Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-028-2016

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Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – The limited reshuffle at the National Police headquarters on Monday has immediately attracted the attention of members of the country's political and security circles, as i

Fedina S.

Venidora Oliveira – The National Parliament (NP) approved $28,931 million in the 2016 state budget to improve the welfare of members of the national police force PNTL.

Jayapura – Papua Police chief Insp. Gen.

Jayapura – Police on Wednesday seized ammunition, two government-issued firearms and an airsoft gun from two houses in Sentani, Jayapura regency, Papua.

Fedina S.

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa – A former Kuta police chief has been demoted for at least a year over a scandal in which a group of Melbourne men were forced by police to pay a bribe after they hi

Reports from Indonesia's Papua province say extra police have been deployed to a part of Puncak Jaya regency where three officers were killed in an attack late last month.

A prominent West Papua independence activist has questioned the credibility of the head of Indonesia's police over claims made against him that were later retracted.

Jakarta – Seven regional top cops have been replaced in a major shake-up of Indonesia's police ranks at the end of 2015, according to a Dec.

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti has apologized for the police's failure to respond to complaints from members of the public.

Jakarta – Indonesian Police Watch (IPW) revealed on Sunday that the number of police injured in 2015 had increased almost 40 percent, stating that the police had been injured in brawls,

Pekanbaru – The Pekanbaru City Police Narcotics Unit has arrested a police officer from the Meranti Islands Regency Police with initials IR on drug trafficking charges.

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) has urged the National Police (Polri) encourage police personnel to control their use of firearms while on assignment or off duty, to

Jakarta – A police observer has expressed concern over recent viral videos showing confrontations between police officers and civilians, recommending that the police encourage their fie

Palembang – The Muara Enim Police in South Sumatra have defended personnel involved in a recent shooting that wounded two Indonesian Army (TNI) personnel, arguing that their actions wer

Venidora Oliveira – The Security Sector Project Manager of the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) Naldo Rei said the National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL) has made significant progress in the

Fedina S. Sundaryani – A year-long internal survey conducted by the National Police has concluded that the West Java Police was the best performing provincial police branch among 31 nationwide.

Jakarta – The National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti said on Monday that he removed Adj. Sr. Cmr.

Venidora Oliveira – The Deputy Director of Mahein Foundation (FM), a local NGO that monitors the security and defence sector in Timor-Leste, Joao Almeida Fernandes urges the Community Police (POLKO

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Security forces in Jayapura have launched a manhunt for an unknown assailant who stabbed to death a soldier outside the main military base in the Papuan capital in the e

Jakarta – Indonesia's police chief has revealed that the removal of his controversial chief of detectives was being considered since at least mid-July, following a public spat with a highly regarde

Jakarta – Legislators plan to launch an inquiry into the chief of state-owned port operator Pelindo II in connection with the removal from office of the police general who instigated a corruption p

Jakarta – Loyalists of a police general best known for trying to undermine the national antigraft commission have been removed along with their commander.

Jakarta – There has been a flurry of remonstrations, but tellingly no outright denials, over reports that the controversial police general spearheading the campaign to undermine the antigraft commi

Michael Bachelard – Applying for a job as a policeman in Bali is not as simple as filling in a form. You may need to pay $50,000 or more just to be hired.

Denpasar – Seven Balinese police officers will go on trial for extortion after an investigation confirmed they received a bribe from a group of Australians apprehended after hiring strippers at a b

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa – Kuta's police chief has denied police received a $25,000 bribe to secure the release of a group of Australian men apprehended after they hired strippers at a buck'

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) reported on Monday that from May to August it received several reports of extreme violence perpetrated by officers of

Jakarta – Calls are mounting thick and fast for President Joko Widodo to fire a controversial police general behind an ongoing campaign to undermine the national antigraft commission and its suppor

Jakarta – A number of activists united in the Civil Society Coalition said on Thursday that the National Police had arbitrarily made use of laws to take revenge for the naming of a senior officer,

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The National Police have appointed Insp. Gen. Tito Karnavian, 50, the National Police chief planning assistant, to lead the Jakarta Police. He will replace Insp.

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The National Police have officially issued a decree allowing female police officers to wear the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, with their uniforms.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A policeman was assaulted and his firearm stolen during a fundraising event in the separatist eastern province of Papua on Thursday, Indonesian police told the Jakarta G

Manokwari – The newly formed West Papua Police are expected to recruit more Papuans as policemen, as part of empowerment program for Papuans.

Venidora Oliveira – The recent incident that took place in Sailari in Baucau District resulting in injuries to six police officers won't affect national security according to the Timorese National

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – A total of 119 police officers have been fired in the past year, but Indonesia's most infamous cop – Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo – is still on the payroll.

Venidora Oliveira – National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL) members are using service weapons to hunt animals, according to Member of Parliament Ana Ribeiro.

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has approved a nearly 30 percent increase in the operating budget for the National Police next year, to Rp 51.6 trillion ($4.2 billion), wi

Semarang – An activist has urged National Police chief Sutarman to immediately issue a regulation to abolish virginity tests for female police applicants.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Health Minister Nila Moeloek has expressed dismay over the virginity test performed on female police cadets, suggesting that virginity does not reflect a wom

Yuliasri Perdani and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The National Police has confirmed that the virginity test on female cadets is used to measure their physical fitness as well as their

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The National Police have admitted that there is a practice of testing the virginity of women who apply to be police officers.

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Young female police recruits in Indonesia start their careers with what's called the "two-finger test" to assess if they are virgins.

Nivell Rayda & John Curran, Jakarta – It is an ordeal 18-year-old Wina will not soon forget: undressing in front of 20 other women her age as medical staff at a hospital in Bandung,

An officer from the Nduga subprecinct police station in Nduga regency, Papua, First Brig.

Venidora Oliveira – A lack of adequate transportation is severely affecting the efficiency of the Criminal Investigation Service (SIK).

Estevao Nuno – The National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL) is overrun by gangsters involved in criminal behaviour, according to Member of Parliament David Dias Ximenes.

Venidora Oliveira – Millennium Development Goal houses are being used as police barracks rather than their intended use as homes for vulnerable people.