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Rights body to push for OPCAT in meeting with President

Chief of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has said he will meet President Joko Widodo soon to ...

Sexual violence cases mostly started in private scope: Official

Sexual violence cases in Indonesia, especially against women, largely constituted those occurring in the private ...

Happy Teachers' Day

A teacher has a huge influence on our lives, and without one we may not see any of the success we currently enjoy. It ...

Five prison officers probed for undue disciplinary actions

The Law and Human Rights Office in Yogyakarta has questioned five officers of the Yogyakarta narcotics prison for ...

Death penalty is worst-case scenario of discrimination against women

Death penalty on women is one of the catalysts of violence and gender-based discrimination against womankind, ...

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 ...

Opinion

The Aggravating state of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir

Nelson Mandela once said, “to deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity”. This is ...

Sexual violence bill can offer hope to victims of abuse

For GH, a sexual violence survivor, the trauma of further harassment after reporting the assault has been unimaginably ...

Penal Code fails to adequately protect sexual assault victims

The Penal Code (KUHP) does not yet provide adequate protection to women victims of sexual violence, Commissioner of the ...

Bingki village head survives Papuan terrorists' shooting: police

Bingki Village Head Obaja Nang survived a fatal shooting that several armed Papuan terrorists carried out during their ...

Three wardens quizzed over inmate deaths at Merauke prison

Police have interrogated three wardens over a clash that reportedly led to the death of two inmates at the Merauke ...

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 ...

Torture by security forces not normal, needs to be criminalized: LPSK

The Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) has highlighted a recurring trend in cases of torture committed by ...

Police detain Hanura politician Ambroncius Nababan

A day after he was named a suspect for allegedly posting racist remarks against a noted Papuan human rights defender on ...

Ambroncius Nababan named suspect after posting racist content: police

Indonesian police’s cybercrime investigators have named People’s Conscience Party (Hanura) politician ...