Jakarta – The National Police has not changed its old violent culture as it has maintained the use of torture to obtain confessions from suspects during interrogation, a police watchdog

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Jakarta – Activists in London demanded Monday that Indonesian authorities bring to justice those responsible for killing Dutch Financial Times correspondent Sander Thoenes in then East

Irawaty Wardany – The fanfare of legislative and presidential inauguration ceremonies have already passed, but there remain many flaws in the electoral system and related laws, detailed

IPI warns Indonesia's commitment to democracy undermined

Blontank Poer, Surakarta – Bloggers and online community groups have urged lawmakers to scrap an article on libel from the 2008 Information and Electronic Transaction Law.

Nurfika Osman – Labor activists said on Wednesday they were wary that overseas internships offered to vocational high school students could be used as a cover for female trafficking, an

Farouk Arnaz – A human rights group expressed hope on Tuesday that the president would appoint a new intelligence chief who could solve the case of murdered activist Munir Said Thalib.

On October 20, La'o Hamutuk sent this letter to the member of the UN Security Council in New York, together with the annex which follows below.

A New Zealand based Indonesian human rights group says it's totally opposed to the importation of the tropical hardwood, Kwila, regardless of whether it is certified sustainable or not.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Hundreds of relatives of Acehnese people who went missing during the conflict, which lasted from 1976 to 2005, have strongly urged the provincial governm

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A new law mandating death by stoning for adulterers in Indonesia's deeply Islamic Aceh province advocates "torture" and should be overturned, US-based group Human Rights Watch said Mond

Febriamy Hutapea & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The government and the House of Representatives were under strong pressure on Tuesday to investigate how a section in the newly enacted

Stoning and flogging constitute torture in any circumstances.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has slammed the government for its failure to protect children's rights, leading to highest infant mortality r

Jakarta – The House of Representatives has yet to take the human rights factor into consideration in doing their legislative task and control function, say an activist.

Dili – An East Timorese court on Friday jailed a militia leader for 32 months for his role in widespread violence that left 37 people dead and more than 100,000 displaced in 2006.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – The head of Indonesia's anti-corruption commission has appeared in court charged with masterminding the murder of an alleged rival for the attentions of a

Farouk Arnaz – National Police on Thursday said they would provide support for the Attorney General's Office to review the controversial murder case of renowned activist Munir Said Thal

Jakarta – An NGO has urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to issue a presidential decree concerning the establishment of an ad hoc human rights court.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office was under strong pressure on Wednesday to immediately form an ad hoc team tasked with investigating the di

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle said on Wednesday it never intended to discredit controversial former special forces commander Prabowo Subianto by

Jakarta – Parliament has called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to form a human rights court to try the cases of rights activists kidnapped in 1997.

Jakarta – Media associations and NGOs will draw up their own version of the controversial state secrecy bill to present to the government, after the latter withdrew its version followin

United Nations – East Timor's government is defending its policy of not pursuing war crimes trials for Indonesian officials responsible for thousands of deaths during their 24-year occu

Problems in Indonesia's Papua province include security at the Freeport mine, high HIV rates, fast-shifting demographics and the ongoing conflict between the Free Papua Movement – known

John Aglionby, Jakarta – The final article written by Sander Thoenes before he was murdered in East Timor a decade ago on Monday was headlined: "Military's power undimmed by humiliation

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has joined the chorus of condemnation against Aceh province's passing of a new Islamic law calling for adulterers to be stoned to death and h

Dili – East Timor's opposition threatened on Friday to force an early election in an escalating row with the government over the release of an Indonesian militia leader accused of crime

Guido Goulart, Dili – East Timor's Supreme Court is investigating top government officials over accusations they illegally released a war crimes suspect at Indonesia's request – a case

Catharine Munro – An alleged victim of torture in East Timor says he regrets talking to the Australian Federal Police because he is now in danger after the man he accused flew out of Au

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-121-2009

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Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Hundreds of non-government organisations in Dili have backed the United Nations' condemnation of East Timor's release of an Indonesian man accused of crimes ag

Jakarta – After mounting pressure, the government has finally withdrawn the draft law on state secrecy to allow adequate time for the controversial bill to be scrutinized.

A new report finds East Timor is still lagging in efforts to prosecute human rights violations that occurred under Indonesian rule and during its turbulent transition to independence.

Febriamy Hutapea & Ismira Lutfia – After passing a record four bills on Monday, the House of Representatives repeated the feat on Tuesday, despite the continuing poor attendance of

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Camelia Pasandaran & Dessy Sagita – Kicking off its frantic final weeks, a plenary session of the House of Representatives on Monday approved four bills, a

Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono on Tuesday defended President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono from an accusation that he was trying to return the country to authoritarianism by pushing for t

Nivell Rayda – An international rights group on Monday slammed Indonesia's police for botching a key human rights case and for wielding defamation charges as a political weapon against

Jakarta – The Witness and Victim Protection Agency told families and victims of the 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre Saturday that it might be difficult for them to ask for compensation from

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was under strong pressure on Monday to intervene in the drafting process of the controversial state secrecy bill by orderin

Heru Andriyanto – The widow of slain businessman Nasrudin Zulkarnaen said on Monday that the accused mastermind of the murder, antigraft agency chairman Antasari Azhar, has promised inv

Ismira Lutfia – With black tape covering their mouths to symbolize freedom of expression being silenced, journalists on Monday demonstrated in front of the Supreme Court and urged it to

Pandaya, Dili – A man dropped a pale brown book onto my lap, startling me and interrupting my interview with human rights activist Lita Sarmento in the hall of the CAVR (Timor Leste Com

Jakarta – The House of Representatives has finally resolved more than 200 issues in the controversial state secrecy bill with the government, despite requests from civil society groups

Joint statement on the release of Martenus Bere – indicted for crimes against humanity in Timor-Leste

Jakarta – In another attempt at justice, families and victims of the 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre sent a letter to a United Nations special rapporteur Friday pleading for an intervention

Markus Makur, Timika – Monolithic mining company PT Freeport Indonesia should be forthright on the problems taking place within its concession area, a member of the National Commission

Australia-Indonesia relations are being tested as the Australian Federal Police conduct a war crimes investigation into the deaths of five Australian journalists killed at Balibo in 197