Jakarta – Hundreds of residents of Kampung Sawah in Cilincing, North Jakarta, staged a rowdy protest on Jl.

South Tapanuli – Batang Toru district office in South Tapanuli, North Sumatra, was closed on Wednesday following a violent protest by residents who oppose the construction of waste pipe

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) says it will summon the regents of Muara Enim and Ogan Ilir to mediate a land dispute spanning their regencies.

Jakarta – An allegation that her plantation company forced villagers to leave their lands came as another blow for businesswoman Siti Hartati Murdaya, a suspect in a bribery scandal.

Palembang – Residents of the Sidodadi subdistrict in Palembang, South Sumatra, staged a demonstration on Monday in front of the subdistrict office to protest the intimidation tactics em

Apriadi Gunawan and Oyos Saroso, Medan/Bandar Lampung – Dozens were hospitalized after hundreds of farmers clashed with riot police at the governor's office in Medan, North Sumatra, on

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Thousands of farmers in North Sumatra, Lampung, West and East Java are slated to take to the streets in observance of National Farmers Day and demand the govern

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Pulp and paper mill PT Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL) acknowledged on Friday that it had deployed security apparatus to face villagers in the conflict over a land disp

Ansyor Idrus, Palembang – An investigation by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) found that the South Sumatra Police were responsible for the shooting of civilians dur

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The much-awaited presidential regulation on land acquisition, which has taken more than six months to draft, failed to impress businesses looking forwar

Ansyor Idrus, Palembang – A local NGO wants the police to reduce their presence in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, following the crackdown after a boy was killed in a standoff with law enforc

Farouk Arnaz – Six mid-ranking police officers have been named suspects in an internal police investigation of the shooting of civilian protesters at the Cinta Manis sugar plantation in

Investigators "strongly suspect" that police officers fired live rounds into crowds of unarmed civilians while containing a land dispute with local residents in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra

National Awakening Party (PKB) chairman, Muhaimin Iskandar, wants the government to complete agrarian reform as soon as possible for the sake of farmers.

The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has urged the National Police to keep its distance from agrarian conflicts between local people and the state-owned plantation firm PT P

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will be sending an investigation team to Ogan Ilir in South Sumatra, the scene on Friday of possible rights violations, wi

Farouk Arnaz – Blood has been spilled in the holy month of Ramadan.

Ansyor and Oyos Saroso H.N., Palembang/Bandar Lampung – The central government and the National Police have been called upon to help put an end to the conflict between PT Perkebunan Nus

Jakarta – Human rights watchdogs and environmental NGO have slammed the police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) shooting on Friday of Limbang Jaya residents in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, which

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) called on the National Police to start an investigation into the death of a protester, shot during a protest over gold mining plans

Protests over a gold mining plan in Balaesang Tanjung, Donggala regency, Central Sulawesi, turned into a brawl as local residents fought with police officers on Wednesday.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – A land dispute in East Kalimantan saw hundreds of families gather outside the local government office in South Balikpapan on Tues

Ruslan Sangadji, Donggala, Central Sulawesi – Hundreds of residents vented their outrage in Balaesang Tanjung district, Donggala regency, Central Sulawesi, on Thursday afternoon over go

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Around 20 people equipped with rattan batons reportedly assaulted a group of farmers holding a land-conflict strike at the municipal legislative council in Meda

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Residents of Tulungagung, East Java, have spoken out against a plan for military exercises in the area, claiming that they own the land and that the drills wi

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – Farmers and activists in Central Java are expressing concern over what they claim is rampant conversion of agricultural fields.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – At least 24 people were injured, some severely, as a clash broke out between local residents and security guards hired by state plantation company PTPN II in Na

Rahmat, Makassar – Angry students in Makassar ran amok on Monday, destroying rooms in the South Sulawesi legislature building, prompting locals to complain that police should have done

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Four people were injured on Saturday, two of them critically, during the latest in a long line of clashes between farmers and security officers employed by oil

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-053-2012

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Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-051-2012

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Ridwan Max Sijabat, Mataram – The People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) warned the government that agrarian conflicts could turn into a conflagration that could foster social unrest in t

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – The Central Java provincial administration has been urged to find immediate and thorough settlements to land disputes to prevent more conflicts from boiling ove

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandar Lampung – Scholars and activists in Lampung say that the protest that led residents to set fire to PT BSMI's buildings in Mesuji, Lampung, this weekend resulted

Farouk Arnaz, Anita Rachman & Ulma Haryanto – The police heightened security in the conflict-riven district of Mesuji in Lampung on Monday following weekend violence against a plant

Farouk Arnaz – Lampung Police have heightened security around facilities owned by plantation firm Barat Selatan Makmur Investindo in Mesuji district, Lampung, after an alleged attack by

Ismira Lutfia – The Defense Ministry is touting a pending bill on national security as a key part of the solution to the spate of violent land disputes that has erupted across the count

Tangerang – Hundreds of residents of a Chinese-Indonesian community popularly known as Cina Benteng (Chinese of the Fort) living in Sewan Tongyan area in Neglasari subdistrict, sTangera

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-021-2012

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Rahmat – Around 500 protesters burned down buildings and other facilities belonging to Vale Indonesia in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, on Monday in another violent dispute between local r

Farouk Arnaz & Ulma Haryanto – The National Police said on Friday that it would investigate an incident on Thursday in which officers shot and wounded six farmers in the latest in a

Ulma Haryanto – Five farmers in North Sumatra suffered gunshot wounds on Thursday in the latest clash in a land dispute involving farmers, a palm oil company and police.

Hundreds of people from the Suku Tanjung indigenous group hurled rocks at the office of the district head in Agam, West Sumatra, on Thursday to protest the lack of resolution to a long-

Farouk Arnaz & Ezra Sihite – The fallout from a violent protests against gold prospecting activities in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, has spread to the country's corridors of power, pit

Fitri, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Residents of Bima district in West Nusa Tenggara have demanded that police withdraw the counterterrorism squad sent to the area in the wake of massi

Medan – A protest against the relocation of Raudhatul Islam Mosque by a housing businessman in Medan, North Sumatra, turned wild on Friday.

Farouk Arnaz – Police are calling on activists in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, who fled detention when a mob set fire to a government building and stormed another facility to return to cus

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Fitri Pikong & Antara, Mataram – A district office in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, was burned to the ground along with several motorcycles and cars by a mob of thousands of residents d

Fitri, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Protesters demanded on Friday a permanent end to gold prospecting activities in Bima district, but confusion still reigns over who actually has the