The Australia-Indonesia Centre’s newest research program is putting a focus on coastal communities to look at ways to tackle some critical economic and social gaps.
Human Rights
The Australia-Indonesia Centre’s newest research program is putting a focus on coastal communities to look at ways to tackle some critical economic and social gaps.
The UN Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary emphasise the important role of the judiciary in balancing the executive and legislative powers, and its essential role in protecting human rights.
The Indonesian government aims to evacuate at least 16,000 residents from villages around the active Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano that erupted and killed nine people and damaged thousands of houses, an official said on Tuesday.
Kuswoyo, a 48-year-old father of two, worked at an asbestos factory in Cibinong, Bogor, Indonesia, for 28 years. Each day, he would mix sacks of raw asbestos and polymers with his bare hands to create asbestos insulation thread.
Bali’s former governor, Mangku Pastika, has been talking to reporters about his reflections on how Bali has been changing over the last few years.
The incoming government in Indonesia must enter a new chapter for the promotion and protection of human rights as the country transitions under the leadership of Prabowo Subianto, Amnesty International Indonesia said ahead of his inauguration as president on 20 October 2024.
Rusmala Dewi was relieved to be reunited with her 11-month-old baby after they had been separated for more than a month.
During the dry season in the city of Makassar in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi, the state-owned power company PLN rations hydroelectric power due to low water levels.
Dimas and Bella had plans to earn some money and travel Australia when they arrived for their working holiday.
Poor young women in Indonesian villages are becoming temporary wives for male tourists in exchange for a bride price leading to online condemnation of the practice.
Some expect the change from the calming Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo to be seamless. Others fear his tough guy successor will drive out democracy from the world’s fourth most populous nation and return to a military-led autocracy – as in the last century.
A landslide set off by torrential rains has smashed into an unauthorised gold mining operation on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, killing at least 12 people as mud, rugged terrain and lack of telecommunications hamper rescue efforts.
Despite Indonesia’s national reforms to promote gender equality, entrenched regional patriarchal norms continue to obstruct progress.
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been released from captivity by rebels in Indonesia’s restive region of Papua and is in good health despite the 19-month ordeal, Indonesian and New Zealand authorities said Saturday.
Migrant workers say they were fired within weeks of arriving at UK farm after failing to meet impossible targets.
