Haeril Halim, Jakarta – As corruption cases pile up at the Jakarta Corruption Court, the Supreme Court has started a quick-selection process to recruit new ad hoc judges, raising concerns about the

Jakarta – Indonesia's justice minister has bemoaned the level of overcrowding in the country's penitentiaries, saying more needs to be done to rehabilitate rather than incarcerate drug users, who m

Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa is working on a draft bill on the practice of chemical castration as a punishment for convicted pedophiles despite issues raised by human

Jakarta – National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen.

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – A coalition of human rights groups has voiced opposition to the government's plan to introduce chemical castration for sex offenders.

Jakarta – Rights group Amnesty International has called on Indonesian authorities to immediately repeal Aceh's Islamic Criminal Code, which came into effect on Friday, arguing that punishing people

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Attorney General M.

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Following mounting pressure to apply harsher penalties on child sex offenders, the government has given the green light to apply chemical castration on perpetrators in an e

Jakarta – The Aceh administration will start implementing a new, tougher Qanun Jinayat (Islamic criminal bylaw) on Friday, with wider scope and harsher punishments for violators, an official said o

Jakarta – Indonesia's president will soon sign a decree authorising the use of chemical castration to punish paedophiles, the attorney general said, following a string of headline-grabbing child se

Jakarta – An additional sanction for child sex offenders, in the form of castration, has received support from the Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Yohana Yembise.

Jakarta – The idea of injecting men who sexually abuse children with female hormones to reduce their sex drive has received support from many public figures, including President Joko "Jokowi" Widod

Erika Anindita – Death penalty convicts in Indonesia were frequently not given access to lawyers and were forced to confess after being severely beaten, says Amnesty International in its report rel

Melissa Davey – In the year since the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, assumed office, 14 prisoners have been executed, 12 of which were foreign nationals, an Amnesty International report has fou

Death row prisoners in Indonesia are routinely denied access to lawyers and are coerced into "confessions" through severe beatings, while foreign nationals facing the death penalty had

Jakarta – A lawmaker on Monday demanded the ousting of the Justice and Human Rights Ministry's penitentiary director general after another photograph was circulating online that seemed to be showin

National – Marking the 13th World Day against the Death Penalty on Saturday, the Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (ELSAM) has called on the government and the House of Representatives to

Jakarta – An alarming number of states across the globe, including Indonesia, continue to violate international law by executing people convicted on drug-related charges, Amnesty International said

Jakarta – In conjunction with the 13th World Day Against the Death Penalty, local rights groups have renewed their call for the government to abolish the death penalty, especially for drug convicts

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court handed down a ruling on Wednesday stripping the Judicial Commission of its role in the selection of judges for district courts, religious courts and

The appearances of imprisoned graft convict and former low-ranking tax officer Gayus Tambunan in public places is nothing extraordinary for former convict Bona Paputungan, because he often witnesse

Yogyakarta – Transferring a graft convict notorious for his out-of jail jaunts to a higher-security prison will solve nothing as long as the systemic corruption that allowed the fiasco to play out

Jakarta – Ex-tax officer, now prisoner, Gayus Halomoan Tambunan has admitted that he did indeed enjoy a meal at a restaurant recently, the photo of which went viral on social media.

Jakarta – A rights group, the Commission for Missing Person and Victims of Violence (Kontras), warned that the newly inaugurated National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – The newly inaugurated chief of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – In a proposed revision of Indonesia's Criminal Code, a stipulation has been introduced to curb the availability of contraceptive devices.

Tom Allard – Indonesian authorities have shut down an investigation into allegations that judges asked for bribes in exchange for more lenient sentences for executed Bali nine pair Myuran Sukumaran

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court's conviction of child sexual abuse that sentenced five contracted cleaners at the Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS) to seven a

ndra Budiari, Jakarta – The Jakarta High Court's decision to overturn the conviction of Indonesian Ferdinant Tjiong and Canadian Neil Bantleman in the child abuse case at the Jakarta Intercultural

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Two teachers from a prestigious Jakarta international school have been acquitted of child sex offences amid claims of an elaborate hoax to extract $US125 million from the scho

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – An Indonesian court has overturned convictions against a Canadian teacher and an Indonesian teaching assistant who were serving 10 years in prison for sexually abusing thr

Jakarta – Newly appointed Papua Police chief Paulus Waterpauw said that he would continue the legal follow up of the Tolikara incident in Papua despite an announcement that the conflicting sides ha

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court dismissed on Monday a US$125 million civil suit filed against the Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS) by TP, the mother of a boy who was sex

Andreyka Natalegawa & Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Human rights activists and legal experts have again called on President Joko Widodo to halt the execution of drug traffickers following th

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The spotlight has turned on the judicial system's lack of an appeal mechanism for pretrial rulings on criminal allegations, with judges exercising a binding say on cases bef

Melissa Davey – The credibility of government data cited by the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, to support the country's punitive drugs policies has been criticised by a group of leading health

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) commissioner Busyro Muqoddas has criticized South Jakarta District Court judge Yuningtyas Upiek Kartikawati's decision to orde

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – The lawyer who made the explosive claim that the judges who sentenced Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to death were corrupt says he no longer wishes to comment on the ca

Febriamy Hutapea, Jakarta – The December 2014 sexual assault convictions of cleaners employed by ISS at the Jakarta Intercultural School dominated local media for weeks as questions over the legiti

Jakarta – Activists on Friday called on the government and legislature to deliberate on a planned revision of the Criminal Code of Procedures following last week's ruling by the Constitutional Cour

Josh Lees – For weeks, the media displayed rare sympathy for two men, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who have now been executed in Indonesia. Rare indeed.

Jakarta – Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo said on Monday that a proposed plan to abolish the death penalty was still only at the discussion stage, following a proposal from several legislators t

Kristian Silva – The Brisbane lawyer who asked the Australian Federal Police to stop Bali Nine member Scott Rush travelling to Indonesia has dismissed a police explanation that the drug smugglers c

Erwin Sihombing & Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's top official in charge of prisons handed in his resignation on Monday following the discovery last month that a drug kingpi

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies – Military strongman and former presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto urged Indonesian President Joko Widodo to indefinitely delay the executions of 10 drug fel

Jakarta – Zainal Abidin, the sole Indonesian among a batch of eight drug offenders executed on Wednesday, may have been denied justice because of a bureaucratic blunder, the Supreme Court has revea

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – As a mother of two boys and a migrant worker subjected to domestic abuse, convicted drug trafficker Filipina Mary Jane Veloso was the only figure scheduled to be executed this

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Jakarta) has said Indonesia's legal system is at risk of arbitrarily taking away people's right to life through capital punishment.

Jakarta – Indonesia carried out the execution of eight drug convicts by firing squad on Nusa Kambangan prison island off Central Java early on Wednesday despite multiple efforts from human rights a

Cilacap – Indonesia on Wednesday staunchly defended its execution of seven foreigners including two Australians as a vital front of its "war" on drugs as testimony emerged of how they went singing