Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Australia has sent an official to Maluku to investigate the alleged torture of political detainees by Indonesia's elite antiterror unit Detachment 88 (Densus 88

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – After years of being denied access to proper medical treatment, Yusuf Sipakoly, a political prisoner being detained in Ambon, Maluku, died at the age of 52 on Mo

Tom Allard – Yonias Siahaya's eyes, wide open and full of fear, shift constantly.

Tom Allard, Maluku – Australia has sent an official to the Indonesian province of Maluku to investigate claims that Indonesia's elite counter-terrorism unit, Detachment 88, which Austra

Adam Gartrell – Australia should press Indonesia to ensure its elite anti-terrorism squad obeys the law and upholds human rights, an expert says.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – There are strong indications that the police committed "serious violations of human rights" when people rioted after a man died in police custody in Buol, Ce

Buol, Central Sulawesi – New evidence of alleged human rights abuses by Indonesian security forces in Buol, Central Sulawesi, has emerged.

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Leading human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on the government to establish a fact-finding team to probe last Tuesday's deadly shooting of eigh

Farouk Arnaz, Anita Rachman & Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – National Police Chief Gen.

Palu, Indonesia – Indonesian police said Friday they had arrested 11 colleagues over the killing of six people when officers opened fire on a violent mob earlier this week.

Maire Leadbeater – New Zealand's diplomacy with respect to Indonesian-controlled West Papua, especially in light of its aid to the Indonesian military and to the police in West Papua, h

Jakarta – Far from the glamor connected to international commemorations, families of victims of forced disappearances and gross human rights violations gathered to mark the Internationa

Putri Prameshwari, Jakarta – The law on freedom of information received its first major test on Wednesday when an antigraft watchdog reported the education minister for failing to discl

Palu, Central Sulawesi – Indonesian police opened fire and killed five people when an angry mob attacked their station with firebombs in a protest over the death of a man in custody, po

Jakarta – The National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) is urging the government to provide better protection to people living with mental illness following the lynching of two

Lindsay Murdoch – The President of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, has pardoned 23 rebels involved in attacks in 2008 during which he was shot in the back and almost died.

Farouk Arnaz – The government is not serious enough in its attempt to bring to justice those behind the death of Munir Said Thalib, critics said ahead of the sixth anniversary of the mu

Arghea Desafti Hapsari – Human rights and labor activists on Friday called on the government to take immediate action to assist 345 convicted Indonesians facing the death sentence in ne

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Rights activists proposed Thursday that the intelligence bill should accommodate a monitoring mechanism and rehabilitate people who become the wrong target o

Prodita Sabarini, Yogyakarta – International researchers and activists gathered in Yogyakarta to network and develop better strategies to advocate sexual rights.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The police's arbitrary discretion has come under public criticism again following the arrest and detention of nine people for alleged subversion by pla

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Publicized incidents of suspected torture of separatists in eastern Indonesia have alarmed rights groups, who say further reform is needed to eradicate the kin

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today congratulated U.S. Congress members for their letter to Indonesian president, Dr. H.

Jakarta – Human rights activists are urging the government to revoke existing local administration rulings that have resulted in the sealing of churches and mosques, mainly in Java.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Security in Puncak Jaya, Papua, continues to deteriorate with the latest incident on Wednesday resulting in the death of a civilian.

Jakarta – More than 150 lawyers, activists and public investigators have formed the Public Interest Lawyer Network (PIL-Net) aimed at providing free services to marginalized people.

Jakarta – Children's rights activists are pushing for the passage of the juvenile criminal justice system bill that aims to provide more protection for and guarantee the rights of juven

West Papuan activists have voiced disappointment that the issue of West Papua was not brought up at the Forum Leaders Summit in Port Vila.

No official decision was made at a special sitting of the upper house of the Papua provincial parliament to formally return special autonomy status to the Indonesian Government in Jakar

Jakarta – Indonesia is letting radical Islamists trample the constitutional rights of minorities, leading to inter-communal violence, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The prevailing violence being committed by police and military personnel to quell separatist sentiment in resource-rich Papua would cease if the centra

Fifty members of the United States Congress have called on President Barack Obama to hold Indonesia accountable for what they call slow motion genocide in the Papua region.

John M.

Jakarta – Jakarta Police said that a 15-second video that depicts a police cruiser hitting a student protester and flinging him into the air was faked in an attempt to defame the instit

Jakarta – An Indonesian student protester struck by a police car during a demonstration in 2008 filed a complaint with the National Commission of Human Rights in Central Jakarta on Thur

Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – A student on Thursday reported police officers to the National Commission on Human Rights for a hit-and-run that happened at a street protest more than two years a

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Fourteen years after "Black Saturday" on July 27, 1996, when several democratic activists were killed and hundreds more arrested under then president Soehart

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The government has done virtually nothing to bring to justice those who 14 years ago launched a violent attack on pro-democracy activists that precipitated th

Jakarta Police have launched an investigation after a video emerged of a police car striking a student protester and sending him flying before speeding off – not because of the actions

Zack Petersen – Putri Kanesia, a lawyer at Kontras, may not be at today's protest of renewed ties between the US military and the Kopassus special forces unit, which has been accused of

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The nation's witness protection agency has begun assigning security guards and legal assistance to antigraft activist Tama Satrya Langkun, who was brutally assau

Jakarta – The National Commission for Children's Protection says it had recorded 1,826 cases of violence, sexual assault and incest against children across Indonesia in the first five m

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – An authority to adjudicate constitutional complaints will open the Constitutional Court's door for those wanting to contest rights-breaching regulation

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Families of victims of past human rights violations on Wednesday sought the assistance of the country's largest Islamic organization in pressuring the governm

Jakarta – Indonesia has yet not overturned many laws allowing torture – which the country must do as part of a UN agreement signed almost 25 years ago, a researcher says.

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People who committed war crimes in East Timor during Indonesia's 1975-1999 occupation are going unpunished because of a loophole in the country's penal code, Amnesty International says.

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – The National Commission on Human Rights has accused police in Mojokerto, East Java, of gross human rights abuses in their treatment of suspected rioters arrested d

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Justice and Human Rights Ministry plans to take action on reports alleging the torture of Ambonese and Papuan prisoners arrested by the National Police's