Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has renewed calls for the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to keep its promises to uphold human rights.

Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office indicated on Thursday that it would likely request a Supreme Court review of the acquittal of former top intelligence official Muchdi Pur

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The Constitutional Court on Wednesday threw out a judicial review request over a Criminal Code article about provocation in public filed by former coordinating

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is implementing bureaucratic reforms halfheartedly, Gadjah Mada University's Indonesian Judiciary Supervisory Community (M

Joe Cochrane, Bogor – Irwansyah is in a bit of a bind.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda reportedly led a failed effort to strengthen the future powers of Southeast Asia's first regional human rights body during talks Sunday in Th

Ismira Lutfia – The Tangerang Prosecutor's Office, which has been roundly condemned for its handling of the Prita Mulysari case, has again been thrust into the public spotlight with its

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Indonesia has agreed to provide Timor Leste with a number of privileges in line with recommendations made by the final report of the Indonesia-Timor Leste Commi

Although the TNI commander Djoko Santoso claims the Free Papua Movement (OPM) was likely behind shooting attacks in West Papua on the weekend, it was reported in the Jakarta Globe (14 J

Denpasar – The National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has urged the Bali governor to help solve a lingering problem involving 84 farmers and the management of the Bali Pecatu

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Prosecutors are still deciding whether or not to file for a review of a Supreme Court ruling that saw a former intelligence official acquitted of all charges

Farouk Arnaz & April Aswadi – While publicly agreeing to cooperate in a joint operation to find the perpetrators of the deadly weekend ambushes near the US miner Freeport McMoRan's

Heru Andriyanto – New questions were being asked over the performance of prosecutors as the possibility that the mastermind behind the high-profile murder of rights activist Munir Said

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by prosecutors challenging the South Jakarta District Court's decision acquitting Muchdi Purwopranjono in the

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and the West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) today praised continued congressional attention to issues of human rights in Indonesia and Tim

Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of a former senior spy accused of ordering the deadly poisoning of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, a spokesman said

Farouk Arnas, Nivell Rayda & Heru Andriyanto – The Supreme Court has thrown out an appeal by prosecutors against the acquittal of former top intelligence official Muchdi Purwoprandj

The Indonesia Human Rights Committee has written individually to the 16 Pacific Island Heads of Government to urge them to make West Papua a priority for discussion and action at the Au

Joint statement by the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (Kontras)

Ed Davies & Sunanda Creagh – Presidential candidate Megawati Sukarnoputri on Friday defended her choice of a running mate accused of human rights abuses, saying that he had taken re

Armando Siahaan – The night of Oct. 21, 1965, was one that Putu Oka Sukanta will never forget.

Armando Siahaan – Countries and their citizens often have to face unpleasant truths about sordid episodes of the past.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesia's controversial special forces, which are trained by Australia, have been accused of new human rights abuses in the troubled province of Papua.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Amir Tejo – An activist claimed on Wednesday that the majority of Chinese-Indonesians believed Prabowo Subianto, who is currently running for vice preside

An Indonesian mother-of-two has been cleared of defamation charges after emails she wrote about poor treatment at a local hospital appeared on social networking website Facebook.

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Members of Indonesia's elite military special forces, Kopassus, have acted with legal impunity in Papua to detain, torture and beat up ordinary citizens, Human

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Training will go in one ear and out the other if the government does not make it clear to Kopassus that it will have zero tolerance for abuses by its soldiers.

Jakarta – Indonesians are in a better legal position to file a law suit against state and private institutions if they fail to provide adequate public services, as a result of a newly p

Adam Gartrell – Indonesian police routinely bash and torture criminal suspects and demand money and sex in exchange for better treatment, a new report says.

Stephen Coates, Jakarta – Indonesian police commonly beat and torture people in custody and offer better treatment in exchange for money and sex, Amnesty International said in a report

American Samoa's US Congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin says he drove moves to drop provisions on Indonesia's Papua from a Foreign Relations Bill in the US House of Representatives.

An Australian-based NGO is calling on Pacific Island leaders to go public over the intimidation of the indigenous people of the Indonesian region of Papua.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – While the government appears to uphold human rights at the policy making level, it fails to actually implement the laws it makes, a study has found.

Jakarta – Two pulp and paper companies denied allegations human rights violations recently occurred at their forestry concession areas in Riau.

Jakarta – "Dear Bapak Bambang, I do not like it here, I would rather be at home, pak, I want to go to school again, pak; I miss my parents, I promise I will not do what I did again, pak

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – We now have more and more hospitals to choose from.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla has failed to satisfactorily uphold human rights as it has only implemented

Fidelis Satriastanti – The National Commission on Human Rights criticized on Monday the Riau Police for failing to properly investigate the deaths of three villagers who were found afte

Jakarta – On July 3 the House of Representatives will take its final recess, putting the fate of a number of long awaited bills in uncertainty.

Heru Andriyanto – An unusually high number of complaints and scandals involving public prosecutors reflected the poor leadership of the Attorney General's Office, the head of the Commis

Jakarta – Vice presidential candidate Wiranto still defended his past performance in the military and the government, despite being bombarded by questions and condemnations from human r

Jakarta – Despite efforts to reform the judiciary and improve its overall performance, corrupt practices enforced by a "judicial mafia" are here to stay, a discussion was told Wednesday

Farouk Arnaz – Supporters of murdered rights activist Munir Said Thalib on Monday welcomed the Judicial Commission's decision to question the three judges who acquitted former intellige

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Heru Andriyanto – The Judicial Commission has questioned the three judges who acquitted former top intelligence official Muchdi Purwoprandjono of charges that he orchestrated the murder

Jakarta – At least three people were killed after police from Indonesia's anti-terror unit stormed an isolated airstrip occupied by a group of unidentified gunmen in Papua province, sta

Nivell Rayda – Despite an ongoing reform program, Justice and Human Rights Minister Andi Matalatta openly acknowledged on Sunday that the country's prisons were plagued by corruption, d

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The law governing electronic transmissions, under which housewife Prita Mulyasari was charged for e-mailing a complaint about her treatment by a hospital, shou

US-based Human Rights Watch on Friday called on Indonesia to look into the reported torture and abuse of prisoners in a jail in the province of Papua.