West Papuan activists have voiced disappointment that the issue of West Papua was not brought up at the Forum Leaders Summit in Port Vila.

No official decision was made at a special sitting of the upper house of the Papua provincial parliament to formally return special autonomy status to the Indonesian Government in Jakar

Jakarta – Indonesia is letting radical Islamists trample the constitutional rights of minorities, leading to inter-communal violence, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The prevailing violence being committed by police and military personnel to quell separatist sentiment in resource-rich Papua would cease if the centra

Fifty members of the United States Congress have called on President Barack Obama to hold Indonesia accountable for what they call slow motion genocide in the Papua region.

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Jakarta – An Indonesian student protester struck by a police car during a demonstration in 2008 filed a complaint with the National Commission of Human Rights in Central Jakarta on Thur

Jakarta – Jakarta Police said that a 15-second video that depicts a police cruiser hitting a student protester and flinging him into the air was faked in an attempt to defame the instit

Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – A student on Thursday reported police officers to the National Commission on Human Rights for a hit-and-run that happened at a street protest more than two years a

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Fourteen years after "Black Saturday" on July 27, 1996, when several democratic activists were killed and hundreds more arrested under then president Soehart

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The government has done virtually nothing to bring to justice those who 14 years ago launched a violent attack on pro-democracy activists that precipitated th

Jakarta Police have launched an investigation after a video emerged of a police car striking a student protester and sending him flying before speeding off – not because of the actions

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The nation's witness protection agency has begun assigning security guards and legal assistance to antigraft activist Tama Satrya Langkun, who was brutally assau

Zack Petersen – Putri Kanesia, a lawyer at Kontras, may not be at today's protest of renewed ties between the US military and the Kopassus special forces unit, which has been accused of

Jakarta – The National Commission for Children's Protection says it had recorded 1,826 cases of violence, sexual assault and incest against children across Indonesia in the first five m

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – An authority to adjudicate constitutional complaints will open the Constitutional Court's door for those wanting to contest rights-breaching regulation

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Families of victims of past human rights violations on Wednesday sought the assistance of the country's largest Islamic organization in pressuring the governm

Jakarta – Indonesia has yet not overturned many laws allowing torture – which the country must do as part of a UN agreement signed almost 25 years ago, a researcher says.

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People who committed war crimes in East Timor during Indonesia's 1975-1999 occupation are going unpunished because of a loophole in the country's penal code, Amnesty International says.

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – The National Commission on Human Rights has accused police in Mojokerto, East Java, of gross human rights abuses in their treatment of suspected rioters arrested d

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Justice and Human Rights Ministry plans to take action on reports alleging the torture of Ambonese and Papuan prisoners arrested by the National Police's

The Indonesian government has told the global rights watchdog group, Human Rights Watch, that it plans to address the mistreatment of political prisoners in Papua.

Papua – Filep Karma has served five years behind bars on a 15-year treason sentence for raising a banned flag in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province.

Phil Robertson – On June 29, 2007, a village teacher led more than 20 young men into an Ambon stadium in an unauthorized performance of the cakalele, the traditional Maluku dance, in fr

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Sunanda Creagh – Indonesian jails hold at least 100 political prisoners from the Papua and Moluccas regions, including some who were tortured, Human Rights Watch said in a report publis

Jakarta – The newly enacted information access law is exposing two worrying conditions – that Indonesia's excessive bureaucracy is an instrument of secrecy, and that the public is large

Jakarta – Witnesses and whistle-blowers are not sufficiently protected by the law, which is open to abuse and does not stipulate the need for risk analyses, experts say.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has acknowledged that the deliberation process of the 2009 Supreme Court Law bore procedural flaws, but it decided to keep the

Jakarta – The Indonesian Press Council is eager for the establishment of a regional human rights court so that Indonesia can achieve greater freedom of speech and better protect journal

Adam Gartrell – An Australian woman cleared of plotting to assassinate East Timor's top political leaders intends to sue the country's president for defamation.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The law championing access to public information was implemented a month ago is almost impossible to enforce because the government has not made available mu

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Representatives of nongovernmental organizations grouped under the Solidarity for Riau Farmers held an art performance outside the National Police Headquarte

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has confirmed the April 26 riot in Mandailing Natal regency, North Sumatra, was violent and has recommended

Jakarta – Lawmakers have acknowledged there are numerous problematic articles in the intelligence bill that require further deliberation.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Commission III on law and human rights has proposed a revision of a law that will give more power to the Witness Protectio

Armando Siahaan – A Protestant congregation in Bogor, which has been forced to hold services on the street after its half-finished church was sealed by the city administration in April,

Jakarta – Both Indonesian and international activists are pressuring the Indonesian government to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Dis

Ismira Lutfia – A cabinet minister has promised to sign and ratify an international convention to protect people from enforced disappearance, but critics say it will be meaningless with

A project to create a large agricultural estate in Merauke in Indonesia's Papua province may still to go ahead despite the President announcing a two-year moratorium on new logging conc

Jakarta – Indonesia's minority and religious groups remain vulnerable to violence and discrimination, says an Amnesty International report released Wednesday in Indonesia.

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – Can a nation protect its own children if so many of them are unaware of their own rights?

Dessy Sagita & Zaky Pawas – As the National Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday told police to investigate hard-liners from the Islamic Defenders Front for raiding and forcefull

Nurfika Osman – Calling on the government to listen to the cries of children across the country, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations on Tuesday detailed horror stories ranging

Jakarta – After 12 years of reform following the fall of Soeharto in 1998, Indonesia still faces many barriers in its efforts to uphold human rights, observers say.

Ulma Haryanto – The National Commission on Human Rights on Friday blasted the Bogor Police and administration for failing to protect the rights of the GKI Yasmin congregation to practic

Radot Gurning & M Irham, Papua – Indonesia is often hailed as the country with the greatest freedom of speech in Asia.