Dili – Justice in East Timor has traditionally been measured out in water buffaloes.

Andra Wisnu, Denpasar – The recent legal battle over the ownership of traditional motifs has demonstrated the failure of Indonesian copyright law to protect local artisans and their fut

Dili – The United Nations aims to complete investigating nearly 400 cases related to the bloodshed surrounding East Timor's 1999 independence vote from Indonesia, the chief UN investiga

For many in East Timor, access to the justice system is almost impossible.

Dili – As a girl, Laura Pina was not expected to slave in the kitchen simply by virtue of her gender. Then she got married.

Connie Levett – Guy Campos, the East Timorese man accused of high-level collaboration with the Indonesian military involving kidnapping and torture of East Timorese citizens during Indo

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Members of two organizations clashed outside the Central Jakarta district court building Thursday as Rizieq Shihab's trial continues.

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The Golkar Party has failed in its apparent attempt to keep chief justice Bagir Manan in office, after the House of Representatives decided to delay passing the

The Indonesian authorities must take immediate action to investigate the torture of Papuan prisoner Ferdinand Pakage, who is detained at Abepura Prison, Papua.

The Indonesia Human Rights Committee has sent Minister Goff about the latest arrests in West Papua – following attempts by the people to join together to raise the Morning Star flag.

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – National Alliance for the Freedom of Faith and Religion (AKKBB) activists M.

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Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – Top intelligence officials held a series of meetings with former Garuda Indonesia chief Indra Setiawan to plot the murder of human rights activist Munir Said

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The revision of the Supreme Court law allowing justices to stay in office until the age of 70 will obstruct reforms within the country's judicial system, dubbed

Jakarta – A witness Tuesday supported earlier testimonies that the alleged plot to murder human rights activist Munir Said Thalib was linked to the State Intelligence Agency (BIN).

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – All three hearings related to the ambush at the National Monument (Monas) park were cut short Monday after two defendants refused to appear and a witness in t

The remains of five people have been uncovered from eroded soil on the boundary of Dili's international airport.

Connie Levett – Jose Belo identified the face in the picture as Guy Campos, claiming the East Timorese man was present when he was interrogated and tortured by the Indonesian Special Fo

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Members of the National Alliance for Freedom of Faith and Religion (AKKBB) decided not to appear as witnesses in court Thursday without a security guarantee f

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – A witness on Tuesday testified that the alleged plot to murder prominent human rights campaigner Munir Said Thalib was linked to the State Intelligence Agency

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Witnesses from the National Alliance for the Freedom of Faith and Religion (AKKBB) announced they would boycott trials on the June ambush at the National Monu

Jakarta – Former president director of state airline company Garuda Indonesia, Indra Setiawan, confessed Monday that pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto was assigned as a Corporate Secu

Jakarta – Press groups are deeply concerned that the newly-passed law on electronic media could pose a threat to press freedom in Indonesia.

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Indonesia's judiciary earned poor marks from expatriate business executives for having the worst system in Asia, in a survey conducted by a Hong Kong consulti

Introduction

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – An alliance of NGOs has rejected a government proposal to increase the retirement age of Supreme Court judges to 70.

Lucy Williamson, Jakarta – East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta has accused members of the UN Security Council of "extraordinary hypocrisy".

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Fatimah Azzahra, the daughter of a 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre victim, shook hands with Paramadina University rector Anies Baswedan after being awarded a scholar

Jakarta – The Talangsari incident in Lampung regency in February 1989 is threatened with the same fate as other cases of gross human rights violations.

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court on Tuesday ruled it would continue with the trial of former top intelligence official Muchdi Purwopranjono, charged with prem

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – In what is being denounced as a major blow to press freedom in the country, a court – dubbed "the graveyard for press freedom" – on Tuesday found Tempo guilty

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a long-awaited bill aimed at strengthening the authority of the National Ombudsman Commission (KON) in its superv

Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono defended on Tuesday "brutal" actions committed by the military against insurgents in Talangsari village, Lampung, in 1989.

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is set to push through the pornography bill in October, despite ongoing controversy over the draft law's vague definition of pornogr

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Stigmatized as rebels, victims of the bloody Talangsari tragedy in East Lampung asked the government on Friday to rehabilitate their names and give the

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – State prosecutors on Thursday defended their charges of premeditated murder against former State Intelligent Agency (BIN) deputy chief Muchdi Purwopranjono, a

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – While police, prosecutors and judges are busily denying accusations of wrongful arrest and prosecution over the murder of Muhammad Asrori, the case has revealed

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – Former senior intelligence official Muchdi Purwopranjono pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the 2004 murder of a prominent human rights campaigner, claiming the ch

Another State Intelligence Agency (BIN) official had a stronger motive for murdering human rights activist Munir, Muchdi Purwopranjono's team of lawyers said Tuesday.

Jakarta – A former top Indonesian spy pleaded not guilty Tuesday to ordering the murder by poisoning of a celebrated human rights activist who had exposed military abuses.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary
I. Introduction
II. The Security Sector

For the part six weeks, a group of forensic anthropologists from Australia and Argentina have been in East Timor searching for a mass grave allegedly used to bury hundreds of East Timor

Jakarta – Indonesia has seized 134 million dollars from a firm linked to Suharto's youngest son, reports said Saturday, in the latest move to bring the ex-dictator's family to account f

Jakarta – The majority of suspects in Jakarta are subjected to brutality while in police custody, a recent study claims.

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Legal experts and civil society groups welcomed a US Federal court ruling Thursday to proceed with a trial against US energy giant ExxonMobil, which stands accus

Ramadhian Fadillah, Jakarta – ExxonMobil is to be taken to court for allegedly supporting human rights violations by the Indonesian military (TNI) in Aceh.

Stephen Coates, Jakarta – The Indonesian military's links to human rights abuses while helping foreign mining firms are being exposed in a lawsuit by local villagers against US energy g

Jakarta – Indonesia's armed forces chief dismissed Thursday a US federal court judge's ruling that ExxonMobil must face a lawsuit over alleged killings and torture by troops in Aceh pro

Washington – ExxonMobil must face a lawsuit filed by Indonesian villagers alleging that the US oil giant is liable for killings and torture committed by military security forces, a fede