appealed against the acquittal of the Australian Angelita Pires on charges of conspiring to kill East Timor's top two political leader

An Darwin woman found not guilty of trying to assassinate East Timor's president two years ago says the country needs to review its judicial system.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Experts argued that the minimum criminal prosecution age of eight years is too young and must be amended, during a judicial review of the controversial juven

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Relatives of rights abuse victims have protested a presidential decree appointing Lt. Gen. Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin as deputy defense minister.

Jakarta – Military Police have arrested four officers from the Army's Strategic Reserve Command (Kostrad) over accusations that they had physically abused four minors last week.

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – Farmers in Teluk Rendah, Tebo Ilir district in Tebo regency, Jambi, have planned to report a shooting incident to the National Police after a clash with the Mobile

Jakarta – On Monday April 5 the victims and families of victims of the abduction and forced disappearance of activists in 1997-1998, Semanggi I and II and Trisakti filed a suit with the

Nurfika Osman – The National Commission for Child Protection on Tuesday condemned the alleged beating of four minors by Army soldiers.