The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) went to the National Police headquarters on Friday to remind the police force to uphold human rights principles in dealing with extr

Farouk Arnaz – The new national human rights chief has vowed to work closely with police to address concerns about excessive use of force during ongoing counterterrorism raids in the Ce

The West Papua Advocacy Team is deeply concerned about the Government of Indonesia's unilateral decision to restrict the planned visit of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the pr

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Farouk Arnaz & Banjir Ambarita – A gunman shot at a member of the Indonesian Armed Forces and a civilian at a market in Puncak Jaya, Papua, on Thursday, killing the civilian and ser

Ronna Nirmala – Indonesia will pay more attention to human rights violations this year because the United Nations will assess the country's commitment in protecting civil and political

Grace Susetyo – Joshua Oppenheimer's controversial documentary "The Act of Killing" has attracted an overwhelming response since debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last

Rangga Prakoso – The Attorney General's Office plans to examine alleged gross human rights violations in 1965 and the killings of civilians by snipers from 1982 to 1985.

Antonia Timmerman & SP/Erwin Cristianson – Rights advocates on Saturday gave a poor review of Indonesia's performance in 2012 in terms of tackling corruption and securing human righ

Jakarta – Investigations into past human rights abuses are unlikely to be launched in the near future as the Attorney General's Office (AGO) continues to debate technicalities in the pr

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The national Timorese Alliance for an International Court (ANTI) and Amnesty International demand the United Nations (UN) together the International Court (IC) bring justice to authors

Antonia Timmerman – Indonesian authorities once again failed to address a host of significant human rights offenses in 2012 as abuses against religious and ethnic minorities, the poor a

There was a significant increase in the intensity of the conflicts and violence in Papua between August 2011 and December 2012.

Three former militia members and a former commander of the Besi Merah Putih (BMP: "Red White Iron in Indonesian) were imprisoned by the Dili District Court for between six and sixteen y

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – A London-based political-risk consultancy has cited Indonesia in its newly released Human Rights Atlas 2013 as a country with an "extreme" risk of human rig

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – Victims of serious human rights violations are demanding the government restore their good name and straighten out history with regard to the outrage

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Victims of the 1965 coup blamed on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) have praised a documentary on the alleged killings that took place in the coup's afterma

Despite the large number of people who disappeared during the 24-year Indonsesian occupation, Timor-Leste has not ratified the Missing Persons Convention unlike other nations like Malay

Jakarta – Mining and plantation companies are among the actors that should be held responsible for numerous human rights abuses in the country, according to a National Commission on Hum

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has named the police and companies as the top human rights violators in the country this year.

Ainur Rohmah and Bambang Muryanto, Semarang/Yogyakarta – International Human Rights Day, which fell on Monday, was marked with rallies staged by marginalized communities throughout the

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Ronna Nirmala & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Hundreds of human rights activists gathered in Jakarta on Saturday to commemorate the 47th birthday of slain activist Munir Said Thalib and u

Jakarta – It appears that fans of English singer and songwriter Sting expect more than just a few songs during his upcoming Jakarta concert next Saturday.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Thousands of people gathered on Sunday in front of the grave of Munir Said Thalib, a prominent human rights champion who was killed eight years ago but whose mur

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – In advance of the birthday of Munir Said Thalib, his family has launched a campaign to push the government to resolve the murder of the slain human rights a

Victims of alleged human rights violations in Indonesia, a country where human rights courts set up in 2000 have yet to convict a single case, are facing an uphill battle to bring perpe

Kanis Dursin – At the age of 82, former Indonesian political detainee Mudjayin wonders if he will ever see justice served.

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Rangga Prakoso – The National Commission on Human Rights will resubmit its landmark findings of past rights abuses by the state to the Attorney General's Office this week, after prosecu

Michael Bachelard – A film hailed as a masterpiece for its disturbing depiction of real-life mass murderers re-enacting the killing of alleged communists in the 1960s has not been submi

During the commemoration of International Day to End Impunity on Friday, the human rights watchdog Institute for Research and Advocacy (Elsam) had once again urged the government to pro

Jakarta – Victims of human rights abuses and rights advocacy groups are pushing the government to formally admit past human rights violations and apologize to families and survivors of

Rizky Amelia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Rights activists have lashed out at the Attorney General's Office for refusing to follow up on landmark findings of gross human rights viol

Jakarta – United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Navanethem Pillay has called for a full investigations into all cases of gross human rights violations in Indonesia.

Jakarta – Students took to the streets of Jakarta on Tuesday, demanding the government resolve the Semanggi I riot, which broke out exactly 14 years ago.

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), a non-governmental organization advocating human rights issues, has received the Emilio F.

Rights groups marking the 21st anniversary of the massacre of 270 Timorese by Indonesian forces are demanding justice for this and other crimes committed during Jakarta's occupation of

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The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) urged the United Nations, the US, and other governments to fulfill outstanding promises of justice for the many victims of Indonesia's

Andylala Waluyo, Jakarta – The chairperson of the Institute for the Study of the 1965-1966 Massacres (YPKP 65), Bejo Untung, told Voice of America (Indonesian language) that the victims

Jakarta – The decision by the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to dismiss the National Commission on Human Rights' (Komnas HAM) finding that the 1965 communist purge was a gross violatio

Jakarta – Attorney General Basrief Arief said the systematic persecution of alleged members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) after the failed 1965 coup was not a gross human righ

Rangga Prakoso, Ezra Sihite, Bayu Marhaenjati& Firdha Novialita – The Attorney General's Office has rejected a plea by the National Commission on Human Rights to conduct an official

Jakarta – Indonesia on Tuesday dismissed concerns voiced by human rights groups over its purchase of more than 150 tanks from Germany.

Alexandra Di Stefano Pironti – If the caste system existed in Indonesia the 10 elderly people who live in Jakarta's Jalan Kramat would surely be untouchables: for decades they and their

Police in London detained Peter Tatchell, an Australian-born human rights activist, on Wednesday after he unfurled the West Papuan Morning Star flag as Indonesian President Susilo Bamba