Indonesia: Bebaskan Semua Tahanan Politik
Grasi untuk 5 Tapol mengorbankan puluhan lainnya di balik jeruji(Jakarta) – Keputusan Presiden Joko Widodo memberi grasi kepada lima narapidana Papua mengabaikan puluhan lainnya yang masih di penjara...
View ArticleIndonesia Begins to Roll Back Degrading Virginity Tests
Indonesia said it will stop administering “virginity tests” to female aspiring civil servants as part of its admission process. The country’s Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo announced this...
View ArticleArvind Ganesan
Language English Arvind Ganesan is the director of Human Rights Watch’s Business and Human Rights Division. He leads the organization’s work to expose human rights abuses linked to business and other...
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View ArticleDispatches: A Start to Ending Indonesian Military Injustice in Papua
Something remarkable happened last week in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province.A military court convicted two soldiers of murder and aggravated assault for their role in the deaths of two civilians...
View ArticleDispatches: Indonesia Frees Papuan Political Prisoner
The Indonesian government released high-profile Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma, who spent 11 years behind bars for raising the Morning Star flag – a West Papua independence symbol. This raises...
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Dispatches: 3 Films to Watch on Oscars' Documentary Shortlist
The Oscars unveiled its shortlist of 15 documentary features this week. We were thrilled that the Human Rights Watch Film Festival featured three of those films this year. They share a strong cinematic...
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Dispatches: Shackling No Answer for People With Disabilities
“I used to be tied up at home with a plastic rope,” Rafi, a 29-year-old man with a mental health condition living on the outskirts of Jakarta, told me. “I had to go to the toilet on the spot, in the...
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US/ASEAN: Rights Should Top Sunnylands Agenda
Obama Should Press Leaders to End RepressionExpandLeft: Prime Minister Hun Sen has ruled over Cambodia for more than 30 years, using violence, intimidation, and politically motivated arrests and...
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Interview: Indonesia's LGBT Community Under Threat
Indonesia is in the midst of a government-incited meltdown about LGBT rights. In January, the country’s high education minister said he wanted to ban LGBT student groups from university campuses. Not...
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Indonesia President Jokowi’s Moment to Defy Impunity
Indonesia’s President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has an opportunity this week to outline clear, unequivocal policies in support of human rights in his highly anticipated Independence Day...
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Indonesia’s President Jokowi Silent on Human Rights
One key phrase was missing from Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s State of the Nation address today. True, Jokowi discussed issues ranging from Indonesia’s global competitiveness to poverty...
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Australia Continues to Be Shamefully Silent on Indonesia’s Human Rights Abuses
Here’s the glaring omission in Australian Attorney-General George Brandis’ list of issues raised with Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in Jakarta this month: human rights.ExpandGeorge Brandis...
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Indonesia: Court Reviews Anti-LGBT Law
ExpandIndonesian government officials made a series of anti-LGBT comments, resulting in proposals of laws which pose a serious threat to the rights and safety of LGBT Indonesians.(New York) –...
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Indonesia Religious Discrimination Harms Education Rights
Zulfa Nur Rohman, a student at a vocational public school in Semarang, Central Java, failed the 11th grade because of his religious faith. School administrators informed Zulfa, an adherent of a...
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Indonesian LGBT Activists Receive Free Expression Award
Last Friday in Jakarta two transgender people accepted an award from the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI). This was the first time the alliance had designated its freedom of expression award...
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Indonesia Should Reject Abusive Philippine-style ‘Drug War’
Indonesia’s National Narcotics Agency (BNN) head Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso yesterday called for police to emulate the Philippines’ “war on drugs” declared by President Roderigo Duterte. Waseso told...
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Indonesia Seeks End to Female Genital Mutilation
The Indonesian government has launched a long-overdue campaign to eradicate the cruel practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). The campaign, led by Yohana Yembise, the country’s minister for...
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Let People With Mental Illness Live in Dignity, Not in Shackles
I met Eka (not her real name) in 2014. After traveling for hours on pothole-filled road, I finally reached her village in Cianjur, in West Java. I went to her home, and her father pointed toward a...
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Indonesia’s Unrelenting Anti-LGBT Campaign
The Indonesian government has done it again.Continuing a campaign of anti-LGBT vitriol that began in January, the Youth and Sports Ministry has banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people...
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