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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

Camelia Pasandaran – The General Elections Commission says human rights had been left off the list of official topics for discussions during the upcoming presidential and vice president

Jakarta – An alliance of civil society groups has urged the General Elections Commission (KPU) to raise human rights issues during the presidential debates.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – The government has highlighted an alarming rise in sexual exploitation of children in Surabaya, Malang municipality and Malang regency, all in East Java.

Dessy Sagita, Muninggar Saraswati & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Following a public outcry, judicial authorities in Tangerang on Wednesday released a mother-of-two who had been detain

Jon Lamb – The people of Indonesia will go to the polls to elect a new president on July 8.

Febriamy Hutapea – After discussing their economic policies at a previous forum, the three presidential candidates may tackle human rights issues next, their campaign teams said on Frid

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Despite it being 11 years since Indonesia entered the reform era, attacks on freedom of expression and excessive force are still rampant across the archipela

Jakarta – Police have charged suspended Corruption Eradication Commission chief Antasari Azhar with the premeditated murder of businessman Nasruddin Zulkarnaen, which carries a maximum

Indonesia
Head of state and government Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Death penalty retentionist
Population 234.3 million
Life expectancy 69.7 years

Farouk Arnaz & Febriamy Hutapea – Lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously voted to update a 1992 Traffic Law, but ran into immediate controversy over a clause in the new version that requi

Heru Andriyanto – The investigation of Antasari Azhar's alleged role in the murder of Nasrudin Zulkarnaen had made little progress in the three weeks since his arrest, Antasari's lawyer

Heru Andriyanto – Human rights groups are blasting an Attorney General's Office plan to limit the window of time inmates facing the firing squad would be allowed to lodge a final case r

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The state secrecy bill being deliberated at the House of Representatives will prove to be nothing but a major setback for democracy in the country, by preven

Sunanda Creagh – Almost 40 human rights groups combined on Tuesday to claim Indonesia's reputation was being tarnished by the inclusion as vice presidential candidates of two former gen

Markus Junianto Silaholo & Ismira Lutfia – The National Human Rights Commission has demanded the House of Representatives halt drafting the controversial state secrecy bill because

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Indonesia may come under international scrutiny as two former generals alleged to be implicated in past human rights infringements are nominated to contest pr

Titania Veda – It has been 11 years since the bloody riots of May 1998 led to the resignation of then President Suharto.

Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Commission III on Law and Human Rights has pledged to push the government for greater action into addressing alleged human rights violations comm

Nurfika Osman, Heru Andriyanto & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The families of victims of the May 1998 riots have lashed out on the anniversary, expressing anger that the full story ha

Jakarta – The mothers of people abducted in the late 1990s joined victims themselves at a moot court in Jakarta on Monday to try those responsible for gross human rights violations comm

Jakarta – The flawed state secrecy bill still being deliberated at the House of Representatives could deny the public the right to get important information and alarm the control functi

The brother of an Australian woman accused of conspiring to assassinate East Timor's president and prime minister says he cannot believe the case is actually going to trial.

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – It is just "a matter of time" before Indonesia becomes a state signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC), a Foreign Ministry official said on Monday.

Jakarta – A coalition of civil society groups and human rights activists called on voters not to support candidates accused of committing human rights violations in the past.

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu, Central Sulawesi – Police shot two residents Tuesday evening while dispersing hundreds of people protesting a rock quarry in Damsol district, Donggala regency, Ce

La'o Hamutuk is a Timorese NGO which undertakes research, monitoring and analysis of development processes in Timor-Leste.

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Papuan Tineke Rumkabu, along with activists and relatives of human rights victims, met Argentinean human rights icons Lidya Taty Almeida and Aurora Morea of Les

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Recent bomb attacks linked to the legislative elections in troubled Papua province may have been orchestrated by a single group, police said Friday.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Families of activists missing since 1997 have called on candidates hoping to run in the July presidential election to avoid cooperating with parties led by in

Jakarta – Personal problems, laziness and the obligation to help their party achieve its goals have burdened legislators, raising doubts as to whether they can ratify dozens of crucial

The Union of Papuan Baptist Churches has added its voice to claims that the Indonesian military is engineering attacks in the province and blaming them on Papuan separatists.

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia's top court cleared Time magazine of defaming ex-dictator Suharto by alleging in a cover story that his family amassed a fortune during his rule.

The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) Victoria is calling on the Australian Government to make an urgent diplomatic representation to its Indonesian counterpart over escalating vi

Jakarta – On Wednesday, several NGOs filed a request for the Constitutional Court to review the 2009 Supreme Court law that extends the retirement age of justices to 70 years from 65 ye

Jakarta – On Wednesday, Central Jakarta District Court sentenced Ferry Juliantono to one year in prison for triggering a riot following a protest over the fuel price hike in June last y

Dili – It's been 10 years since Rudolfo dos Santos, then 14, watched as his neighbours and friends were shot, beaten and hacked to death by East Timorese and Indonesian anti-independenc

Amerindians in Guyana are supporting West Papua's calls for independence from Indonesia. West Papua is half of the island of New Guinea, which is located north of Australia.

A decade after a massacre intended to blunt East Timor's demands for independence, Lindsay Murdoch finds that the appetite for justice continues unabated.

On 4 April 2009, more than 200 people gathered in the town of Liquisa, Timor-Leste.

A group of Australian forensic scientists may have solved one of East Timor's greatest mysteries.

Jakarta – The government has arrested more than 150 people for raising flags symbolizing regional independence over the past two years, according to a report from Amnesty International.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court partially scrapped Tuesday two articles in the 2008 legislative election law, effectively allowing former convicts jailed for serious crimes to contes

Ronald May – Recent reports from Indonesia's West Papua of a raid on a military post by separatist fighters, and the news that a former West Papuan leader, Nicolaas Jouwe, has returned

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is "concerned" about the Indonesian government's failure to respect the rights of indigenous people in their own

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Civil groups in Southeast Asia urged the region's governments at a meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Friday to include more protection in the mandate for ASEAN's new

Indah Setiawati and Alit Kertaraharja, Denpasar – An estimated 60,000 children in Southeast Asia are being exploited to work in a multimillion dollar of commercial sexual businesses, a

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has come under fire from human rights groups as being execution-happy, with campaigners pointing out that 19

Novia Stephani – When Muji (not her real name), 61, joined Pemuda Rakyat, or People's Youth, in 1965, she never imagined her involvement in the youth wing of the Indonesian Communist Pa