Nurfika Osman – Violence on the scale of the May 1998 riots that marked the downfall of former President Suharto could occur once again amid the growing climate of intolerance, activist

Jayapura – Jakarta frequently intimidates Papua in the name of the unity and integrity of the Republic of Indonesia, even though such a stance creates a culture of fear among Papuan off

Kupang - The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) said the Belu military battalion was responsible for the death of local resident Charles Mali last March.

Jakarta – The government has revoked 4,000 bylaws deemed unjust, discriminatory and in violation of human rights.

Today, May 1, 2011, We the people of West Papua mediated by the West Papua National Committee [KNPB] give our statement that:

Ari Saputra, Jakarta – Reports of moves by member of the House of Representative's (DPR) Commission I on defense, foreign affairs and communication to overturn the United States ban on

Heru Andriyanto – Deputy Attorney General Darmono says his office had no immediate plans to file a case review against former National Intelligence Agency chief Maj. Gen.

Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office on Wednesday said a former airline employee who was sentenced to a year in jail for a minor role in the murder of renowned rights campaig

Dessy Sagita – Indonesian activists on Sunday criticized the US government for praising Indonesia's progress on human rights, saying that the barometer used for the report could be misl

Ulma Haryanto – Indonesia has repeatedly failed to achieve conclusive justice for victims of state-sponsored human rights violations during 13 years of the reform era, according to a ne

The deputy chairman of the Papuan branch of Komnas HAM, the National Human Rights Commission, Mathius Murib, has accused the regional authorities of lack of commitment to solve human ri

Jakarta – The deliberations on the Draft State Intelligence Law cannot be separated from the historical context of the role of intelligence agencies in past cases of human rights violat

Jakarta – Suciwati, the wife of murdered human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, said the plan by the Hague, the Dutch capital, to name one of its streets after Munir was ironic becaus

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Decades of armed conflict in Aceh may be officially over, but scars remain from that tumultuous time that, as people like Reza Idri insist, should never be fo

KontraS Papua, the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, is convinced that the detention of five nurses by the police in Papua is a violation of their human rights.

Jakarta – Threats against workers, democracy and human rights activists have increased in 2010.

Kupang – Amnesty International (AI) asked the government to form an independent body to investigate allegations of torture that led to the death of one person and to severe injuries for

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – One person died and six others were injured when they were held captive by the 744 Infantry Battalion/Satya Yudha Bakti (SYB) Military Command in Atambua, East

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Today, 85-year-old Mbah Pujiati will do what she has done every Thursday since Jan.

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Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Members of House of Representatives' Commission III on legal affairs and laws, human rights and security opposed the proposal to endorse a bill that would gr

The chairman of DAP, the Papuan Traditional Council, Forkorus Yaboisembut, is reported as saying that the process of elimination of the Melanesian Race which is currently turning the in

Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) is pushing for corporations, both national and multi-national, to be deemed as parties that can also be held liable for human

Indonesian police said on Thursday that four officers would be charged over the "unforgivable" gang rape of a 15-year-old girl in Papua province.

Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday demanded a review of the increasing numbers of discriminatory bylaws being enacted by regional governments throughout

Ina Parlina – A coalition of NGOs has challenged the government with its own version of the state secrecy bill, saying this one was more "humane" and the government's one posed a threat

Heru Andriyanto – Activists on Tuesday said the Attorney General's Office should now have enough ammunition to launch further legal action against former top intelligence official Muchd

Banjir Ambarita – The family of a female detainee who was forced to perform oral sex on three officers at the Jayapura Police's detention center has reported the case to the National Co

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Jayapura Police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr.

Suciwati, the wife of murdered human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, is planning to issue a case review request to the Supreme Court on her civil case against PT Garuda Indonesia, th

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – The United Nations Security Council has urged East Timor to stop granting impunity for serious crimes as it extended the stay of the UN mission in the country.

A West Papuan student activist says the dialogue over self-determination aspirations is still very much alive among young West Papuans through social media like Facebook.

Arientha Primanita – The Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a contentious decree governing the use of wiretaps, calling it a violation of human rights and making it more diffi

The ramifications of the fast moving events in Libya and the middle east could be felt as far away as Papua in Indonesia, a Sydney Conference has been told.

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Jakarta – Indonesia's Judicial Commission has urged national flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia to comply with a Supreme Court verdict ordering the payment of compensation to Suciwati, th

Nivell Rayda & Farouk Arnaz – The Indonesian police's abysmal human rights record took yet another hit on Monday with the revelation that almost a quarter of all human rights compla

Ulma Haryanto – The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by flag carrier Garuda Indonesia and upheld an earlier ruling ordering the airline to pay damages to the widow of slain ri

The Supreme Court has rejected national flagship carrier PT Garuda Airlines' appeal in the case of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib's murder.

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Biak – The traditional Papuan community in Biak reported the current social and political situation in Papua to the first secretary for political affairs at the US embassy, Melanie Higg

Jakarta – The political events of 1965 are estimated to have cost the lives of millions of people.

Jakarta – A joint report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Indonesian Human Rights Watch (Imparsial) and the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violenc

The chairman of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in Jayapura, Victor Mambor, has called on the press in Papua to regularly monitor cases of human rights violations in Papua

Jayapura – Although Law 21/2001 on Special Autonomy (OTSUS) provides for the establishment of a human rights court in Papua, the fact is that this has not been done even though OTSUS is

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), an international human rights NGO with 164 member leagues across the world, together with KontraS and Imparsial, two leading Indone