The New Zealand foreign minister, Murray McCully, says he welcomes an announcement by the Indonesian government of a full…

The Australian Prime Minister will visit Indonesia on the 1 and 2 November to d iscuss ways to further strengthen the bilateral relationship and…

Erwida Maulia and Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered a "thorough investigation" of a controversial video of…

The New Zealand-based Indonesia Human Rights Committee is again questioning New Zealand's training of Indonesian police in Papua…

An international lawyers organisation says it hopes Indonesia will identify and punish those responsible for the torture of two Papuan…

Jerry Omona – The Papuan Caucus in the Indonesian Parliament has strongly condemned the burning down of dozens of houses and churches in the…

Karishma Vaswani, Jakarta – Indonesia has admitted that the men seen torturing Papuan villagers in a video uploaded on the internet earlier this…

Jo Adetunji – The Indonesian government today confirmed that a graphic video showing scenes of torture by Indonesian soldiers on native Papuans…

Sara Sidner, Jakarta – A thin man with graying hair lies on his back, completely naked on a dusty road. His legs and arms are bound and his body…

Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) says it will launch an investigation into reports of rights violations committed by…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A National Mandate Party (PAN) politician has urged for an immediate probe into torture allegedly…

The grotesque torture shown in this video demands an immediate and credible investigation, not the whitewash of an internal military…

Nivell Rayda, Armando Siahaan & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – Amid an international outcry over alleged human rights abuses in Papua by security…

Jakarta – Amnesty International on Wednesday demanded Indonesia investigate allegations of torture by security forces in restive Papua province.…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The torture of a Papuan man by Indonesian security forces, depicted in a video that emerged this week, is not surprising and…

Nivell Rayda & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A volley of international criticism was unleashed at Indonesia on Monday over a video…

AI Index: PRE01/350/2010

The Indonesian government should initiate an independent investigation into reports of torture and other ill…

Ismira Lutfia & Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Minister of Justice and Human Rights Patrialis Akbar declined comment on an Internet video that…

Jakarta – Legislators and human rights activists have urged the government to verify the authenticity of a video that appears to show men in…

A new video shows the torture of helpless men in the Indonesian-ruled territory of West Papua. Monitoring groups are already describing the…

19 October, 2010

The Right Hon. William Hague, MP
Foreign Secretary,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
King Charles Street,
…

IHRC has sent an urgent fax communication to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Murray McCully, urging him to respond to the leaked video evidence of…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – A graphic and disturbing video shows a Papuan man being poked in the genitals with a fiery stick as he is interrogated by a…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives said Monday it would question Indonesian Military (TNI) Chief Adm. Agus Suhartono over an…

Jakarta – Indonesian police said Monday they would investigate fresh reports of torture by security forces against civilians in restive Papua…

AHRC-PRL-021-2010

Hong Kong – The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received video footage from sources in West Papua, who…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Markus Makur, Jayapura/Timika – Environmentalists insisted Thursday that the fatal flash floods in Wasior district in West…

Camelia Pasandaran, Farouk Arnaz & Fidelis E. Satriastanti, Jakarta – The government aims to speed up development of two economic clusters of…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Regional Representatives Council (DPD) will host a meeting between ministers and Papuan leaders on Monday to break…

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – After denying that the deadly flash floods in Wasior, West…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Red Cross have blamed "miscommunication" among emergency authorities for sending relief aid to the devastated town of…

Fidelis E Satriastanti – A Papuan tribe fighting over its customary rights to land in court against US mining giant Freeport McMoRan on Monday…

AWPA (Sydney) has written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard urging that as Australia is one of the best resourced countries in the region we should…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-162-2010

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Police in Wamena, Papua killed Ismail Lokobal, fired near fatal shots at…

Manokwari – The death toll from flash floods in eastern Indonesia has risen to 110 with bodies still lying unclaimed in the mud four days after…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti & Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Activists on Friday blamed environmental degradation and forest conversions for the…

Jayapura – US ambassador to Indonesia Scot Marciel reiterated his country's full support for Papua as part of the integrated nation of…

Wasior, West Papua – The remote Indonesian town of Wasior was a scene of devastation on Wednesday, with bodies lying unclaimed in the debris of…

Nivell Rayda & Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – As calls for independence in Papua and West Papua intensify, leaders in the restive provinces…

A spokesman for Vanuatu's Prime Minister Edward Natapei has confirmed he did not raise the issue of the status of Indonesia's Papua…

Timika – One man was killed and at least three injured on Monday in a clash between Indonesian police and dozens of locals over a security check…

In the past week, two local newspapers in Jayapura have published reports claiming that a number of countries have expressed their support for a…

The United States has called for Indonesia to move forward on autonomy in its Papua region and insisted it would not overlook human…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives urged the government on Tuesday to establish information commission offices across Indonesia in…

Just weeks after it was revealed that members of the Indonesian counter-terrorism unit Detachment 88 was accused of the torture of activists in…

Camelia Pasandaran & Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has dispatched his three coordinating ministers and their…

American Samoa's US congressman, Faleomavaega Eni Faleomavaega says the Pacific should not turn its back on the Indonesian region of…

Jayapura – A new detachment of 140 Mobile Brigade personnel from Bogor, West Java, has been dispatched to Puncak Jaya.

The…

Serious concerns have been raised in the United States about the treatment of West Papuans under Indonesian rule. For the first time a US Congress…

Geoffrey Bell – New Zealand needs to follow the "Bougainville solution" and facilitate peaceful dialogue between representatives of Indonesia and…