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

Jakarta – Police forcibly dispersed a peaceful rally held by a group of human rights activists in front of the State Palace on Monday night.

Pat Walsh – I am writing this with a heavy heart. I grieve for Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and their loved ones, and the others executed by firing squad in Indonesia early this morning.

Tom Allard and Jewel Topsfield in Cilacap – Indonesian authorities have refused Bali nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran the right to have a pastor of their choice to witness their executions

Tom Allard – Indonesia's judicial commission has maintained it has completed its investigation into bribery allegations involving the judges who sentenced Bali nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Suku

Michael Buehler – A firing squad in Indonesia has shot Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran together with six out of seven other alleged narcotics traffickers.

Tama Salim, Jakarta – Criticism mounted of the government ahead of its impending second round of executions expected on Tuesday, as civil society groups demanded it respect all the legal processes

Tom Allard – Indonesia's Attorney-General and chief advocate for executing drug felons, H.M.

Cilacap – An NGO activist has said that Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, a Philippine death row inmate convicted on drug trafficking charges, is only a poor woman, with two children in her home country, wh

An open letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to President of the Republic of Indonesia, Mr. Joko Widodo

Jewel Topsfield – Myuran Sukumaran has painted what could be his last self-portrait: a torso with a palm-sized black hole over the heart dripping with blood.

Michelle Nichols, New York – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Indonesia on Saturday not to execute 10 prisoners, including two Australians, for drug-related crimes.

Jakarta – Situbondo District Court in East Java sentenced Asyani, 70, to 15 months probation on Thursday for stealing seven pieces of wood belonging to state company PT Perhutani.

Jakarta – NGOs want law enforcers to take into consideration the impending revision of the Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) concerning elderly lawbreakers.

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has protested a lack of notice from Saudi authorities prior to the execution of a mentally ill Indonesian woman in the kingdom, prompting activists to point out

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – An Indonesian law reform organisation has called for a moratorium on executions after a study of 42 death sentences handed down between 2002 and 2013 found many of the co

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The US, Canada and the UK have voiced concerns over the convictions of Canadian Neil Bantleman, 45, who also holds British nationality, and Indonesian Ferdinant Tjiong, 42,

Jewel Topsfield – In a decision that has alarmed the expatriate community and deepened concerns about Indonesia's justice system, two staff members at one of the most prestigious international scho

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Supreme Court guaranteed on Friday that all justices would expedite hearings on case-review petitions filed by several death row, as the international community was obser

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – High-ranking government officials said on Wednesday that no executions of drug convicts would take place in the next few months, as the country's judiciary was still processi

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – The Indonesian Supreme Court has agreed to review the case of a Filipina drug courier scheduled to be shot at the same time as the Bali nine duo, potentially delaying the

Jewel Topsfield – Indonesian parliamentarians are publicly questioning the fact that 10 prisoners on death row, including Bali nine organisers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, have not yet been ki

Carlos Paath, Jakarta – A 63-year-old woman, who was arrested three months ago on suspicion that she had taken wood from a teak plantation managed by state-owned forestry firm Perhutani, was releas

Tom Allard – Prominent figures in the Indonesian government, including senior cabinet members, have been urging President Joko Widodo to reconsider the executions of the Bali nine duo, Fairfax Medi

Jewel Topsfield – Indonesia could release 10,000 asylum seekers to Australia if Canberra continues to antagonise the republic over the execution of the Bali nine duo, an Indonesian minister has war

Jakarta – Indonesian demonstrators on Tuesday delivered bags of coins to the Australian embassy, saying they were handing back tsunami aid money after Canberra sought to use the issue to pressure J

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Former Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri has reportedly told the current president not to grant clemency to those on death row, blaming drugs for the spread of H

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Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakin Saifuddin has said that capital punishment does not violate human rights.

Tom Allard, Cilacap – Indonesia's president Joko Widodo says he is open to abolishing the death penalty, but not for a "long time" and only if the Indonesian people want it.

Jewel Topsfield, Tom Allard – The Denpasar police chief has denied a grinning photograph of himself and condemned prisoner Andrew Chan was a heartless selfie.

Courtney Sherwood – An Oregon woman arrested on a drug charge while traveling in East Timor last September and who has maintained her innocence, has been allowed to leave the country after six mont

Bob Howarth, Dili – Timor-Leste's media scene has blossomed and grown successfully in 15 years.

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The death penalty is an inhuman form of punishment and not effective in deterring crime, the Indonesian Bishops Conference (KWI) said on Friday, ahead of the pending execut

Ina Parlina, Bogor, West Java – Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama, reiterated on Thursday its support for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to press ahead with the government's

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