Kontras Urges Jokowi to Revoke Parole for Munir Muderer
Jakarta. One of Indonesia’s most prominent human rights groups has called on President Joko Widodo to revoke a parole order which allowed the murderer of activist Munir Said Thalib to walk free. The...
View ArticlePolice Will Not Reopen Investigation Into Munir Assassination: Sutarman
Jakarta. National Police Chief Gen. Sutarman said on Wednesday that the police would not reopen the investigation of the 2004 assassination of Munir Said Thalib — disappointing supporters of the slain...
View ArticleInto Thin Air: Southeast Asia’s Growing Ranks of Disappeared
Two years after Sombath Somphone vanished, the Laotian activist’s wife says his abductors enjoy impunity –- an ugly reality across a region where powerful business interests and murky state actors...
View ArticleHard-Line Islamic Group Storms UGM Student Screening of ‘Senyap’
Yogyakarta. A screening of Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Look of Silence” documentary on Indonesia’s communist purge of 1965-66 at Gadjah Mada University’s School of Social and Political Sciences was...
View ArticleEditorial: Papua Probe Shows Jokowi’s True Colors
Joko Widodo was always going to be the president that his predecessors were not, from his man-of-the-people ways to his love of heavy metal. This past weekend, he again demonstrated the quality that...
View ArticleAustralia Seeks Last-Ditch Deal to Save Pair From Execution in Indonesia
Sydney. Australia is pursuing a last-ditch deal with Indonesia to save two of its citizens from imminent execution on drugs charges, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Thursday, in a case that...
View ArticleMinister to Investigate Age of Death Row Convict Whom Activists Say Is Juvenile
Cilacap, Central Java. Minister for Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Yohana Yambise said on Wednesday she would cancel the death penalty for a teenager convicted of murder if he were found to...
View ArticleThe Hague Dedicates Street Name To Slain Rights Defender Munir
Jakarta. Amnesty International has welcomed naming of a street in The Hague after the slain Indonesian human rights defender Munir Said Thalib, the rights organization said in a press release....
View ArticleFlurry of Activity Signals Executions Are Imminent
Jakarta. Indonesia has asked foreign embassies to send representatives to a maximum security prison ahead of the expected execution of 10 drug convicts, although an official 72-hour notice of execution...
View ArticleEditorial: Do the Right Thing and Show Mercy, President Jokowi
A day that no rational, compassionate human being could ever wish for appears to be at hand: the day that 10 fellow human beings, nine of them foreign nationals, are gunned down in a hail of bullets...
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