Rangga Prakoso – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) on Tuesday accused the Attorney General's Office of violating human rights in its handling of a bioremediation proj

The twenty first of May 1998 is celebrated by the Indonesians as the birth of reform in their country.

Jakarta – "I knew something was wrong," Hamidah, 57, said. Her son, 14-year-old Ahmad Zainuddin, or Udin, had never missed evening prayers, but that night, 7:15 p.m.

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Amnesty International has called for an immediate halt to the execution of three men, expected imminently.

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Despite undergoing a dramatic democratic transformation over the last decade, a new report released on Tuesday by the United States Department of State maintains that Indonesia is still

Wiji Thukul disappeared 15 years ago this month, along with many others lost in the upheaval of the student-led protests that forced Suharto out of power.

Is Mujiarso, Jakarta – Even when he was a political fugitive, Wiji Thukul could still joke.

Michael Bachelard – Johanes Lokobal sits on the grass that cushions the wooden floor of his little, one-room house. He warms his hands at a fire set in the centre.

Jakarta – The sluggish pace of a police investigation has led the family of Safira Raudatul Janah, 14, a victim of a stray bullet in Jl.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has expressed serious concerns over the crackdown on mass demonstrations across Papua since Tuesday, which reportedly includes ar

Alex Rayfield – For many people around the world the first day in May is a time a celebration, a day to remember how ordinary people won the right to the eight hour working day.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Constitutional Court chief Akil Mochtar said on Tuesday there was no need to fret about Aceh's official flag, which resembles the flag of the now-defunct separati

Yuliasri Perdani and Ansyor Idrus, Jakarta/Palembang – The National Police say two senior generals have been sent to investigate the deadly clash on Tuesday between protesters and polic

Farouk Arnaz – Four civilians were killed and 15 members of the police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) were injured after a demonstration in South Sumatra in favor of the creation of a new di

Ansyor Idrus, Palembang – Residents from Muara Rupit district, Musi Rawas regency in South Sumatra were continuing to block the Trans-Sumatra Highway on Tuesday following bloody clashes

Jakarta – Media watchdogs say that the press must be at the forefront of preserving the public's collective memory of human rights abuses and pushing the Indonesian government to resolv

Laura Dawson, Gabriel Kereh & Tito Summa Siahaan – The specter of a resurgence in violence in Aceh looms large unless past rights abuses are properly addressed, a human rights group

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta, Indonesia – An international rights group urged Indonesian authorities on Thursday to seek justice for victims of a separatist conflict in Aceh province that en

The Indonesian government has said it aims to approve within a month a plan that would free up vast swathes of protected virgin rainforest on Sumatra island for commercial exploitation.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Legislative Council (DPRA) is accelerating the deliberation of a provincial qanun (bylaw) to establish the Commission on Truth and Reconciliatio

Imran MA, Lhokseumawe – Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers and Sharia police (Wilayatul Hisbah) began conducted raids on motorcycle riders on the main roads of Lhokseumawe city in

Jakarta – Rights group the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has filed a report with the Indonesian Ombudsman complaining about the poor performance of th

Yohannie Linggasari – Rights activists have blasted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his failure to order a human rights tribunal set up to investigate the widespread abuses surro

The death of Malawian national Adami Wilson – Indonesia's first execution in four years – heightens the urgency for the government to end the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said on F

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Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The government will not set up an ad hoc human rights tribunal to prosecute those believed responsible for the 1998 kidnapping of activists in the near futur

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Hopes of seeing the generals allegedly responsible for the May 1998 riots dragged into an international rights tribunal have been dashed, after the Internati

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Five years after executing the three Bali bombers in 2008, Indonesia sent a drug convict to the firing squad on Thursday night, in a move human rights activi

Bagus BT Saragih, Headlines – Seven retired but politically wired Indonesian Military (TNI) generals held a meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the State Palace on Wednes

Yuliasri Perdani and Andi Hajramurni, Jakarta/Makassar – For the first time as a young couple, Vicar Munan and Nur Hikmah, took a flight from Makassar, South Sulawesi to Jakarta on Wedn

SP/Carlos Paath – The House of Representatives is still waiting to see if the government's human rights watchdog can resolve an internal dispute before it is forced to take over the bod

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The killing of eight Indonesian soldiers in two separate incidents in Papua late last month was the bloodiest attack on security forces in the Indonesian province for two years.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Human Rights defenders suspect the government's recent initiative to hold discussions on the possibility to open human rights tribunals were politically moti

Andjarsari Paramaditha, Jakarta – Bejo Untung was a 17-year-old Indonesian schoolboy when armed soldiers came to his village in 1965, forcing him on the run for years until he was caugh

Jakarta – A senior People's Conscience Party (Hanura) politician says he will not stop the government from forming a tribunal to probe alleged human rights violations involving the part

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The party of retired military commander Wiranto says it has no objection to a government plan to set up a human rights court that could deal with past cases i

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SP/Carlos Paath & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives has threatened to take over the country's main human rights body unless it can resolve a deeply polarizing

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Jakarta – Human rights activists have slammed the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) for deciding to shorten the commission's chairmanship term from two-and-a-half years t

Competitive, credible, and fair local elections in Jakarta and the province of West Kalimantan in 2012 underscored the ongoing transition from decades of authoritarian rule in Indonesia

Hayley Davis – Indonesia must do more to defend minority rights and free imprisoned activists to set an example for other consolidating democracies in the wake of the Arab Spring, New Y

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Legislators' recommendation for an ad hoc human rights court to be set up to probe past rights violations will likely be discussed in an upcoming meeting betw

Rangga Prakoso – The Attorney General's Office says it will work with the national rights commission to direct the latter's constant attempts to get prosecutors to open an inquest into