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All countries should find unified strategy for Myanmar: UN Sec-Gen

United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres encouraged all countries to seek a unified strategy to overcome ...

Foreign Minister underscores importance of strengthening AICHR's work

Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi, during the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Interface with the ASEAN ...

Rights body backs TNI chief allowing ex-PKI descendants to be soldiers

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has expressed support for National Defense Forces (TNI) Chief ...

Amal Clooney to speak at APEC CEO Summit 2021

Amal Clooney, an award-winning lawyer, who specializes in international law and human rights, will deliver a keynote ...

Use of violence in Myanmar unacceptable: Foreign Minister

The Myanmar military's use of violence against anti-coup protesters is unacceptable, Indonesian Foreign Minister ...

Ministry: See no urgency to evacuate Indonesians from Myanmar

The Foreign Ministry has said it sees no urgency to evacuate Indonesian nationals from Myanmar in the wake of ...

Regional lawmakers urge Myanmar military to adopt 3-pronged approach

Lawmakers throughout Southeast Asia on Tuesday called upon the Myanmar military to promptly stop their campaign of ...

PAN deplores Polri's treatment meted out to KAMI activists

Guspardi Gaus, Indonesian House of Representatives' (DPR's) PAN faction member, bemoaned the National ...

816 security personnel deployed in Jayapura as precautionary measure

Some 816 police and military personnel are on standby in areas around Jayapura, Papua, as a precautionary measure ...

Seven Papuans tried in Balikpapan are not political prisoners: police

Indonesia's National Police spokesman, Inspector General Argo Yuwono, dismissed a claim that seven Papuan youths, ...

Papua Police refutes lawyer's report on political prisoners

Papua Police rejected a report detailing deaths of 57 political prisoners and 243 civilians in Papua since December ...

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Ex-political detainees in Buru envision ideal leader

News Feature : Harto Wiyono, 71, was picked up by Civil Service Police Unit members while out in the fields on grounds ...

Ethiopia declares state of emergency

Ethiopia announced a state of emergency on Friday (Feb. 16) after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Thursday ...

After Castro`s death, dissidents see changes ahead

Now that Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro is dead, one of his most prominent critics says he sees big economic ...

Discourse on Papua dialogue restarts

After about a two-year hiatus, the discourse regarding the Jakarta-Papua dialogue to seek a peaceful solution to the ...