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Pandemic has weakened protection of migrant workers: Komnas HAM

The COVID-19 pandemic has rendered Indonesian migrant workers vulnerable to virus transmission, according to the ...

Death penalty highest form of violence against women: Komnas Perempuan

The death penalty is the highest form of gender-based torture, discrimination, and violence against women, Chief of the ...

Effectiveness of death penalty not yet proven: Komnas HAM

Studies have shown that the effectiveness of the death penalty in deterring drug offenders and terrorists has not yet ...

Local figures playing key role in influencing societal tolerance

Local figures have had a significant influence on improving tolerance levels in Indonesian regions, research director ...

Legislator backs creation of team for resolving human rights cases

Deputy Speaker of Commission III of the House of Representatives (DPR), Sahroni, has voiced his support for President ...

Papua's human rights commission investigates Kisor terrorist attack

Papua Office is probing a recent terror attack on a military post in Kisor Village, South Aifat Sub-district, Maybrat ...

President's open-to-criticism message not well-understood by police

Member of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Beka Ulung Hapsara suspects that President Joko ...

Agrarian conflicts cast a pall on national development: HR Commission

Infrastructure development in the country remains shrouded in agrarian conflicts, according to commissioner for ...

Rights body urges President to reiterate human rights commitment

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said it hopes President Joko Widodo will reiterate his ...

Mahfud appeals to public to help build trust in rights body

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD has appealed to citizens and the ...

Indonesia continues investigation of Priest Yeremia Zanambani's death

A team of forensic doctors from the Hasanuddin University (Unhas) in Makassar, South Sulawesi, is tasked with exhuming ...

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Why upholding human rights matters in fight against Papuan terrorists?

Papua Office Islami Al Payage, and Secretary of the Papua Provincial Government Dance Yulian Flassy. One of the ...

Security personnel in Papua urged to keep exercising human rights

Papua Office Islami Al Payage, and Secretary of the Papua Provincial Government Dance Yulian Flassy. One of the ...

Police still probe Munarman's alleged involvement in terrorism

National Police's Anti-Terror Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88) investigators are still probing the involvement of ...

Densus 88 arrests former secretary general of FPI

Former secretary general of the now-defunct Islam Defenders Front (FPI), Munarman, was arrested by the Indonesian ...