An Indonesian court has sentenced Garuda Airlines pilot Polycarpus Priyanto to 14 years jail for the murder of prominent human rights activist Munir Thalib.

Kathy Marks – An off-duty pilot with the state-owned carrier Garuda Indonesia has been jailed for 14 years for his part in the murder of the country's foremost human rights activist, wh

Nurvita Indarini, Jakarta – The sentencing of Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto was enlivened by a demonstration by hundreds of activists from the Solidarity Action Committee for Munir.

President Kay Rala Xanana Gusmco
President, Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
Palacio Das Sinjas Rua Caicoli
Timor Leste

Dear President Gusmco,

Nurvita Indarini, Jakarta – Although Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto has been sentenced to 14 years jail, Munir's wife, Suciwati, appears not to care.

Luhur Hertanto, Jakarta – Pollycarpus has been sentenced to 14 months jail by the Central Jakarta State Court.

Fitraya Ramadhanny, Jakarta – Around 200 demonstrators from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) held an action in front of the State Palace demanding th

Fitraya Ramadhanny, Jakarta – Dissatisfied with the court's decision to sentence Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto to 14 years jail, around 200 activist from the Commission for Missing Pers

Dean Yates and Ade Rina, Jakarta – An Indonesian court jailed an off-duty pilot for 14 years on Tuesday over the murder of the country's top human rights activist during a flight on the

Muchus Budi R., Jakarta – Pollycarpus, the defendant in the murder case of human rights defender Munir will soon be sentenced.

Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, Hong Kong – Suciwati Munir looks every inch the modern, media-savvy campaigner, flying from country to country with her bags of matching red-and-black banners, butt

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Indonesia-Timor Leste Truth and Friendship Commission (CTF) plans to summon former Indonesian Military chief Gen.

Dili – The head of East Timor's Catholic Church has written to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to reaffirm the need for an international tribunal to bring justice for victims of violenc

Jakarta – A joint truth commission on violence surrounding East Timor's independence vote from Indonesia will try to summon people who may have been involved in the bloodshed next month

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Human rights campaigners on Wednesday blamed the slow investigation into last year's murder of pro-democracy activist Munir on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon

Jakarta – It is expected that the provisions on resolving human rights violations in Aceh will again attract sharp debate in dissuasions on the Draft Law on the Organisation of a Govern

The Southeast Asian Press Alliance has expressed alarm over the media situation in East Timor after Prime Minister Mari Altakiri signed an executive decree approving a penal code that c

Jakarta – No matter what verdict is delivered in the murder trial of prominent Indonesian rights activist Munir on Friday, activists and legal experts say the true mastermind may never

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ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Deddy Prihambudi, the chairman of the Surabaya Legal Aid Institute, who usually speaks in an explosive manner, was, for a moment, unusually quiet.

In an open letter to East Timorese President Josi Alexandre Gusmco, Human Rights First congratulated the Timorese leadership and called for the prompt release of the full report of that

As the world community prepared to commemorate International Human Rights Day on Dec.

Anna Piekarski – Yan Christian Warinussy is a wanted man. Not because he has committed a crime, but because he is trying to protect the law.

Sian Powell, Jakarta – Exactly 30 years after Indonesia sent a major invasion force into East Timor, the tiny half-island has come full circle in relations with its giant neighbour: fro

Dili – About 300 East Timorese called for an international tribunal to try soldiers accused of human rights violations as they marked the 30th anniversary of Indonesia's invasion of the

Machhendra Setyo Atmaja, Jakarta – A sentence of life imprisonment for Pollycarpus Budihari Prijanto is unsatisfactory as he is only a scapegoat.

On the 30th anniversary of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor, the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today called on the world to listen to East Timor's victims and act on

Dili – East Timor's president should make public a UN-commissioned report that recommends troops who carried out atrocities during Indonesia's 24-year rule be prosecuted, one of the aut

Gede Suardana, Denpasar – A sentence of five months jail and 10 months probation is being sought by the prosecution for 12 Udayana University students from the People's Struggle Front f

Supriyono Pangribowo, Jakarta – The offence of insulting the president is being used again.

The Indonesia Human Rights Committee has called on the Foreign Minister and the Prime Minister to urge the Government of Timor Leste to release the report of the Commission for Receptio

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Prosecutors have recommended a life sentence for Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto for the murder of the country's top human rights campaigner Munir.

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today called for the quick release of the full report of East Timor's truth commission, the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconc

Nurvita Indarini, Jakarta – Although the sentence being sought by the public prosecutor for Pollycarpus is considered just, the former secretary of the Munir Fact Finding Team (TPF), Us

Timor has rejected a government commission's recommendation that Australia, Britain and the United States pay compensation for their part in Indonesia's 24-year occupation of East Timor

Sian Powell and Richard Lloyd Parry – The Australian, British and US Governments and international arms makers should pay compensation for their part in Indonesia's brutal 24-year occup

Jakarta – Indonesian rights activists have condemned a recommendation by East Timor's president that a probe into past human rights violations in the world's youngest country be kept un

Tb. Arie Rukmantara, Jakarta – It is true what they say, "Money can't buy everything".

Richard Lloyd Parry – The British and American governments and international arms makers should pay compensation for their part in Indonesia's brutal 24-year occupation of East Timor, a

Guido Guilliart, Dili – East Timor's president on Tuesday rejected recommendations made by a national commission to address human rights abuses carried out during Indonesia's 24 yearlon

John Aglionby, Jakarta – The East Timorese president, Xanana Gusmao, yesterday presented to parliament the long-awaited report of the nation's Reception, Truth and Reconciliation Commis

Amnesty International is deeply concerned at President Xanana Gusmao's lack of political will to disseminate immediately to the public the recently completed final report of the Commiss

Tony Hotland and Blontank Poer, Jakarta/Surakarta – Apparently exhausted over pressure to bring the country's former authoritarian leader Soeharto to court over corruption allegations,

New York – Today, President Kay Rala Xanana Gusmco presented the Timorese parliament and Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri with the final report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Re

Hera Diani, Jakarta – Entrenched cultural traditions as well as the religious teachings of certain religions here say it is causes dishonor if women publicly reveal things that will dis

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, currently on trial for the murder of human rights activist Munir, on Friday gave a different account from his earlier testi

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Jakarta – Former deputy chief of the National Intelligence Agency (BIN), Muchdi PR, claimed that he did not know Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, the main suspect in the murder of top hum

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Adi Warsidi, Banda Aceh – The number of cases of human rights violations in Aceh following the signing of the Helsinki agreement between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Move