In Indonesia, legal liability has not stopped illegal, abandoned mines becoming deadly traps that now hold back the country’s future.
Human Rights
As Indonesia scales up construction of its new capital city, Indigenous people say they fear being displaced by the ambitious project.
Three women with machetes stood guard at their farm hilltop on Indonesia’s Wawonii Island, directing their blades towards the nickel miners working in the forest clearing below.
Two football club officials have been jailed over the Indonesia stadium crush last October which killed 135 people.
Now, a band of forest defenders, organized and led by women, is demonstrating that social forestry can stop this kind of destructive exploitation by engaging the communities whose lives are entwined with the health of the forest.
A new book on the revered Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who died in 2006, delves inevitably into the brutality that hatched Suharto’s New Order.
In January, an Indonesian and a Chinese worker were killed during protests at the Gunbuster Nickel Industry smelter. The smelter, owned by China’s Jiangsu Delong Nickel Industry, is in Morowali district, Central Sulawesi.
In December 2022, in West Java, Indonesia, news that a domestic worker had been held captive, tortured, deprived of food and forced to work long hours circulated.
Rosma Karlina is the founder and Director of Suar Perempuan Lingkar Napza Nusantara (also called Womxn’s Voice), an advocacy and care organisation serving women and transwomen who use drugs.
In June 1994, the Indonesian government banned three news weeklies –Detik, Editor and Tempo — triggering a nationwide protest against the government’s repressive regulations against newspapers.
Driven by one of the most spectacular scandals in Indonesian National Police history, Police Chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, an ally of President Joko Widodo, has used the affair to attempt to clean up one of Asia’s most corrupt law enforcement agencies, transferring hundreds of officials to new jobs and making other reforms as an entry point for significant change.
TikTok videos Nirwana Selle posted each day she worked at a nickel smelter in Indonesia went viral after her sudden death.
The murder trial of former two-star police general Ferdy Sambo has exposed the force to rare public scrutiny.
New research being conducted by the Partnership for Australia-Indonesia Research (PAIR) examines important themes of education, health, and safety in the family setting.
Indonesian Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Hamonangan Laoly urged various parties at the “Bali Process Government and Business Forum” to make collective efforts to overcome people smuggling and human trafficking.
The world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, Indonesia, which, while being forthright in defending the rights of Muslims elsewhere in the world, has been seen as passive in defending the rights of Uyghur Muslims.
