Adam Harvey – Reformed death row prisoners in Indonesia, like Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran who were executed in 2015, could be spared the firing squad under proposed law

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – Head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) Commissioner General Budi Waseso revealed that the agency shot dead 79 drug dealers in 2017, they were suspects who resis

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Arief Hidayat has responded to allegations that he lobbied the House of Representatives to secure a second tenure as justic

Jakarta – The Institute for Research and Advocacy for Independent Courts (LeIP) is set to hold the first Indonesian Judicial Reform Forum (IJRF), scheduled for Jan. 15 to Jan. 16, 2018.

Arzia Tivany Wargadiredja – When police fatally shot a Taiwanese national accused of dealing drugs from a low-rent apartment complex in Central Jakarta earlier this week, it was just the latest dea

Budi Waseso, the head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), is known for his somewhat... unconventional ideas about dealing with Indonesia's supposed drug crisis.

Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – For Tracy Bantleman it has been a long battle to free her husband, who she says, without a skerrick of doubt, is innocent of the most damning of charges.

Joe Cochraneoct, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia's troubled legal system is again coming under scrutiny, after rulings in two high-profile cases that have alarmed both Western expatriates and local

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso said that investigators would continue to shoot on site suspected drug dealers who refused to surrender.

Jakarta – As many as 18 judges were given disciplinary sanctions between June and September this year following arrests made by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and illegal levy eradicat

Phelim Kine – Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency (BNN) head has an innovative approach to reducing incarceration costs: killing drug suspects so that they never get to prison.

Jakarta – The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights is in the process of recruiting 14,000 new prison guards as part of its efforts to hire a total of 17,586 new employees this year, more than the c

Phelim Kine – Indonesia's government on Tuesday marked World Day Against the Death Penalty by issuing a self-serving and contradictory statement on its death penalty policy.Law and Human Rights Min

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Garry Maddox – More than two years after the execution of Bali Nine ringleaders Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, artist and filmmaker Matthew Sleeth is still furious about what he considers a poin

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has launched the National Program on the Eradication of Illegal Drugs and Drug Abuse, which aims to combat the rampant distribution of illegal drugs and cri

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The tough stance taken by the government against drug dealers has taken a deadly turn that has seen a significant rise in the number of victims being shot dead by

Panca Nugraha, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – The Judicial Commission has warned judges to be careful when using social media because it has the potential to violate certain codes of ethics.

Jakarta – Jakarta-based rights group Community Legal Aid Institute (LBH Masyarakat) has urged the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to stop all preparations for a fourth round of executions under the

Jakarta – National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso has stated that he is ready to execute any agency officers caught accepting bribes from drug suspects.

Phelim Kine – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's murderous "war on drugs" may now be claiming victims beyond his country's borders: suspected drug dealers in Indonesia.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) needs to improve its performance in handling judicial review requests to curb potential misconduct, human rights watchdog Setara Institute has suggested.

Joe Cochrane, Jakarta, Indonesia – The recent escape of four foreign inmates who tunneled their way out of Kerobokan Prison, a high-security facility on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, could

The number of police killings of suspected drug dealers has skyrocketed in Indonesia this year, an alarming rise which signals that authorities could be looking to emulate the murderous "war on dru

Summary execution-style killings between 1982 and 1985, known locally as penembakan misterius (mysterious shootings), or Petrus, were infamous as a means of bringing down crime rates in the country

Jewel Topsfield, Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Minutes before Indian truck driver Gurdip Singh was due to be killed by a firing squad the power went out in his cell on Indonesia's penal island Nusakambang

Jakarta – Raid, shoot, kill and repeat.

Phelim Kine – Today, Jakarta's police chief said that when dealing with suspected drug dealers, "sending them to God" would take priority over arrest and prosecution.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The newly appointed Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen.

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Within days of Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordering police to shoot drug dealers who resist arrest, the government last week announced a radical s

Vincent Bevins, Jakarta, Indonesia – On July 22, normally mild-manned Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo instructed his police to shoot drug traffickers.

Vincent Bevins, Jakarta – An official watchdog has found that Indonesia executed a Nigerian man last year while his case was unresolved, leading to renewed calls for a halt to a system holding hund

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ombudsman has concluded that there was "maladministration" in the execution of Nigerian Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke last year.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's instruction last week to law enforcers to shoot drug traffickers to combat what he called a narcotics emergency facing the nation, has drawn sharp critici

Ben Westcott – Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called on police to kill drug dealers who resist arrest in what critics say is an attempt to burnish his credentials as a strongman leader among

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has ordered law enforcers to shoot drug traffickers to deal with what he called a narcotics emergency facing the country.

Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has issued a shoot-to-kill order against foreign drug dealers and traffickers, as he called for tougher action in Indonesia's war on drugs.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed law enforcement officers to impose the sternest sanctions on drug dealers operating in Indonesia, including gunning them down i

Phelim Kine – The head of Indonesia's police on Thursday unveiled a new policing approach to combating drugs: shooting suspected dealers.

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian said on Thursday that the example of the Philippines illustrated that capital punishment was an effective way to combat drug dealers.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court rejected on Wednesday a judicial review petition to challenge several articles in a 2011 law that regulate the term of office for the court's justices, including

Jakarta – In view of the Constitutional Court (MK) chief's substandard performance in the first half of his term, two notable law monitoring institutions have demanded that incumbent Arief Hidayat

Jakarta – Arief Hidayat was re-elected as the Constitutional Court chief justice for the 2017 to 2020 period during a plenary meeting on Friday.

Francis Chan, Jakarta – A Bali prison break by four inmates last Monday has again shone the spotlight on longstanding issues of overcapacity and understaffing at Indonesia's correctional facilities

Jewel Topsfield Amilia Rosa – Bali's police chief says he believes a crime syndicate helped four foreign prisoners, including Australian Shaun Davidson, stage a brazen escape from Bali's Kerobokan

Jakarta – The Supreme Court has dashed the hopes of Jessica Kumala Wongso, who was convicted of using cyanide-laced coffee to murder a friend, to be released from her 20-year prison sentence.

Jakarta – Authorities canceled on Wednesday night the transfer of former Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama to the Cipinang prison in East Jakarta over security concerns.

Indonesian police are searching for four foreign inmates who escaped prison on Bali by crawling through a narrow tunnel dug under the walls, the authorities said.

Jakarta – Indonesia expressed its commitment to address challenges that hamper its efforts to improve and protect human rights at home, during the 27th session of the United Nations Universal Perio

Surakarta – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has stated that drug abuse in Indonesia has shown no downward trend, despite the execution of 18 drug kingpins since he took office nearly two and a half