Kanis Dursin – Wearing a headscarf, T-shirt and jeans, Nurhayati, 21, appears very much like any other girl in Aceh.

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said Friday it is ready to use "strong evidence" to prove Soeharto illegally channeled funds from his Supersemar Foundation

Jakarta – The Indonesian Press Council condemned Friday state-owned telecommunication services provider PT Telkom for giving the text messaging records of a journalist to law enforcemen

Jakarta – Former President Soeharto is pleased with the Supreme Court's ruling of his lawsuit against Time magazine, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Jakarta – Indonesia's Press Council described the Supreme Court's decision ordering Time magazine to pay former president Soeharto Rp 1 trillion (US$106 million) as an "evil omen" for l

Ed Davies and Ahmad Pathoni, Jakarta – Indonesian human rights activist Munir Thalib, who died in agony of arsenic poisoning on a Garuda flight in 2004, made plenty of enemies in his ca

Jakarta – A lawyer for Time magazine in Indonesia vowed Tuesday to fight a Supreme Court decision awarding former dictator Suharto 106 million dollars in a defamation suit he filed agai

Jakarta – The government defended its stance Thursday to exclude public access to state enterprises, saying there existed already several regulations around the transparency of state-ow

Jakarta – There remains a low rate of reform in the Supreme Court and the mafia still exists within its ranks, experts said Thursday.

Jakarta – A group of retired Army officers from Makassar, South Sulawesi, has flown to Jakarta to seek legal support from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kon

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Dear Ambassador Hume,

On the third anniversary of the fatal poisoning of leading Indonesian human rights lawyer Munir, Human Rights First called on the Indonesian government to immediately and fully investig

Jakarta – Chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights Ifdhal Kasim said Wednesday the commission was committed to continue investigations into the 1989 shooting spree at Talangs

Hamish McDonald – A wealthy businessman will spend nearly $500,000 trying to get Asia-Pacific leaders to focus on human rights abuses this week.

Jakarta – Indonesian state prosecutors have failed to reach an out-of-court settlement with former dictator Suharto over a civil suit they filed against him in July, they said Tuesday.

Jakarta – Political activists are calling for a radical reform of the country's intelligence agencies to prevent extrajudicial killings and the suppression of information.

Jakarta – Police investigators defended Wednesday procedures used in the interrogation of a key witness in the Munir case who has now retracted his testimony.

It is customary for the older generation to tell the younger generation a living memory of what the nation has been.

James Balowski, Jakarta – New evidence has been presented in a judicial review of Garuda Indonesia pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto – who was acquitted last year for murdering renown

We owe Munir the activist, who died on September 7, 2004. Yet after almost three years, it is still not clear who killed him.

The case review on the Munir case may implicate high-ranking officials from the State Intelligence Agency (BIN).

An important witness in the Munir murder case is being closely guarded by police. His background story is confusing.

The trial reviewing the case of Munir's alleged murderer, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, will also determine the fate of some BIN (State Intelligence Agency) officials.

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The retraction of testimony by a key witness in the murder of rights activist Munir Said Thalib might not do great harm to the prosecutors' case, two prominent l

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said Friday it had further evidence to implicate exonerated suspect Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto in the murder of human rights activist Mu

Fadli, Batam – Batam's new Barelang Penitentiary has only been open two months, but it is already overcrowded.

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The defiance of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) to cooperate and help resolve the murder of rights campaigner and staunch military critic Munir Said Thalib i

Jakarta – A telephone conversation between acquitted murder suspect Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto and former Garuda Indonesia President Indra Setiawan emerged Wednesday as the latest in

Nani Afrida, Bener Meriah – Fatimah Inem Syam, 55, was just like any other woman in Aceh.

Indonesia's state intelligence agency asked the country's national airline Garuda to transfer one of its pilots to its corporate security unit shortly before a mid-air murder, a court w

Jakarta – For the sake of democracy, the Press Council has asked the government to cancel its plan to revise Law No.

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The draft of an independent bill has suggested all corruption cases in Indonesia should go to a specialized court run by judges who have been carefully selected

Today, more than sixty organisations, comprising local and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and United Nations agencies have issued a public statement condemning rece

Jakarta – The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) has been implicated in the murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib after prosecutors submitted new evidence in the case review of

'Not a violation of human rights,' says army

Mark Forbes Herald, Jakarta – The Indonesian intelligence agency BIN ordered several assassination attempts against the human rights activist Munir Thalib, including the use of black ma

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Despite political obstacles, the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam provincial administration is considering establishing a truth and reconciliation committee (KKR)

Indonesia, which received the second highest number of votes in elections to the United Nations Human Rights Council earlier this year, will celebrate its sixty second Independence Day

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Two years after the signing of the Helsinki peace agreement, justice is not being properly upheld in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province and prosperity remai

Jakarta – The AGO is confident the testimony of former Garuda Indonesia chairman Indra Setiawan will have a significant impact on its case involving the alleged murder of rights activis

Samantha Brown, Jakarta – Indonesian state prosecutors have compiled an array of fresh evidence that implicates the powerful state intelligence agency in the murder of a rights activist

Iqbal Fadil, Jakarta – Suspicions by the Munir Fact Finding Team (TPF) that the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) was involved in the Munir case have been proven correct following the

John Mcbeth, Senior Writer – Even the commissioners themselves privately acknowledge that there is one thing missing from the hearings conducted by the Timor Leste-Indonesia Truth and F

Indra Subagja, Jakarta – The lawyer representing Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, M.

Jakarta – A new chapter opened in the Munir murder case Friday after the National Police submitted files on two new suspects to the Jakarta provincial prosecutor's office.

Indra Subagja, Jakarta – Former Garuda executive director Indra Setiawan's attorney has confirmed that his client issued an instruction to Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto to be on duty on

Indra Subagja, Jakarta – Little by little, the mystery surrounding the Munir case is being uncovered. Wira D.

Jakarta – The Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) is demanding that the government sign the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People to ensure the

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Politicians, political analysts and activists have told the government to revise a 1999 law on crimes against the state, which they said had lost all relev

Jakarta – Suciawati has waited for months for some good news regarding the ongoing inquest into her husband's alleged murder – until the AGO on Friday provided a glimmer of hope.