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October 11, 2016 Commentary

Let People With Mental Illness Live in Dignity, Not in Shackles

This man lived shackled in stocks, a traditional form of pasung, for nine years in a back room in his family’s home in Cianjur in West Java. When he was released, his legs had atrophied from disuse.
September 26, 2016 Dispatches

Indonesia Seeks End to Female Genital Mutilation

Government Should Also Prohibit Abusive ‘Virginity Tests’

A girl is seen through a fence before prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha on a street in Jakarta, Indonesia September 12, 2016.
September 7, 2016 Dispatches

Indonesia Should Reject Abusive Philippine-style ‘Drug War’

Police Anti-Drug Czar Lauds Duterte’s Bloody Policy

The head of the Indonesia's National Narcotics Board Budi Waseso (L) looks at a crocodile during a visit to a crocodile farm in Medan, North Sumatra, on November 11, 2015.
August 30, 2016 Dispatches

Indonesian LGBT Activists Receive Free Expression Award

Government Should Support Inclusive Democratic Values

Kanza Vina (left), a transgender woman, talks with Abhipraya Ardiansyah (far right), a transgender man, and Yuli Rustinawati (center), their colleague from Forum LGBTIQ Indonesia. Vina and Abhipraya received awards from an independent journalism union.
August 29, 2016 Commentary

Indonesia Religious Discrimination Harms Education Rights

A sign on an Ahmadiyah mosque in South Jakarta, Indonesia reads, "This building is sealed due to inappropriate usage." The mosque was closed by government authorities in July 2015.
August 23, 2016 News Release

Indonesia: Court Reviews Anti-LGBT Law

Criminalizing Same-Sex Relations Raises Privacy, Discrimination Concerns

A picture of an anti-LGBT demonstration.
August 22, 2016 Commentary

Australia Continues to Be Shamefully Silent on Indonesia’s Human Rights Abuses

George Brandis (center) was ‘the guest’ of the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Wiranto (right), during a recent visit to Indonesia.
August 16, 2016 Dispatches

Indonesia’s President Jokowi Silent on Human Rights

State of the Nation Address Omits Rights Commitments

Indonesia's President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo delivers a speech in front of parliament members at the House of Representative building in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 16, 2016.
August 15, 2016 Dispatches

Indonesia President Jokowi’s Moment to Defy Impunity

Independence Day Speeches Need Clear Signal on Human Rights

Indonesian President Joko Widodo gestures during an interview with Reuters at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia February 10, 2016.
August 11, 2016 Interview

Interview: Indonesia's LGBT Community Under Threat

A picture of an anti-LGBT demonstration.
August 10, 2016 News Release

Indonesia: ‘LGBT Crisis’ Exposed Official Bias

Government Drove Discriminatory Campaign

A picture of an anti-LGBT demonstration.
July 28, 2016 News Release

Indonesia: Indicted General Unfit for Cabinet Post

Wiranto Emblematic of Impunity for Past Rights Abuses

Gen. Wiranto shakes hand with President Joko Widodo after the new cabinet ministers' swearing-in in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 27, 2016.
July 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Pakistan’s Death Penalty Hypocrisy

Government Seeks Death Row Mercy From Indonesia

Activists from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) carry placards during a demonstration in Islamabad, Pakistan on October 10, 2015.
July 27, 2016 News Release

Indonesia: Stop Imminent Executions

Death Penalty for Drug Crimes Violates International Law

Members of the Indonesian special police return from Nusa Kambangan island following the transfer of death row prisoners on March 4, 2015.
June 21, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Indonesia’s Blind Eye to Abusive Sharia Bylaws

A sharia police officer escorts women caught wearing tight pants during a street raid in Arongan Lambalek district in Indonesia's Aceh province on May 26, 2010.

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