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

Surabaya – The East Java branch of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization has reported Tempo Magazine to the Indonesia Press Council after the publication accused some of its clerics o

AWPA has called on the Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr to urgently raise concerns about the crackdown on peaceful activists in West Papua. Letter below.

Ezra Sihite & Arientha Primanita – Human rights groups went to the House of Representatives on Wednesday to demand political pressure on the government to act upon the recommendatio

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The Commonwealth Attorney-General should push for a full, independent and public investigation into the alleged involvement of an Indonesian counter-terrorism unit in human rights abuse

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Reports have been received from human rights investigators detailing a torture incident that occurred in Serui on October 17, 2012, under the command of notorious Serui Police Chief Roy

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua gubernatorial election process has resumed with the issuance of the Papua General Elections Commission (KPUD) Decree No. 33/2012, dated Oct.

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Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Leiden, the Netherlands – Three Dutch institutions – the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the Institute for

Jakarta – Human rights activists have criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration for its poor achievement in resolving human rights violations, saying the nation is

Firdha Novialita – Activists have urged a government minister who previously appeared to express sympathy with those involved in the 1965 purge of alleged communists to explain himself.

Michael Vatikiotis – Modern Indonesian history is a long tableau of violent struggle, first for freedom, then for power and, over much of the past 40 years, over faith and identity.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Several lawmakers have joined in calling for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice.

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Jakarta – Survivors of the 1965 anti-communist purge have deplored Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto's statement that the mass killings were just

An Oral Statement to the 21st Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization in general consultative status

Ezra Sihite – Calls for the national government to apologize and make reparations for the 1965 communist purge, in which up to two million people were killed, continue to fall on deaf e

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Ronna Nirmala & Bayu Marhaenjati – Indonesia emerged from the chaos of the 1965 communist purge, and survived the turbulence of the 1998 reformation, but the two events showed that

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Jakarta, Indonesia – TAPOL, a UK-based human rights watchdog, has urged Indonesia to address the 1965 Communist purge, as failure to do so would result in continued community divisions,

Jakarta – In spite of new evidence that the prosecution of alleged members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) after the failed 1965 coup was a gross human rights violation, survivo

Farouk Arnaz & Jonathan Vit – Papua Police arrested seven members of the pro-independence West Papua National Committee (KNPB) on Saturday in connection with an alleged bomb plot th

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A victim of the 1965 anticommunist purges in Medan, North Sumatra, Astaman Hasibuan, raised his voice in protest against the controversial film The Act of Killi

Hyginus Hardoyo – The declaration by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) that the 1965 purge of communists and their supporters was a gross violation of human rights im

Bambang Muryanto – For the first time, a state-sponsored investigation has concluded that the 1965-1966 killings following the 1965 alleged aborted coup was a "gross human rights violat

Ati Nurbaiti – Despite unresolved debates on the details of the power struggle of the 1960s, the arbitrary killings and the detention of hundreds of thousands of people in the mid-1960s

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Jakarta – Rights groups have blasted the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for doing very little to solve past human rights violations, despite being in power for alm

Presi Mandari – At 72, Sri Sulistyawati still remembers the day when two Indonesian soldiers placed a wooden plank across her belly and used her body as a see-saw, before she fainted fr

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Ismira Lutfia – The Human Rights Working Group has lamented Indonesia's refusal to accept specific recommendations to give foreign journalists access to Papua and to invite the UN's Spe

Jim Elmslie – Allegations that Australia is funding death squads in West Papua have brought the troubled province back to Australian attention.

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Ismira Lutfia – The Aceh provincial legislature's decision to further delay the setting up of a truth and reconciliation commission is a major setback to end impunity in the region, a l

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Jakarta – Families and victims of the Tanjung Priok riot urged the government to pay compensation to those affected by the violence in North Jakarta in 1984 that claimed 23 lives.

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The government's failure to bring to justice all parties responsible for the killing of prominent human rights activist Munir Said Thalib raises serious concerns about Indonesia's willi

Ulma Haryanto – Friday marked the eight-year anniversary of the death of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, but his struggle lives on in a new generation of activists.

Ulin Yusron & Ulma Haryanto – A small girl ran around on Thursday as dozens of her adult counterparts staged a protest to commemorate those kidnapped and killed in a string of unres

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – As the nation observed the eighth anniversary of the murder of Munir Said Thalib, people urged the government to launch a new investigation into the killin

Jayapura – At a time when the media is busily reporting about plans for a dialogue between Papua and Jakarta, following the visit to Papua by the Presidential Consultative Council under