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Indonesia "As If I Am Not Human" Abuses against Asian Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia
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Download PDF, 466 KB, 137 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Out of Sight Endemic Abuse and Impunity in Papua’s Central Highlands This 81-page report is the product of more than a year of research. The report documents daily abuses by police officers and other security forces in the mountainous and isolated Central Highlands area of the Indonesian province of Papua, located on the western half of the island of New Guinea. HRW Index No.: C1910 July 5, 2007 Download PDF, 433 KB, 81 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Protest and Punishment Political Prisoners in Papua This 42-page report documents how the Indonesian government continues to use the criminal law to punish individuals who peacefully advocate for independence in the eastern Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Irian Jaya (hereafter referred to as Papua). All the prisoners have been convicted for treason or spreading hatred against the government, for nonviolent activities such as flag-raising, or attendance at peaceful meetings on self-determination options for Papua. HRW Index No.: C1904 February 21, 2007 Also available in
Download PDF, 306 KB, 42 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Condemned Communities Forced Evictions in Jakarta This 115-page report describes the Jakarta regoinal government’s excessive use of force to clear out urban slums. It draws on numerous evictees’ accounts of government security forces beating or mistreating them before destroying their homes and possessions. Many residents say they were given so little warning before their homes were razed that they did not have enough time to collect their belongings. Others describe how security forces opened fire on communities and set buildings alight while people were still inside. The government of Jakarta justifies many of the evictions by claiming it is trying to ensure public order, remove trespassers from private or state land, or clear land for infrastructure projects. However, the government has used excessive force to conduct the evictions and failed to provide alternative housing or other assistance to the displaced. HRW Index No.: C1810 September 6, 2006 Download PDF, 2000 KB, 113 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Swept Under the Rug Abuses against Domestic Workers Around the World
HRW Index No.: C1807 July 26, 2006 Download PDF, 470 KB, 95 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Too High a Price The Human Rights Cost of the Indonesian Military’s Economic Activities This 136-page report is the most comprehensive account to date of the harmful effect on civilians of the armed forces' involvement in business. Human Rights Watch calls on the Indonesian government to ban all military businesses, reform the budget process, and hold military personnel accountable for crimes. HRW Index No.: C1805 June 21, 2006 Also available in
Download PDF, 710 KB, 140 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Tortured Beginnings Police Violence and the Beginnings of Impunity in East Timor This 60-page report is based on dozens of interviews with witnesses and victims of police abuse in East Timor. It documents excessive force during arrests, torture and ill-treatment of detainees by the National Police of East Timor (PNTL). Several people interviewed had to be hospitalized because of the severity of their injuries. HRW Index No.: C1802 April 20, 2006 Also available in
Download PDF, 540 KB, 61 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Always on Call Abuse and Exploitation of Child Domestic Workers in Indonesia This 74-page report documents how Indonesian children as young as 12 work 14 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, without a day off. They are also forbidden from leaving their place of employment or contacting their families. HRW Index No.: C1707 June 20, 2005 Download PDF, 690 KB, 78 pgs Purchase online Aceh at War: Torture, Ill-Treatment, and Unfair Trials The Indonesian government has been fighting an on-again, off-again war with the armed separatist “Free Aceh Movement” (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, or GAM) for more than two decades. After a brief ceasefire and sporadic peace negotiations in late 2002 and early 2003, on May 19, 2003, President Megawati Sukarnoputri imposed martial law and a state of military emergency in Aceh. HRW Index No.: C1611 September 27, 2004 Download PDF, 360 KB, 56 pgs Purchase online Help Wanted Abuses against Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Indonesia and Malaysia This 110-page report documents the abuse and exploitation that Indonesian female domestic workers experience at each step of the migration process. Most domestic workers are forbidden to leave their workplace and unknown numbers suffer psychological, physical, and sexual assault by labor agents and employers. Some migrant domestic workers are caught in situations of trafficking and forced labor: they are deceived about the conditions and type of work, confined in the workplace, and receive no salary at all. HRW Index No.: C1609 July 22, 2004 Download PDF, 541 KB, 91 pgs Purchase online "Bad Dreams" Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia Migrant workers in the purportedly modern society that Saudi Arabia has become continue to suffer extreme forms of labor exploitation that sometimes rise to slavery-like conditions. Their lives are further complicated by deeply rooted gender, religious, and racial discrimination. This provides the foundation for prejudicial public policy and government regulations, shameful practices of private employers, and unfair legal proceedings that yield judicial sentences of the death penalty. HRW Index No.: E1605 July 14, 2004 Download PDF, 707 KB, 137 pgs Purchase online Aceh Under Martial Law: Problems Faced by Acehnese Refugees in Malaysia In this report, Human Rights Watch documents the failure of the Malaysian government to offer protection and assistance to Acehnese refugees fleeing persecution and armed conflict in Aceh. Malaysia’s treatment of Acehnese in Malaysia falls far short of internationally accepted standards for treatment of refugees and asylum seekers. Statements by Malaysian officials suggest that the government fears that by granting protection to refugees it would open up a floodgate of asylum seekers to the country. Such fears do not justify the abuses of Acehnese in Malaysia that are detailed in this report, nor the Malaysian government’s policy of routinely expelling Acehnese, who face the possibility of summary execution, forced disappearance, torture, detention, or persecution upon return to Indonesia. HRW Index No.: C1605 April 1, 2004 Download PDF, 446 KB, 27 pgs Purchase online Indonesia: Child Soldier Use 2003 A Briefing for the 4th UN Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict On 19 May 2003 military emergency status was declared in the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province (known as Aceh). The Indonesian armed forces declared at the time that they had approximately 40,000 police and soldiers in Aceh, fighting an estimated 5,000 members of the armed opposition Free Aceh Movement (GAM). In June it was reported that the Indonesian police force had lowered the age for recruitment into the police force in Sumatra (where Aceh is located) from 18 to 17. January 16, 2004 Aceh Under Martial Law: Inside the Secret War This 50-page report documents violations of human rights and humanitarian law since the Indonesian government imposed martial law in Aceh on May 19 and renewed military operations against the armed, separatist Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, or GAM). Based on testimony from Acehnese refugees in Malaysia, the report documents the role of the Indonesian security forces in extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, beatings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, and drastic limits on freedom of movement in Aceh. HRW Index No.: C1510 December 18, 2003 Download PDF, 372 KB, 50 pgs Purchase online Aceh Under Martial Law: Muzzling the Messengers Attacks and Restrictions on the Media The Indonesian government has blocked Indonesian and foreign correspondents from covering the military campaign in Aceh, where gross human rights violations are taking place. Indonesia’s security forces and separatist guerrillas have intimidated journalists in the northwestern province.This 33-page report documents violations of press freedom in Aceh after the Indonesian government on May 19 declared a state of military emergency in the province and renewed its war there against the armed, separatist Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, or GAM). On November 6 the government extended martial law in Aceh, due to expire November 19, for another six months. HRW Index No.: C1509 November 26, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online A Return to the New Order? Political Prisoners in Megawati's Indonesia In this report Human Rights Watch looks specifically at non-violent activists who have been arrested, detained, and convicted under two groups of articles in the Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP) that criminalize "insulting" the executive and "sowing hate" against the government. Human Rights Watch remains deeply concerned that President Megawati is dismantling the fundamental rights to freedom of expression and assembly to spare herself and her government from public criticism. Instead of working to eliminate the discredited policies of Soeharto's New Order, Megawati's legacy may be their resurrection. (Bahasa Indonesia) July 10, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Without Remedy Human Rights Abuse and Indonesia's Pulp and Paper Industry Indonesian police and company security forces are responsible for persistent human rights abuses against indigenous communities involved in the massive pulp and paper industry in Sumatra, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Abuses include land seizures without compensation and brutal attacks on local demonstrators. Human Rights Watch said Indonesia's donors should call for action to end abuses and urgently needed forestry reforms at a key upcoming donor meeting. The Consultative Group on Indonesia (GGI), a major donor meeting convened by the World Bank, is scheduled for January 21-22, 2003, in Bali, Indonesia. Without Remedy: Human Rights Abuse and Indonesia's Pulp and Paper Industry, a 90-page report, extensively documents the underlying links between disregard for human rights and unsound forestry practices. Indonesia's pulp and paper industry has rapidly expanded since the late 1980s to become one of the world's top ten producers. But the industry has accumulated debts of more than U.S. billion, and expanding demand consumes wide swathes of Sumatra's lowland tropical forests. This land is claimed by indigenous communities, who depend on them for rice farming and rubber tapping. The loss of access to forests, together with companies' hiring from outside the province, has been devastating to local livelihoods, leading to violent conflicts. (Bahasa Indonesia) HRW Index No.: C1501 January 7, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Breakdown: Four Years Of Communal Violence In Central Sulawesi The violence plaguing Central Sulawesi today is a direct result of the Indonesian government's failure to punish the perpetrators of major attacks and protect communities in the province since 1998, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. An estimated 1,000 people have died and more than 100,000 have been displaced since violence between Christians and Muslims broke out in the Poso region of Central Sulawesi in December 1998. Following a fight between youths four years ago, Muslim and Christian groups mounted attacks on each other's neighborhoods and villages in repeated cycles of violence. Security forces failed to stop the attacks, and when they did act, they sometimes worsened conditions by firing into crowds and committing human rights violations. Many of the worst crimes went unpunished, and several subsequent outbreaks were tied to the lack of arrests for prior violence. The few trials that did take place produced inconsistent sentences and took place in a circus-like atmosphere that inflamed tensions further, Human Rights Watch said. An effective and unbiased deployment of police or military, with a justice system that could hold perpetrators accountable, could have ended the problem when it began in 1998, Human Rights Watch said. HRW Index No.: C1409 December 4, 2002 Download PDF Purchase online Indonesia Accountability For Human Rights Violations In Aceh This report examines the response of Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) to a massacre in Aceh that occurred in August 2001. Thirty men and a two-year-old child, all ethnic Acehnese, were shot and killed by a group of armed men who suddenly appeared on the grounds of the Bumi Flora rubber and palm oil plantation in Julok, East Aceh. After the killings, the men disappeared just as suddenly. The Indonesian army and police accused the rebel Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka or GAM) of responsibility; GAM insisted that the killers were members of the Indonesian security forces. To date, no serious investigation has taken place. On January 8, 2002, Komnas HAM agreed to establish a formal Commission of Inquiry into the killings, suggesting that some movement in the case might be possible. But as this report illustrates, that hope may be illusory. HRW Index No.: C1401 March 15, 2002 Download PDF Purchase online Indonesia: The War in Aceh n this report, Human Rights Watch called on both the Indonesian government and armed rebels in Aceh to protect civilians, saying both sides had been responsible for human rights violations. Human Rights Watch also called for the government to allow local human rights organizations to carry out fact-finding investigations without intimidation and to cease persecution of non-violent supporters of political change. Human Rights Watch called on the new government of President Megawati Soekarnoputri to move quickly to set up human rights courts to prosecute cases of serious human rights violations. The new report notes that the Acehnese rebel organization, Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM, the Free Aceh Movement) has tried to restrict free expression by threatening journalists who do not report GAM's version of events. It also looks at killings and unlawful detentions by GAM, as well as GAM's forced expulsions of ethnic Javanese. The report also examines the Indonesian security forces' role in extrajudicial executions, "disappearances," torture, and collective punishment. HRW Index No.: (C1304) August 1, 2001 Download PDF Purchase online |
 
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