Tim Mann – Television, air conditioning, internet, karaoke, maids. These are not luxuries one would normally associate with Indonesian's maligned corrections system.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Activists say that the government must establish a family court system to accommodate the rights of women and children that have been ignored by existing religiou

Ina Parlina – While many citizens are enjoying new freedoms, minorities are still persecuted.

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Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A coalition of religious freedom activists, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists, and human rights and judiciary watchdogs has rejected

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Legislators have come out in defense of a controversial push by the government to reinstate criminal charges for insulting the president, a provision that was

Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The debate over a government proposal to reinstate criminal charges for insulting the president is heating up, with critics

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-056-2013

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Ezra Sihite – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) on Wednesday said it would support a revision of the criminal code (KUHP) which includes a controversial article that would punish witch

The Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party wants to revise the Criminal Code (KUHP) to reinstate an article to punish those who insult the President.

Ezra Sihite – The head drafter of the Criminal Code Law (KUHP) revision on Saturday claimed that a controversial article which would punish witchcraft is intended to protect people from

Carlos Paath – A conservative legislator has sprung to the defense of a proposed article against witchcraft in a newly drafted revision to the Criminal Code, insisting it addresses a mo

Margareth S.

A draft of a criminal code (KUHP) revision proposed by the government for debate earlier this month punishes unmarried people caught having sex, a report said on Thursday.

The Indonesian government's execution of Adami Wilson is a senseless end to four years without state killings.

After refraining from executing individuals for four years, the Indonesian authorities executed a Nigerian national, Adami Wilson, on 14 March 2013.

This is really outrageous news.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) said on Wednesday that it would launch a probe into a report that a judge, who was dismissed from his position a year ago, continues

Indonesia's Supreme Court on Wednesday implemented a new policy stipulating that the theft of anything less than Rp 2.5 million ($258) would be classified as a petty crime and would not

Ina Parlina and Margareth S.

Michael Bachelard – Australian travellers to Indonesia beware: smuggling drugs will still earn you jail time but, if an official draft of the country's new criminal code becomes law, wi

Camelia Pasandaran & Abdul Qowi Bastian – Indonesia's revision of its outdated Criminal Code includes proposed sanctions against cheating spouses, cohabiting couples and sorcerers a

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Supreme Court said on Wednesday that it backed a proposal to scrap the "fit-and-proper" test session at the House of Representatives in the selection of justi

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-018-2013

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Jakarta – As part of its house cleaning measures, the Supreme Court pledged on Thursday to step up its crackdown on corrupt judges.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) has found that many judges were dishonest in exercising their judgments and fell short of applying strict court procedures.

Rangga Prakoso – A government watchdog monitoring the performance of prosecutors says it has received about 1,107 complaints from the public in 2012, ranging from allegations of extorti

Young prisoners and adults are held in the same prison but PRADET says this will impact their mental health.

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Less than two weeks after the resignation of Justice Achmad Yamanie, allegedly for forging a document, the Supreme Court has begun proceedings that could en

Jakarta – Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Mahfud MD, who announced on Wednesday that he would not throw his hat in the ring for another term, seems bent on going out with a bang

Jakarta – Achmad Yamanie became the first Supreme Court judge in the country to resign from his position, citing health concerns.

Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Mahfud MD has called for the dismissal and replacement of all law enforcement officials so the nation's judicial institutions can be freed from t

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-193-2012

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The Judicial Commission said on Friday it will look into claims by a disgraced Bekasi judge that many of his colleagues in Jakarta were drug users and often engaged in "drug parties."

Zakir Hussain, Jakarta – More than 100 inmates are on death row in Indonesia, some for well over 10 years.

Michael Bachelard – In August a 69-year-old prisoner died of natural causes in an Indonesian hospital. This was not meant to happen.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsudin downplayed on Wednesday the recent arrest of a judge by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) for having a "drug p

AHRC-OLT-016-2012

Jakarta – As the world celebrates "World Day against the Death Penalty" on Wednesday, a coalition of human rights groups has urged the government to abolish the death penalty, describin

Jakarta – The death penalty was still necessary within the Indonesian criminal law system, Deputy Law and Human Rights Minister Denny Indrayana said during a discussion held in commemor

A Joint Statement by KontraS, LBH Masyarakat, LeIP, YLBHI, Imparsial, LBH Jakarta, Mappi and the Asian Human Rights Commission

Prodita Sabarini – A 15-year-old boy returned home on the night of March 14 this year to find all the lights in his house in Depok, turned off.

Recent brawls among high school students left two dead in separate incidents in the city, leading to an outcry on how the chronic problem might be overcome.

Jakarta, Indonesia – The Law and Human Rights Ministry is currently preparing a scheme to implement Law No.

Stephanie Quine – The access-to-justice system in East Timor is in "crisis", an Australian lawyer working there has said.

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Alex Tinsley – The case of Benny Wenda, leader of the West Papuan independence movement, is a perfect illustration of the need to reform Interpol and its abused red notice system.

A list is currently circulating on the internet which purports to list international supporters of the OPM (Organisasi Papua Merdek) in West Papua.

Margareth S.

Index: ASA 21/023/2012