Bastiaan Scherpen, Jakarta – The Dutch state has to compensate not only widows, but also the children of men murdered during a bloody crackdown on Indonesians resisting colonial rule in South Sulaw

Ari Susanto, Yogyakarta – Islamic radical groups in Yogyakarta attempted to storm a screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary film "Senyap" ("The Look of Silence") at Sunan Kalijaga State Islam

The United Nations special rapporteur on torture has criticised the Indonesian government's breakup of demonstrations in West Papua last year, saying it breached international conventions on tortur

Jakarta – Legislators, historians and human rights activists have hailed a local military commander's move to have his soldiers in Semarang, Central Java, watch "The Look of Silence" by award-winni

Semarang – Hundreds of members of the military command in Central Java's capital, Semarang, attended the screening of "Senyap" ("The Look of Silence") last week by award-winning American director J

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo, already under increasingly heavy fire over the imminent execution of 11 drug convicts, on Wednesday was presented with a lengthy to-do list courtesy of Amnesty Inte

Jakarta – A seminar held to discuss accessibility to health services for victims of Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purge was disrupted by Indonesia's most notorious hardline Islamic group on Tu

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has slammed the disbanding of meeting of victims of human rights violations in West Sumatra on Sunday February 22.

Jakarta – Papuans and human rights advocates are concerned that President Joko Widodo's visits and campaign promises to the province are merely ceremonial rather than indicative of real change for

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will continue a inquiry into alleged gross human rights violations that occurred in relation to mass murders li

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights, or Komnas HAM, is intensifying its investigation of alleged human rights violations in security forces' deadly shooting of

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police questioned on Tuesday US journalist Allan Nairn as a witness in a libel case implicating former National Intelligence Agency (BIN) head AM Hendropriyono.

A prominent Australian human rights lawyer has welcomed a statement of support for West Papuans by Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O'Neill, saying it has "been a long time coming".

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Lawmakers have reprimanded the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) for making moves that they deemed as biased against the government.

Jakarta – The Indonesian government should take decisive action to address religious intolerance and a rollback in women's rights, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a newly released report.

Jakarta – Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo should uphold human rights in Papua and bring perpetrators of rights abuses to justice.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo not to lose focus on human rights issues now that his government is focusing more

Jakarta – Human Rights Watch has lamented President Joko Widodo's insistence on reviving executions of condemned inmates, calling it a "cruel" position to take with no proven deterrent effect.

President Widodo has spoken of the need for greater respect for human rights in Indonesia. He needs to back up those words with concrete actions. – Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director

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Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The police continue their investigation into Tuesday's nonfatal shooting of anticorruption activist Mathur Husaini, 47, of Bangkalan regency, Madura Island, East Java.

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Bangkalan, East Java – Activists have called for a draft regulation to protect nongovernmental organization workers after an activist in Bangkalan, East Java was ambushed and shot in front of his h

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has urged the police to thoroughly investigate the shooting of an anticorruption activist in Bangka

The Australia West Papua Association says there was no improvement in the human rights situation in the region in 2014, despite some governments claiming abuses against Papuans are a thing of the p

Jakarta – The Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) reported on Sunday that most witnesses that had applied for protection last year were involved in cases of alleged corruption and human rig

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHR Committee) has demanded that the Indonesian government fulfill its promise of submitting a long-overdue report on the s

Paulina Quintao – The bodies of many victims shot dead by the Indonesian military during the Santa Cruz massacre 23 years ago remain missing.

The Australia West Papua Association says there was no improvement in the human rights situation in the region in 2014, despite some governments claiming abuses against Papuans are a thing of the p

The spokesperson for the global Free West Papua Campaign claims up to 1000 police and military deployed to the Timika region in West Papua have tortured people in the area.

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Indonesia's Human Rights Committee announced on Thursday that it had formed a team to investigate possible human rights abuses committed in the fatal shootings of at least

Jakarta – A total of 53 people are being questioned over the fatal shootings of at least five young civilians by security forces in Papua earlier this month, police say, but there are d

The climate of fear in Papua inhibits local people from publicly discussing security force abuses.

Venidora Oliveira – Newly appointed human rights ombudsman Silverio Pinto says he is ready to ready to continue to implementing the Human Rights and Justice Provedoria's (PDHJ) 10 year

The chair of the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights has blamed police abuses in Papua province on the failure of the force to "adapt" to a democratic Indonesia.

Jakarta – The national human rights agency has reaffirmed its support for the screening of "Senyap," or "The Look of Silence," throughout Indonesia, stating that this was a part of huma

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Experts and activists have urged the Indonesian government to disclose documents related to the nationwide mass-killing incidents that took place from 1965 t

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) released its year-end report, announcing that the majority of human rights violations in 2014

Suherdjoko and Arya Dipa, Semarang/Bandung – Victims and activists across the country commemorated Human Rights Day, which falls on Dec.

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Admin MS, Jakarta – Commemorating International Human Rights Day, peaceful actions were held in several Indonesian cities calling on the administration of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo

Abu Pane, Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla (JK) has insisted that the government will not apologies for past cases of human rights violations.

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo reiterated on Tuesday that he is committed to resolving past human rights cases.

Yogyakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo grants clemency for Eva Susanti Bande, a human rights activist that has been jailed for defending farmers in Luwuk, South Sulawesi.

Jakarta – The Indonesian authorities should prevent the use of excessive force, which has often led to fatalities, in dealing with civil protests in Papua, a New York-based human rights

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, Malang, East Java – The National Commission on Human Rights has honored slain human rights defender Munir Said Thalib with its inaugural award, 10 years after his mur

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Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Following the recent release on parole of his convicted killer, the 2004 murder case of outspoken human rights defender Munir Said Thalib needs to be reopened,

Indra Budiari and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno is in the hot seat after human rights activists and family mem