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Jakarta — The head of the Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network’s (SAFEnet) Association of Victims of the Transactions Law (UU ITE) sub-division, Muhammad Arsyad, says that ITE law lies in wait for 99 percent of internet users in Indonesia.
This is because, he said, 99 percent of (...)
New draft bill, decades in the making, could also criminalise insulting the president and tightens abortion laws.
Indonesia is set to pass a new criminal code that could outlaw living together outside marriage, extramarital sex and insulting the president, among a raft of changes that rights (...)
The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) is urging the state to carry out a substantive internal reform of the National Police (Polri). This is because according to data gathered by the YLBHI and the Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) there were 115 cases of police negligence in handling problems (...)
The sudden death of BBC Indonesia’s Ging Ginanjar at 54 has sparked many public tributes. The grief isn’t just about the loss of a popular editor, Ging was known for the key role he played in bringing about press freedom for the world’s largest Muslim nation, as his colleagues Rebecca Henschke and (...)
Indonesia is an increasingly dangerous place for people defending the environment and their land, activists have claimed, with recent data showing environmentalists being the most persecuted activists over the past four years.
According to Protection International Indonesia data, about 80 (...)
Jakarta — The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) says that a Supreme Court (MA) verdict increasing the sentence against an activist who protested a mine in East Java and was charged with spreading communist ideas is an example of the law being used to silence activists or SLAPP (...)
Kristian Erdianto, Jakarta — Amnesty International Indonesia executive director Usman Hamid believes that during the four years of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo leadership the protection of human rights has gone backwards.
According to Hamid, the Widodo administration has given too much priority (...)
Anticommunist paranoia: Youth organization Pemuda Pancasila (PP) members are on guard in front of the Indonesian Islamic University’s Center for Human Rights Studies (Pusham UII) in Banguntapan, Yogyakarta, on May 8, 2017. They demanded that painter Andreas Iswinarno cancel his painting (...)
The authorities have so far tried to hide or destroy evidence of Government involvement in the poisoning of human rights activist Munir in 2004
Indonesian police chief General (Kapolri) Tito Karnavian has instructed Criminal Investigation Bureau chief (Kabareskrim) Inspector General Arief (...)
Representatives of all major local and international media outlets, including newswires, Al Jazeera, the ABC, and The Australian, were in attendance for the unveiling of a harrowing report entitled “Don’t bother, just let him die”: Killing with impunity in Papua.
The wider trend in Indonesia has (...)
The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) is reluctant to take part in the integrated team to investigate past gross human rights violations which is being touted by Coordinating Minister for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs, Mr Wiranto. The government plans to form an integrated (...)
Maria Catarina Sumarsih holds an umbrella during the 536th kamisan, a weekly silent protest in front of the State Palace in Jakarta, on Thursday, April 26. 2018. The protests have been held since 2007 to urge the government to resolve human rights abuse cases, including the 1998 Semanggi (...)
Muhammad Hendartyo — Executive Director of Amnesty International Indonesia Usman Hamid called on the government to implement the moratorium on the death penalty this year.
“It is time for Indonesia to impose a moratorium on all executions in 2018, as Indonesia’s first step in eliminating the (...)
Indonesia police ordered to shoot drug dealers to tackle ’narcotics emergency’
President Joko Widodo’s comments echo those of Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte, whose drug war has killed thousands.
Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, has told law enforcement officers to shoot drug traffickers to (...)
Jakarta. Eight years into his 14-year sentence, the murderer of the prominent human rights activist Munir Said Thalib has been released on parole, Indonesian media reported on Friday.
Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, an off-duty Garuda Indonesia pilot who spiked the activist’s drink with arsenic (...)
A museum dedicated to the memory of the famous activist strives to promote human rights awareness among the younger generation.
Human rights advocate and lawyer Munir Said Thalib was murdered almost ten years ago. He died on board a Garuda plane headed for Amsterdam on 7 September 2004. His (...)
Jakarta – United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Navanethem Pillay has called for a full investigations into all cases of gross human rights violations in Indonesia. Specifically, she urged the government to reopen the investigation into the death of renowned human rights activist (...)
“[Munir’s case] will be the test of our history.” Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
“What we should fear most is the feeling of fear, because the feeling of fear will destroy our judgement, our logic.” Indonesian Human Rights Champion Munir Said Thalib (1965-2004)
The Munir Said Thalib (...)
Indra Subagja, Jakarta — The University of Indonesia (UI) will not be giving permission for a concert event titled “Tribute to Munir” at its Depok campus in West Jakarta on February 20. Not surprisingly this has given rise to protests by the wife of the late Munir, Suciwati.
“Their reasons (...)
Rafiqa Qurrata A, Jakarta — The plan to eliminate Munir was reportedly hatched during a National Intelligence Agency (BIN) leadership meeting that took place in 2004. Muchdi Purwo Prandjono — who at the time was Deputy Chief V at BIN — was actually nothing more than the executor.
“That was (...)
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