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

A former prisoner revealed on Metro TV on Tuesday the systematic abuse faced by new prison inmates unless they are able to provide security money payments to guarantee their own welfare

Febriamy Hutapea – Pramono Anung, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, said he was shocked after finding out that some prisoners at East Jakarta's Pondok Bambu Detention Cent

The 'judicial mafia' eradication task force conducted an unscheduled inspection at Pondok Bambu Detention Center in East Jakarta on Sunday night and discovered that a number of inmates

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Last Thursday's testimony by three-star police general Susno Duadji in the trial of the murder of Nasruddin Zulkarnain, has broken the public's trust in the

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – While the murder of Nasruddin Zulkarnaen was initially regarded by police and the public as just another murder case, shocking surprise after surprise has em

Jakarta – Several human rights group in Indonesia condemned on Wednesday the appointment of Lieutenant Genral Sjafrie Sjamsoedin, as the Vice Defense Minister for his previous positions

Jakarta – The Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has voiced its strong opposition to the appointment of Lt. Gen.

Amir Tejo, Pasuruan (East Java) – A court here on Wednesday sentenced a woman to 30 days in prison after finding her guilty of stealing cookies worth Rp 19,000 ($2.05) while she was han

Camelia Pasandaran – By far the biggest controversy surrounding Wednesday's inauguration ceremony for a number of new deputy ministers was not the debate about a bloated cabinet, nor wa

Jakarta – A coalition of non-government organisations (NGOs) have expressed their opposition to the appointment of Lieutenant General Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin as Deputy Minister of Defense s

Anwar Khumaini, Jakarta – Newly appointed Deputy Minister of Defence Lieutenant General Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin has already once been refused entry into the United States.

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesian rights group Imparsial on Wednesday expressed concerns over the government's reluctance to do away with the death penalty.

Camelia Pasandaran & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The Constitutional Court has been praised recently for its efforts to curb corruption in the country.

Jakarta - A existence of a human rights court and ad hoc human rights judges needs to be reexamined.

Nivell Rayda – After several high-profile criminal defamation cases in 2009, analysts said on Friday that the House of Representatives must pass legislation to remove articles on defama

Jakarta – The National Commission for Child Protection said thousands of Indonesian children had become the prey of sex traffickers due to poverty and economic problems.

Muhammad Taufiqqurahman, Jakarta – The Solidarity Action Committee for Munir (Kasum) sees 2009 as a year of gloom that failed to provide any clarity in the ongoing investigation of Muni

Heru Andriyanto – Indonesian woman Prita Mulyasari has been cleared of criminal defamation charges by Tangerang District Court on Tuesday in the case brought against her by doctors from

Nivell Rayda & Nurfika Osman – A controversial new book has inflamed passions over the PT Bank Century bailout with claims that the Democratic Party received illegal campaign contri

Ismira Lutfia - A new information technology crimes bill looks set to spark intense public debate next year given its high priority on the House of Representative's 2010 National Legisl

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar has admitted the need to revise "sensitive" article on defamation in the 2008 Information and Electronic Trans

Jakarta – The National Commission for Child Protection attributed the increasing number of crimes committed by children to trauma related to human rights abuses.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission will summon 62 judges, out of the country's total 6,300, for questioning in connection with "problem" rulings handed down in court.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta – The struggle for human rights is universal, unrestricted and equal, whatever the person's tribe, religion or race.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The draft government regulation on bugging, which could limit the antigraft's inception authority, met jeers from human right activists who said it woul

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The government will need a law, and not a mere, decree, if it wishes to regulate wiretapping operations, say anticorruption activists.

Irawaty Wardhany, Jakarta – The son of a woman who was sentenced 45 days imprisonment after being found guilty of stealing three cacao fruits worth only Rp 1,500 (15 US cents) has quest

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Police are questioning 10 officers from their Mobile Brigade (Brimob) unit in connection with a shooting incident last week in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra.

Jakarta – As thousands of people joined rallies across the country to mark International Human Rights Day on Thursday, human rights watchdogs announced that the state still falls short

Jakarta – A Papuan priest and a late labor activist were conferred Thursday with the prestigious Yap Thiam Hien Award, presented to those showing the most dedication to the upholding of

Kinanti Pinta Karana – The civil lawsuit against Prita Mulyasari would be dropped, a spokesman for Omni Hospital said on Friday, however her lawyer has said that Prita should also be re

Camelia Pasandaran – Thousands of human rights activists converged in Central Jakarta and the State Palace on Thursday to mark International Human Rights Day and lambasted President Sus

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women urged the government to review a number of sharia-based bylaws deemed discriminative against women as part of

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the occasion of the Human Rights Day 2009

Candra Malik, Yogyakarta – The country's justice system has once again found itself uncomfortably in the spotlight, this time over the arrest and jailing of a Yogyakarta grandfather for

Heru Andriyanto – Activists on Tuesday held a rally outside the Attorney General's Office in South Jakarta, demanding that prosecutors challenge the acquittal of the former intelligence

Dessy Sagita, Heru Andriyanto & Febriamy Hutapea – A week after losing her appeal in a controversial defamation suit, Prita Mulyasari now has more than enough money to pay off the R

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Residents of Rengas subdistrict, Ogan Ilir regency, reported Monday the regency police's Mobile Brigade Unit's (Brimob) Friday attack to the South Sumatra pro

The US Department of State in October published the latest in its series of "Background Notes" regarding Indonesia.

Papuan priest Yohanes Jonga has been named the recipient of the 2009 Yap Thiam Hien Award, the country's most prestigious human rights accolade, for his fearless struggles in the troubl

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Eleven residents in Renggas village, Payaraman district, Ogan Ilir regency, South Sumatra, were wounded when members of the local police Mobile Brigade Unit a

Nivell Rayda & Kinanti Pinta Karana – Just two days after she lost an appeal in the Banten High Court over a civil defamation suit brought against her by Omni hospital, Prita Mulyas

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – A human rights organization has filed an amicus brief with a district court to support plaintiffs in a class action on forced evictions at Papanggo Ujung, No

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Human rights groups this week were assured by the government that it would strengthen the security of persons who would come forward as witnesses to a crime.

Indonesia's poorest province, Papua, is once again in the spotlight over its human rights record.

Matt Crook, Dili – East Timor's leaders say bringing to justice perpetrators of atrocities committed during the Indonesian army's occupation would sour relations between the neighbourin