#human rights violation

Collection of human rights violation news, found 122 news.

Minister calls for quiet investigation into victims of `65 incident

Coordinating Minister for Political, Security and Legal Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan has called on all parties and ...

Widjojanto files another pretrial suit

Suspended deputy chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Bambang Widjojanto has filed another pretrial ...

Indonesia stops sending migrant workers to 21 middle eastern nations

The government has decided to stop sending Indonesian migrant workers to 21 countries in the Middle East as part of a ...

Death row drug convicts hampering execution: AG

Attorney General M. Prasetyo said here Wednesday that drug convicts on death row are hindering execution by filing ...

Government provides annual fund subsidy worth Rp17 trillion to Papua

Vice President Jusuf Kalla affirmed that the government annually provides fund subsidy worth Rp17 trillion to Papua. ...

Indonesia Urged to Persuade UN To End Israeli Brutality: HRWG

Indonesia's Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) has urged the government to persuade the United Nations to stop ...

Prabowo`s team proposes reconciliation to resolve past human rights abuses

A national reconciliation needs to be built to resolve Indonesias past cases of gross human rights violations, Head of ...

Visually impaired demand rights to vote by secret ballot

Within the next 15 days, Indonesian people will cast their votes in the legislative elections, but those with visual ...

Indonesian army praised for transparency in investigating prison raid

Ten days after the shocking raid at Cebongan penitentiary by armed masked men who killed for detainees, the Indonesian ...

President sees penitentiary raid as attack on state authority

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the raid last week on a penitentiary in Cebongan in the district of Sleman, ...

Community leader calls for independent team to investigate Cebongan case

A Yogyakarta student community asked for the formation of independent team to be involved in the investigation and ...

House speaker disagrees with dissolution of Densus 88

House Speaker Marzuki Alie said he disagreed with the dissolution of the Densus 88 anti-terror squad, saying its ...

Mily chief: MoU to improve cooperation with police

Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) Chief Admiral Agus Suhartono said the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to be signed ...

PDIP rejects national security bill over potential human rights violation

The secretary general of the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP), Tjahjo Kumolo, has said his party has ...

Myanmar urged to stop violence against rohingya muslims

The violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has drawn serious attention from many parties including ASEAN ...