Jakarta – The National Commission for Child Protection said thousands of Indonesian children had become the prey of sex traffickers due to poverty and economic problems.

Muhammad Taufiqqurahman, Jakarta – The Solidarity Action Committee for Munir (Kasum) sees 2009 as a year of gloom that failed to provide any clarity in the ongoing investigation of Muni

Heru Andriyanto – Indonesian woman Prita Mulyasari has been cleared of criminal defamation charges by Tangerang District Court on Tuesday in the case brought against her by doctors from

Nivell Rayda & Nurfika Osman – A controversial new book has inflamed passions over the PT Bank Century bailout with claims that the Democratic Party received illegal campaign contri

Ismira Lutfia - A new information technology crimes bill looks set to spark intense public debate next year given its high priority on the House of Representative's 2010 National Legisl

Jakarta – The National Commission for Child Protection attributed the increasing number of crimes committed by children to trauma related to human rights abuses.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar has admitted the need to revise "sensitive" article on defamation in the 2008 Information and Electronic Trans

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission will summon 62 judges, out of the country's total 6,300, for questioning in connection with "problem" rulings handed down in court.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta – The struggle for human rights is universal, unrestricted and equal, whatever the person's tribe, religion or race.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The draft government regulation on bugging, which could limit the antigraft's inception authority, met jeers from human right activists who said it woul

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The government will need a law, and not a mere, decree, if it wishes to regulate wiretapping operations, say anticorruption activists.

Irawaty Wardhany, Jakarta – The son of a woman who was sentenced 45 days imprisonment after being found guilty of stealing three cacao fruits worth only Rp 1,500 (15 US cents) has quest

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Police are questioning 10 officers from their Mobile Brigade (Brimob) unit in connection with a shooting incident last week in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra.

Kinanti Pinta Karana – The civil lawsuit against Prita Mulyasari would be dropped, a spokesman for Omni Hospital said on Friday, however her lawyer has said that Prita should also be re

Jakarta – A Papuan priest and a late labor activist were conferred Thursday with the prestigious Yap Thiam Hien Award, presented to those showing the most dedication to the upholding of

Jakarta – As thousands of people joined rallies across the country to mark International Human Rights Day on Thursday, human rights watchdogs announced that the state still falls short

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the occasion of the Human Rights Day 2009

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women urged the government to review a number of sharia-based bylaws deemed discriminative against women as part of

Camelia Pasandaran – Thousands of human rights activists converged in Central Jakarta and the State Palace on Thursday to mark International Human Rights Day and lambasted President Sus

Dessy Sagita, Heru Andriyanto & Febriamy Hutapea – A week after losing her appeal in a controversial defamation suit, Prita Mulyasari now has more than enough money to pay off the R

Heru Andriyanto – Activists on Tuesday held a rally outside the Attorney General's Office in South Jakarta, demanding that prosecutors challenge the acquittal of the former intelligence

Candra Malik, Yogyakarta – The country's justice system has once again found itself uncomfortably in the spotlight, this time over the arrest and jailing of a Yogyakarta grandfather for

Papuan priest Yohanes Jonga has been named the recipient of the 2009 Yap Thiam Hien Award, the country's most prestigious human rights accolade, for his fearless struggles in the troubl

The US Department of State in October published the latest in its series of "Background Notes" regarding Indonesia.

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Residents of Rengas subdistrict, Ogan Ilir regency, reported Monday the regency police's Mobile Brigade Unit's (Brimob) Friday attack to the South Sumatra pro

Nivell Rayda & Kinanti Pinta Karana – Just two days after she lost an appeal in the Banten High Court over a civil defamation suit brought against her by Omni hospital, Prita Mulyas

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Eleven residents in Renggas village, Payaraman district, Ogan Ilir regency, South Sumatra, were wounded when members of the local police Mobile Brigade Unit a

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – A human rights organization has filed an amicus brief with a district court to support plaintiffs in a class action on forced evictions at Papanggo Ujung, No

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Human rights groups this week were assured by the government that it would strengthen the security of persons who would come forward as witnesses to a crime.

Matt Crook, Dili – East Timor's leaders say bringing to justice perpetrators of atrocities committed during the Indonesian army's occupation would sour relations between the neighbourin

Indonesia's poorest province, Papua, is once again in the spotlight over its human rights record.

AHRC-SPR-004-2009

Contents

AI Index: ASA 21/024/2009

Regional Police Chief (Kapolda)
Inspector General Bekto Suprapto
Jayapura, Papua,
Indonesia

30 November 2009

Jakarta – Amnesty International called Monday for an investigation into a "pattern of unchecked human rights violations" by Indonesian police in restive Papua province.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Rights activist Fauzi Abdullah died at age 60 on Friday, just before he was to be awarded for his work defending the rights of laborers in Indonesia.

Candra Malik, Batang (Central Java) – After the uproar over the case of Minah, a grandmother who received a suspended sentence for stealing three cocoa pods, the sense of justice of mil

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) no longer has any grounds to postpone submitting a judicial review on the release of former National Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy chief

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The controversial state secrecy bill is back, with the Defense Ministry planning to meet with a number of prominent public figures who had earlier expressed o

Jakarta – Bunga (not her real name) never imagined the nightmare she would go through on her first night as a prostitute in a Malaysian brothel, when she lost her virginity to the highe

Agus Maryono, Purwokerto – While many big-time criminals evades justice across the country for corruption, an elderly woman in Banyumas, Central Java, faces the law for stealing three c

Mataram – Dozens of students and local leaders from Bima regency rallied outside the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Police headquarters in Mataram on Thursday to demand a trial of top officer

Dessy Sagita& Candra Malik – The case of a grandmother of seven who was charged with stealing three pieces of cocoa fruit and subjected to 18 days of house arrest before being dragg

Jakarta – Experts urged the government to consider human rights when making policies to avoid rights violations, and to establish better social conditions in the country.

An Open Letter to the Attorney General of Indonesia by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Activists on Monday urged the government to push the police in their stalled investigations of a number of human rights violations in Papua, particularly the

Dessy Sagita – The 2009 Law on Narcotics is too repressive and contains articles that could potentially violate human rights, the National AIDS Commission said on Wednesday.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Defense Ministry on Wednesday criticized a statement by activists and the Press Council calling for a rethinking of the State Secrecy Bill, saying that no

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A law expert and former counselor for the Constitutional Court (MK), Irmanputra Sidin said the replacing of all the police officers guarding the court W

Dicky Christanto and Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Reeling from a body blow delivered by a former police chief's testimony in antigraft official Antasari Azhar's trial, police made p

Guido Goulart, Dili – Families in East Timor appealed Thursday to their own government and Indonesian authorities to help recover the bodies of dozens of loved ones still missing 18 yea