Jakarta – The AGO handed over Thursday the dossiers of former Garuda Indonesia president Indra Setiawan and former secretary to Garuda's chief pilot Rohainil Aini to the Jakarta Central

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The National Commission for Human Rights last week established a new ad hoc team to investigate the 1989 shooting at Talangsari village, Lampung, a commission

Jakarta – The terrorisation of the Papuan chief representative of the National Human Rights Commission or Komnas HAM, Albert Rumbekwan, could have an impact on Indonesia's image as a me

Ati Nurbaiti, Dili – A former pro-integration leader told a public hearing here Wednesday that many Timorese civilians were forced by poverty to join pro-Indonesian militias.

Ati Nurbaiti, Dili – A Timor Leste government official who said he was once a "double agent" in East Timor's resistance movement and the Indonesian Military, claimed offers of financial

Jakarta – Transsexuals are opposing the Jakarta regional government bylaw on public order that will soon be coming into effect.

Jakarta – In relation to his duties and responsibilities as a representative of the National Human Rights Commission or Komnas HAM in Papua, Albert Rumbekwan is a state official and can

Indonesia was responsible for the bloodshed surrounding East Timor's independence vote in 1999, a former pro-Jakarta militia chief told a commission set up to investigate the violence a

Dili – An East Timorese who was a pro-Indonesia activist during the tiny nation's 1999 independence vote said Wednesday that Indonesia's military should be held responsible for violence

Jakarta – The Home Affairs Ministry says it will study the newly endorsed contentious public order bylaw which, among others, bans beggars and buskers from working the city's streets.

Dili – About 50 people demonstrated in East Timor's capital today, calling for an international tribunal to try individuals who committed atrocities during the vote for independence fro

Chad Bouchard, Jakarta – Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao testified behind closed doors Monday on what he knew about the unrest that accompanied East Timor's vote to separate from Indonesia

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The joint Indonesia-Timor Leste Truth and Friendship Commission (CTF) is scheduled to hold its final hearing today, which could see Timor Leste Prime Minister

East Timor's government fears a jailed former minister, allowed to leave the country for medical care, won't return to serve his sentence for arming hit squads during last year's unrest

Jayapura, Kompas – The residence of the chairperson of the Papuan Representative office of the National Human Rights Commission or Komnas HAM, Albert Rumbekwan, was broken into by unide

Denpasar – East Timor's president on Friday brushed off a UN threat to boycott a commission charged with examining violence surrounding East Timor's 1999 independence vote, an official

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – With the Indonesia-Timor Leste Commission for Truth and Friendship (CTF) due to hold its final hearing Monday, critics are asking if its findings will have any c

Alice Coster, Jakarta – France's junior minister for foreign affairs and human rights has expressed hope the Indonesian government can make progress in the investigation into the murder

Rofiuddin, Sohirin, Semarang – Victims of the September 30 Movement/Indonesian Communist Party (G30S/PKI) affair will issue a summons against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono because

Jakarta – The nation's public must pressure legislators to ensure the public information bill works for them, said an information-focused NGO alliance Thursday.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen.

Kanis Dursin – Wearing a headscarf, T-shirt and jeans, Nurhayati, 21, appears very much like any other girl in Aceh.

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said Friday it is ready to use "strong evidence" to prove Soeharto illegally channeled funds from his Supersemar Foundation

Jakarta – The Indonesian Press Council condemned Friday state-owned telecommunication services provider PT Telkom for giving the text messaging records of a journalist to law enforcemen

Jakarta – Former President Soeharto is pleased with the Supreme Court's ruling of his lawsuit against Time magazine, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Ed Davies and Ahmad Pathoni, Jakarta – Indonesian human rights activist Munir Thalib, who died in agony of arsenic poisoning on a Garuda flight in 2004, made plenty of enemies in his ca

Jakarta – Indonesia's Press Council described the Supreme Court's decision ordering Time magazine to pay former president Soeharto Rp 1 trillion (US$106 million) as an "evil omen" for l

Jakarta – A lawyer for Time magazine in Indonesia vowed Tuesday to fight a Supreme Court decision awarding former dictator Suharto 106 million dollars in a defamation suit he filed agai

Jakarta – There remains a low rate of reform in the Supreme Court and the mafia still exists within its ranks, experts said Thursday.

Jakarta – The government defended its stance Thursday to exclude public access to state enterprises, saying there existed already several regulations around the transparency of state-ow

Jakarta – Chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights Ifdhal Kasim said Wednesday the commission was committed to continue investigations into the 1989 shooting spree at Talangs

US Embassy
Jl. Merdeka Selatan 4-5
Jakarta 10110

Dear Ambassador Hume,

On the third anniversary of the fatal poisoning of leading Indonesian human rights lawyer Munir, Human Rights First called on the Indonesian government to immediately and fully investig

Jakarta – A group of retired Army officers from Makassar, South Sulawesi, has flown to Jakarta to seek legal support from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kon

Hamish McDonald – A wealthy businessman will spend nearly $500,000 trying to get Asia-Pacific leaders to focus on human rights abuses this week.

Jakarta – Indonesian state prosecutors have failed to reach an out-of-court settlement with former dictator Suharto over a civil suit they filed against him in July, they said Tuesday.

Jakarta – Political activists are calling for a radical reform of the country's intelligence agencies to prevent extrajudicial killings and the suppression of information.

Jakarta – Police investigators defended Wednesday procedures used in the interrogation of a key witness in the Munir case who has now retracted his testimony.

James Balowski, Jakarta – New evidence has been presented in a judicial review of Garuda Indonesia pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto – who was acquitted last year for murdering renown

It is customary for the older generation to tell the younger generation a living memory of what the nation has been.

We owe Munir the activist, who died on September 7, 2004. Yet after almost three years, it is still not clear who killed him.

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The retraction of testimony by a key witness in the murder of rights activist Munir Said Thalib might not do great harm to the prosecutors' case, two prominent l

The trial reviewing the case of Munir's alleged murderer, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, will also determine the fate of some BIN (State Intelligence Agency) officials.

An important witness in the Munir murder case is being closely guarded by police. His background story is confusing.

The case review on the Munir case may implicate high-ranking officials from the State Intelligence Agency (BIN).

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said Friday it had further evidence to implicate exonerated suspect Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto in the murder of human rights activist Mu

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The defiance of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) to cooperate and help resolve the murder of rights campaigner and staunch military critic Munir Said Thalib i

Jakarta – A telephone conversation between acquitted murder suspect Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto and former Garuda Indonesia President Indra Setiawan emerged Wednesday as the latest in

Nani Afrida, Bener Meriah – Fatimah Inem Syam, 55, was just like any other woman in Aceh.

Fadli, Batam – Batam's new Barelang Penitentiary has only been open two months, but it is already overcrowded.