Buckingham Palace has played host to some pretty unscrupulous characters over the years including Vladimir Putin, Hu Jintao and even Robert Mugabe. This week the odorous list is extended to include Indonesian Preside ...

Unlike Schapelle Corby, who has her government on her side, Karma is convicted for treason. This means he is seen as an enemy by the Indonesian state. Being a political prisoner, Karma does not feature much in both A ...

In an unexpected and unprecedented public criticism of, emerging US ally, Indonesia, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama quietly took Indonesia to task for human rights abuses in their battered province of West Pap ...

Official persecution, formal hate speech and impunity for those carrying out attacks against the maligned communities, have always been part of Yudhoyono’s programme for government ...

Sovereign borders are man-made, they are not static, they are dynamic. They are steered by the forces of time. ...

"The old regime dies hard. Indonesia has yet to realize the promise of democracy and human rights for all of its citizens." ...

This week’s deal should be congratulated but economic and ecological discussions should always be used as opportunities to raise human rights concerns. ...

Papuans have long complained that most of those funds have been siphoned off by civilian and military bureaucrats with little money left for improving the plight of Papuans. ...

“The Indonesian Government doesn’t want the media to have access — because the Indonesian Government is afraid for the world to know.” ...

Three soldiers were captured torturing suspected West Papuan separatists, often to death, in videos that widely circulated the web. ...