Introduction

Tito Belo, Dili – The construction of a luxury hotel near East Timor's capital has uncovered machine-dug graves containing remains of people who may have been killed during the country'

Dili – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta on Wednesday denied claims by Amnesty International that he would support a tribunal for abuses committed during Indonesia's occupation.

Australian human rights activists are outraged that the Australian Government has bestowed Australia's highest civilian honour, the Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia, on Indo

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A number of NGOs concerned with human rights filed a report to the Judicial Commission on alleged judiciary corruption practices in the 1984 Tanjung Priok ri

Issues such as the application of the death penalty in Indonesia and the unresolved case of the killing of five Australian journalists on the eve of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor i

Jakarta – The international community continues to focus on the Indonesian government's handling of the murder of human rights activist Munir.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Indonesian military on Tuesday said it doubted claims by Amnesty International that East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta had promised to support the esta

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Sara Everingham – East Timor's latest attempt to create a brighter future has unearthered a tragic reminder of its turbulent past, with the construction of a new luxury hotel and golf c

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – A solidarity group for the murdered activist Munir has given the President a list of legal options to unravel the mystery behind the murder after the l

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Kamaruddin approached his wife and told her that he would go out and try to catch fish for their next meal.

Anita Rachman & Ismira Lutfia – Local and international rights advocates will detail the government's lack of progress in protecting human rights at the UN Human Rights Council's pl

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on US President Barack Obama to press Indonesia over rights progress, military reform and religious freedom during his visit t

Nivell Rayda – Human Rights Watch on Friday called on US President Barack Obama to make human rights a key issue for discussion during his visit to Indonesia next month.

Dear President Obama,

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H.E. the Permanent Representative

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Lindsay Murdoch – Lawyers representing Angelita Pires, the lover of East Timor's slain rebel leader Alfredo Reinado, say she has been "viciously vilified" by people in positions of powe

On Friday February 19, there was something different taking place at the Army's Special Forces or Kopassus headquarters in Cijantung, East Jakarta.

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – A police tribunal in Palembang, South Sumatra, has ordered detentions ranging from two to three weeks for 22 members of the police's Mobile Brigade who shot f

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – If he wanted to, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono could clear up the mystery surrounding the alleged murders and disappearances of 13 activists during the t

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Muninggar Saraswati & Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesian human rights activists have used a meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington in the hope t

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The families of students and activists who disappeared during the 1997-98 political unrest stepped up pressure on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednes

Dili – East Timorese prosecutors Thursday sought up to 20 years' jail for 28 people including an Australian citizen charged over the attempted assassination of the president and prime m

Pandaya, Jakarta – The 2007 Coastal and Islet Management Law is yet to be functional, but an alliance of activists are already seeking to shoot it down.

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – The Yogyakarta branch of the Alliance of Independent Journalists' (AJI) has called for the reopening of the murder case of journalist Fuad Muhamad Syafruddin,

Sara Everingham – Lawyers for a Timorese-born Australian woman standing trial over an alleged plot to assassinate East Timor's President say new evidence has come to light that further

Lawyers for a Timorese-born Australian woman standing trial over an alleged plot to assassinate East Timor's President say new evidence has come to light that further undermines the pro

Adam Gartrell – One of Australia's top forensic pathologists has added to doubts about the official account of the alleged attempt to assassinate East Timor's top political leaders.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The former head of Indonesia's anti-corruption watchdog, Antasari Azhar, has been found guilty of masterminding the murder of a business executive and rival for th

Former anticorruption agency chief Antasari Azhar has been found guilty of ordering the murder of state firm director Nasrudin Zulkarnaen and was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – A case review on the 2004 murder of rights activist Munir Said Thalib will open up the possibility of charging the National Intelligence Body (BIN) wit

Heru Andriyanto & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A sensational murder case that combined high-wire politics, sex and dark rumblings of conspiracy ended on Thursday in the South Jakarta

The Attorney General ignores the recommendation of the National Commission for Human Rights while victims commemorate the 21st anniversary of the atrocities.

Hudaiva gazed into the distance as she spoke about her son Arif, who disappeared in Jakarta in May, 2008.

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Excellencies,
Members of the United Nations Security Council
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Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – A string of murders, mutilations and corpse rapes of Indonesian street children has prompted outrage and led political leaders to question the lack of a s

Jakarta – The coordinator of the politics, law and human rights division of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), Edwin Partogi, said Kontras was questio

Dessy Sagita – Religious leaders on Tuesday criticized the Ministry of Religious Affairs for being against acknowledging religions and faiths other than the six major religions currentl

Kompas – The families of the victims of forced disappearances in 1997-1998 are hoping that the government will soon form a team to search for the 13 people still missing.

Heru Andriyanto – The death sentence being sought for former antigraft czar and murder suspect Antasari Azhar has reignited debate over capital punishment in a country with more than 10

Arientha Primanita & Zaky Pawas – The Jakarta city administration has been forced to drop a controversial plan to stage raids to catch street children and subject them to physical e

The Jakarta city administration said on Wednesday that it would join a police initiative to round up street children and physically examine their anuses for evidence of sexual abuse, a

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Home Ministry says it has revoked 706 "problematic" economic bylaws during the first 100 days of the new government, citing they breach higher regulations.

Heru Andriyanto – A thirst for blood and double standards in the graft-tainted prosecutor's office were behind the push to sentence to death former anticorruption czar Antasari Azhar an

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Human Rights Commission considers the government ignored upholding human rights in Papua in 2009.

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is being asked to immediately issue a presidential regulation in accordance with a request by the 2004-2009 House of Representatives (DPR) t

Ulma Haryanto – Amid public outrage over the revelation that moneyed convicts could serve their prison sentence in luxury, Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar on Monday pr

Hans David Tampobolon and Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Even after public pictures of five-star hotel facilities given to rich prisoners inside their cells, the government has yet to take fi