Human Rights, the United States, and Southeast Asia

During an advocacy mission to Indonesia in April, HRW Advocate Mike Jendrzejczyk informed the press in Jakarta about a new proposal from the State Department to provide US funding, training and equipment to the Indonesian army that would circumvent existing human rights restrictions on US-Indonesian military ties.
When Mahathir Mohamad, prime minister of Malaysia, visited Washington on May 14, Human Rights Watch circulated a backgrounder on his government's attempts to use terrorism to justify a draconian law, the Internal Security Act, used to detain political opponents and others without charge or trial.